Sabri Ülker Award For Future Science Leaders 2026
The Sabri Ülker Award For Future Science Leaders, presented since 2016 by the Sabri Ülker Food Research Institute Foundation with the mission of communicating scientific knowledge to society in the most accurate way, has found its recipient at a ceremony held in Istanbul.
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2024
Dr. Aydan Bulut Karslıoğlu, Leader of the Stem Cell Chromatin Group of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics based in Berlin, Germany, was awarded the Sabri Ülker Science Award for 2024. The award was in recognition of her pioneering work in the field of stem cell biology and embryonic development.
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2023
Dr. Böke completed a PhD in cell cycle control. This led to the discovery that two major phosphatases in the cell, PP1 and PP2A are under tight control and act in a relay to fine tune the controls of mitotic progression (Grallert*, Boke* et al, Nature, 2015). Her postdoctoral rese
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2022
Nilay Yapıcı is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University and a Nancy & Peter Meinig Family Investigator. Dr.Yapıcı graduated from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University, and worked with Dr Barry Dickson at the
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2021
Having completed her undergraduate education at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Associate Professor Elif Nur Fırat Karalar continued her doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and post-doctoral research at Stanford University.
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2020
Associate Professor Elçin Ünal, from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley University, built her scientific career studying the relationships between meiosis and aging.
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2019
Tamer Önder, received his BA in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Cornell University and his PhD in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently an associate professor at Koç University, a position he has held since 2012. He focuses on research into the molecular mechanisms
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2018
Ömer Yılmaz is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT and a gastrointestinal pathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School,
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2017
Ebru Erbay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey since 2010 and Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at the Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich, Germany since 2016.
Sabri Ülker Science Award 2016
Kıvanç Birsoy received his B.S degree at Bilkent University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, ranked 1st in the Faculty of Science. He received his Ph.D. in Jeffrey Friedman’s lab at the Rockefeller University (New York), where he studied molecular and cellular basis for obesity.
