Funded Projects

(Received funding amounts are converted to USD based on the currency rate at project beginning date.)

Ongoing Funded Projects

• TÜBİTAK 1001 (PI: Ahmet Erten) Project 119E138 – Development of Microfluidic Cartridges Enabling 3D Cell Culture for Studying Tumor Spheroid Angiogenesis and Drug Response (2019-2022) Tümör Sferoidlerin Anjiyogenezinin ve İlaca Yanıtının İncelenmesi İçin 3 Boyutlu Hücre Kültürüne İzin veren Mikroakışkan Kartuşların Geliştirilmesi
• TÜBİTAK 1005 (PI: Berna Morova) Project 118F529 – A High Resolution Microendoscope Employing Structured Light Illumination Through a Fiber Bundle (2019-2021) Fiber Demeti Ve Yapılandırılmış Aydınlatma Kullanan Yüksek Çözünürlüklü Mikroendoskop
• TÜBİTAK 1001 (PI: Müjdat Zeybel) Project 117S440 – 3D quantification of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis with lightsheet florescent microscopy (2018-2020) Karaciğer fibrozisi ve sirozun şeffaflaştırma ve floresan mikroskopisi ile 3 boyutlu değerlendirilmesi
• TÜBİTAK 3501 (Carrier – Berna Morova) Project 117F348 – Developing Advanced Droplet Manipulation Techniques with Smart Surfaces for Lab-on-a-chip and Surface Applications (2017-2019). Akıllı Yüzeyler Ile Yüzey Ve Yonga-Üstü-Laboratuvar Uygulamalarına Yönelik Damla Manipülasyon Tekniklerinin Geliştirilmesi. Role in the project: Alper Kiraz – Advisor.
• TÜBİTAK – Pakistan Science Foundation Joint Project 116F442 – Milk Contamination Sensor Based On Optical Fiber Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy (2017-2019). Role in the project: Alper Kiraz – CoPI, Imran Cheema – CoPI.
• Koç University Seed Funding Program – FRET-Enhanced Fluorescence-Based Detection of Magnetoreception (2017-2019). Role in the project: Alper Kiraz – PI.
• KUTEM Seed Funding Program – Development of Optofluidic Waveguide Based Novel Photoreactors (2016-2018). Role in the project: Alper Kiraz – Co-PI, Seda Kızılel – Co-PI.
• TÜBİTAK 1001 Project 115F446 – Development of Hydrogen Sensors Using Polymer Microsphere Microresonators Containing Palladium (2016-2018). Palladyum İçeren Polimer Mikroküre Mikrorezonatörleri Kullanan Hidrojen Gaz Sensörlerinin Geliştirilmesi. Role in the Project: Principal Investigator.
• TÜBİTAK 1003 Project 115S120 – Development of a portable thromboelastometry device for evaluating the coagulation pathway (2015-2017). Koagülasyon yolaklarının değerlendirilmesi için taşınabilir tromboelastometri cihazının geliştirilmesi. Role in the Project: Alper Kiraz – Researcher, Özlem Yalçın – PI.

Completion Reports of the Past Funded Projects

• Koç University Seed Research Fund Program – Investigation of Red Blood Cell Deformability Using Hydrodynamic Trapping (2014-2016)

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator.

• Joint project funded by TÜBİTAK (Project No: 114F253) and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – The Use of Emulsion Droplets of Liquid Crystals as Largely Tunable Anisotropic Laser Cavities (2014-2016). Sıvı Kristallerin Emülsiyon Damlalarının Anizotropik Lazer Kaviteleri Olarak Kullanılması

  Role in the Project: Alper Kiraz – Researcher, Co-PIs A. Jonáš and P. Zemanek.
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBİTAK-Marie Curie Actions Co-Funded Brain Circulation Scheme 114C030 – Cavity Enhanced Spectroscopy with Droplet Resonators (2014-2016)

  Role in the Project: Suman Anand – Fellow, Alper Kiraz – Scientific Host.
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program – Biophotonics with Optofluidic Ring Resonator Lasers (2014-2015)

  Role in the Project: Alper Kiraz – Fellow, Xudong Fan – Scientific Host.

• TÜBİTAK 113F172 – Development of an OptoDigital Confocal Microscope (2013-2015) OptoSayısal Konfokal Mikroskop Geliştirilmesi

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator.
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBİTAK 112T972 – Development of Novel Lab-on-a-chip Optofluidic Waveguides and Flow Manipulation Methods Using Advanced Materials and Fabrication Techniques (2013-2015) İleri Malzemeler ve Üretim Teknikleri Kullanarak Yeni Çip İçinde Lab Optofluidik Dalgakılavuzlarının ve Akış Manipülasyon Yöntemlerinin Geliştirilmesi.

  This project is supported in conjunction to the COST action MP1205 “Advanced in Optofluidics: Integration of Optical Control and Photonics with Microfluidics”.
  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator.
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBİTAK 110T803 – Investigation and Development of Metal and Metaloxide Microdisk Resonator Inflammable Gas Sensors (2011-2014) Metal ve Metaloksit Mikrodisk Rezonatör Parlayıcı Gaz Sensörlerinin Araştırılması ve Geliştirilmesi

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator.
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBA GEBİP Fellowhsip – Fotonik, Polimer Bilimi ve Biyolojide Yüksek Çözünürlüklü Işıma Mikroskopisi Uygulamaları (2006-2009)

  Role in the Project: Fellow

• Joint project funded by TÜBİTAK (Project No: 111T059) and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – Development of Tunable Microlasers Based on Optically Stretched Microdroplets Suspended in a Microfluidic Chip (2011-2013) Mikroakışkan Çip İçinde Optik Esnetme ile Taranabilen Mikrodamla Lazerlerinin Geliştirilmesi

  Role in the Project: Co-Principal Investigator
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• European Commission Marie Curie IEF, Contract No. PIEF-GA-2009-252579 – Microdroplets – Characterizing Surface-Supported Microdroplets for Optofluidics Applications (2010-2012)

  Role in the Project: Alexandr Jonáš – Fellow, Alper Kiraz – Scientific Host more…

• TÜBİTAK 109T734 – Ultrahigh Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of Liquid Microdroplets Standing on a Superhydrophobic Surface Using a Tapered Optical Fiber (2010-2012) Süperhidrofobik Yüzey Üzerinde Duran Sıvı Mikrodamlaların İnceltilmiş Optik Fiber ile Ultrayüksek Çözünürlükte Optik Spektroskopisi

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• DPT – Quantum Cryptology Laboratory infrastructure project (2009-2011) Kuantum Kriptoloji Altyapı Projesi

  Role in the Project: Researcher
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• FABED – Su tutmayan yüzey üzerinde duran tek sıvı mikrodamlalar ile ultrayüksek çözünürlükte spektroskopi uygulamaları (2009-2011)

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBİTAK 107T211 – Single Molecule Tracing in Confined Geometries (2007-2009) Çevrelenmiş Geometrilerde Tek Moleküllerin İzlenmesi

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

• TÜBİTAK 105T500 – Applications of High Resolution Fluorescent Microscopy in Chemistry, Biology and Photonics (2006-2008) Kimyasal, Biyolojik ve Fotonik Uygulamalarında Yüksek Çözünürlükte Floresans Mikroskopi Yöntemleri

  Role in the Project: Principal Investigator
  Project final report in Turkish can be accessed from this link.

External Funding Agencies That Have Supported Our Research Projects

 TÜBİTAK