Honors and Awards

2021, Moore Inventor Fellow
2021, Fortune Magazine, Turkey, 40 under 40
2020, Donald and Delia Baxter Foundation Faculty Scholar (Career development award for assistant professors; 2 recipients selected from across Stanford Medicine)
2020, Finalist, Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
2020-21, Catalyst Award, Koret Foundation
2020, Fortune Magazine, Turkey, 40 under 40
2019, McCormick and Gabilan Faculty Award, Stanford University
2019, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP), Junior Chamber International (JCI), Medical Innovation Category
2019, Fortune Magazine, Turkey, 40 under 40
2018, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), CASI Award
2018, Rising Star in Biomedicine, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2017, Fellow, World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2017, Presidential Achievement and Recognition Award, METU
2017, 3^rd Place, Bay Area Global Healthcare Challenge
2016, Avon-Elele Magazine Women Awards, Finalist for Scientist of The Year
2015, Innovators Under 35 (TR35), MIT Technology Review
2014, Young Investigator Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection (ITI), awarded $25,000 research grant)
2014, A.T. Kearney Scholarship from the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin, Germany
2012, Finalist for CIMIT Student Technology Prize in Primary Healthcare (Awarded $10,000 research grant)
2012, Society for Biomaterials STAR Award
2012, International Affairs Travel Award, Brown University
2012, Graduate Student Recognition Award, Graduate School, and Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University
2011, Sigma Xi Honor Society, Brown University
2010, NSF Fellowship, 9^th International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System
2010, NSF RI-EPSCoR and Slater Technology Fund Entrepreneurial Fellowship
2007-2009, Fulbright Scholarship, ranked 1^st in arts-sciences field in Turkey
2008, Outstanding Fulbright Scholars in Europe, selected by McKinsey& Company, selected to participate in the “Bright Perspectives, 2008” event in Kitzbühel, Austria
2007-2009, College of Engineering Fellowship, Boston University
2003-2007, President’s High Honor Circle, METU
2003-2007, The Republic of Turkey Scholarship awarded for B.Sc. studies
2003, Ranked in the top 0.01% out of 2 million candidates in the National University Exam
2001, 3^rd Place in National Science Olympics in Turkey (in physics, chemistry and biology)