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The “Entrepreneurship Summit,” organized by the Entrepreneurial Engineers Club at our university, was successfully held with great interest from both expert speakers and students.

The article titled “Near-Field Signal Processing: Unleashing the Power of Proximity”, co-authored by Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Mete Elbir, faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istinye University, has been published on IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
We congratulate Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Mete Elbir and wish him continued success

İstinye University held the 2025 Spring Workshop program for students who wish to experience university life firsthand. The workshops took place on April 19–20 at the Vadi Main Campus and Vadi H Campus, where students explored both the practical aspects of education and the career paths that await them in the future—while also experiencing campus life.

The results of the “2209-A: University Students Research Projects Support Program” and the “2209-B: University Students Research Projects Support Program for Industry-Oriented Projects,” conducted by TÜBİTAK’s Scientist Support Programs Presidency (BİDEB), have been announced.

The article titled “Index Modulation for Integrated Sensing and Communications - A Signal Processing Perspective” , co-authored by Assc. Prof. Ahmet Mete Elbir, faculty member of the Electrial and Elektronics Engineering, our Faculty, has been published on IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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One of our faculty members of the Department of Mathematics, Asst. Prof. Dr. Doğa Can Sertbaş participated in the World Pi Day Mathematics Activities held by Aydın Adnan Menderes University on 13 March 2025.

Career journey in IT was discussed in the training programme organised by Sabancı Youth Mobilization.

In our Biotechnology Laboratory for gene therapy, Asst. Prof. Dr. Polen Koçak Denizci is conducting important studies on DMD and SSPE disease.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Zarrabi, one of our faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, was invited to Yuan Ze University (YZU), Taiwan Graduate School of Biotechnology & Bioengineering on 1 April 2025 to give a seminar on ‘Smart Drug Delivery Systems; Progresses and Future Perspectives’.

The projects of Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayca Z. İlter Tataroğlu, who continues to work within our Molecular Biology, Genetics and Protein R&D Laboratory, were entitled to be supported within the scope of TÜBİTAK 1501 and 3501.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics faculty member Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Nur Ay conducts intensive studies on the increasing number of cancer cases in the world and the immune system.

Within the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Asst. Prof. Dr. Aslı Kutlu, the knowledge required for drug design for rare diseases is produced in our Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics R&D Laboratory.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Doğa Can Sertbaş, one of our faculty members from the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, met with the students of the Türk Eğitim Vakfı İnanç Türkeş Özel Lisesi (TEVİTÖL) on February 11, 2025 with his speech titled “Probabilistic Method and Some Applications”.

The project team, including Lect. Burak Güler from İstinye University Vocational School Aircraft Technology Program and Mehmet Emin Postallı, our 4th year student from the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, was accepted to the “HAVELSAN AIJET BİGG Program”.

As the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, we came together with our prospective students at the Istanbul Congress Centre within the scope of ‘University Department Introduction Days’.

Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pınar Çakır Hatır came together with the students with a demo lecture.

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Assoc. Prof. Pınar Çakır Hatır, Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, is working on the development of targeted smart nanocarriers in our Nanotechnology and Biomaterials Laboratory.

An important collaboration was signed with Siemens Healthineers Türkiye.

Every year, 15 February is accepted as International Childhood Cancer Day in order to raise awareness and emphasise this point for individuals diagnosed with cancer in childhood.

Taking an important step in the field of engineering and technology, Istinye University signed a comprehensive cooperation protocol with FİGES A.Ş., one of Turkey's leading engineering companies.

In order to evaluate the digital developments in the field of health, the first of the ‘HospitalManager Workshops’ was held at Istinye University Vadi Campus Main Campus Congress Centre.

In our Nanotechnology and Biomaterials Laboratory and Biotechnology Laboratory, innovative approaches for the simultaneous diagnosis and treatment of diseases are developed by utilising the properties of nanomaterials.

As the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, we brought students together with 9 different workshops that both entertain and teach.

The UK-based university ranking organization, Times Higher Education (THE), has released its list of the best universities worldwide for 2025, in 11 specific subject areas.

The article titled "Sustainable additive manufacturing supply chains with a plithogenic stakeholder analysis: Waste reduction through digital transformation" has been published in the CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology.

We are conducting scientific research projects in collaboration with Bakırdere Research Group and İstinye University.

A cooperation protocol was signed between İzel Kimya A.Ş., one of the leading companies contributing to sustainability, and Istinye University at Istinye University Vadi H Campus on Thursday, 9 January 2025.

The project of Dr. Esmaeil Doust Khah Heragh, one of the faculty members of the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the Joint Funding Programme for Southeast Asia and Europe.

Assoc. Prof. Ahmet M. Elbir, a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Istinye University, has been elected as the chair of the Synthetic Aperture (SA) Technical Working Group under the prominent international organization, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).