Dr. Cansel Vatansever, postdoctoral researcher at the Koç University İşBank Center for Infectious Diseases (KUISCID), and her thesis advisor Prof. Dr. Füsun Can, School of Medicine, have been awarded the ” Doctoral Dissertation of the Year Award in Health and Sports” by the Higher Education Council (YÖK) for their research “Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235 High-Risk Clone’s Unique Adaptive Response Mechanisms to Colistin Stress”. Their research focuses on a high-risk pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which causes severe infections in hospitals and is known for its multidrug resistance. This study discovered a unique iron uptake system in the ST235 high-risk clone that will facilitate the development of drugs against the bacteria.

Our Ph.D. student Zeynep Ece Kuloğlu has received Prof. Dr. Enver Tali Çetin Young Researcher Award with her study “Effect of BTN162b2 and CoronaVac boosters on humoral and cellular immunity of individuals previously fully vaccinated with CoronaVac against SARS-CoV-2: A longitudinal study” (1st place) in Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLIMIK) Congress.

Our postdoctoral researcher, Cansel Vatansever, was awarded with “Best Oral Presentation- 1st Prize” with her Presentation titled as “The virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pyoverdine system in ST235 clone and its role in its pathogenesis”, at the Turkish Microbiology Society Congress (TMC) held on 16-20 November 2022.

Our PhD student Cansel Vatansever’s oral presentation “Iron uptake mechanisms of high risk clone Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235” received the best oral presentation award (3rd place) in Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLIMIK) Congress.

Our researcher Özlem Doğan has received Prof. Dr. Enver Tali Çetin Young Researcher Award with her study “Virulence Determinants of Colistin-Resistant K. pneumoniae High-Risk Clones” (1st place) in Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLIMIK) Congress.

Our researcher Assoc. Prof. Şiran Keske’s photograph won the best snapshot award (1st place) in the competition of “Story of COVID-19 Pandemic With Snapshots” in Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLIMIK) Congress.

Our MSc Student Elif Nurtop oral presentation titled “ Phylogenetic investigation of SARS-CoV-2 isolates in Istanbul”  has been awarded Best Oral Presentation and Congress Scholarship of the Turkish Microbiology Society (TR-TMC 2020).

Our MSc Student Gizem Babutçcu’s oral presentation titled “Investigation of azole resistance in Candida parapsilosis isolates that cause candidemia by Sanger sequencing method”  has been awarded Best Oral Presentation and Congress Scholarship of the Turkish Microbiology Association.

Our PhD student Cansel Vatansever’s oral presentation titled “Whole Genome Analysis of Resistome in Colistin Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates”  has been awarded Best Oral Presentation and Congress Scholarship of the Turkish Microbiology Association .

Our PhD student Gülin Özcan’s oral presentation titled “Infectivity and Antibody Response of SARS- CoV-2 in Adult and Pediatric Patients”  has been awarded Best Oral Presentation and Congress Scholarship of the Turkish Microbiology Association.

XX. KLIMIK Congress, Antalya, 2019 by the study of “The mystery of hypervirulant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Yersiniabactin.”

XVIII. KLIMIK Congress, Antalya, 2017 by the study of “Nanotechnology aided design of endotracheal tube for prevention from ventilator associated pneumonia.”

Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Days, Istanbul, 2016 by the study of “Genetic and Clinical Promoters of Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii Infections.”

Book of 2015 in Public Health Category for the book titled “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Clinical Case Studies, Edited by, Onder Ergonul, Fusun Can, Lawrence Madoff, and Murat Akova. Published by Elsevier, 2014”