Support from the European Union for our Faculty Member's ClickBioGel Project

by Aybeniz Seyhan | Jan 08, 2024

“Bio-based Hydrogels by Click Chemistry for Cartilage Tissue Engineering (ClickBioGel)” Project was accepted within the scope of the Horizon Europe Program.

Within the scope of the Horizon Europe Program Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Scholarship and Research Circulation Supports (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 call, our faculty member Dr. Özlem İpek Kalaoğlu Altan's project titled "Bio-based Hydrogels by Click Chemistry for Cartilage Tissue Engineering", acronym "ClickBioGel", was entitled to be supported by the European Commission.

The project aims to synthesize hydrogels with improved mechanical, antimicrobial and bio-adhesive properties through click chemistry using bio-based polymers and additives and to use them in the repair of cartilage damage.

It will be held under the coordination of Politecnico di Torino and will be attended by Prof. The budget of the project, in which Marco Sangermano participated as a consultant, is approximately 190,000 Euros.

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Textile Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) is the first and the single one offering textile engineering education in Istanbul, and also comes first among the top textile engineering schools in Turkey. Its history could be traced back to 1955; the year in which the textile division was established in the body of Mechanical Engineering. The school gained its current name and independent status in 1983. Therefore, it is obvious that the Textile Engineering Department is fairly new compared to the history of İTÜ stretching back to 240 years.

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