The results of the 2026 First-Term Call of the TÜBİTAK 1001 - Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program, which aims to support high-quality research and contribute to Türkiye’s scientific and technological capacity, have been announced. A total of 10 research projects submitted by Boğaziçi University faculty members have been selected for funding.

Covering a broad interdisciplinary spectrum, from psychology and engineering to economics and the life sciences, the funded projects and their principal investigators are listed below:

• Assoc. Prof. İnci Ayhan (PSY) - "The Impact of Protective Tools on Aversive Affordances in Virtual Reality”
• Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Gökçe Baydoğan (IE) - "Scalable Perfect Graph Recognition for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization: Structure-Aware Graph Neural Networks (GNN-PERFECT)"
• Prof. Ceyhun Elgin (EC) - "Minimum Wage, Unemployment, and Public Sector Employment: The Role of the Informal Economy"
• Assoc. Prof. Bekir Burçay Erus (EC) - "The Impact of Public Health Insurance Premium Debt on Healthcare Access in Türkiye and Perceptions of Mandatory Insurance"
• Asst. Prof. Ayşegül Göğüş (EQE) - "Quantitative Evaluation of the Effects of Design Approach and Performance Targets on Cost, Post-Earthquake Loss, Recovery, and Embodied Carbon in High-Rise Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Residential Buildings"
• Asst. Prof. Emine Kazanç (MBG) - " Mapping Treatment Response and Resistance Mechanisms in Ovarian Cancer Using Patient-Derived Tumor-Immune Organoid Models and Spatial Multi-Omics Integration"
• Prof. Mutlu Koca (EE) - "Secure Age of Information in Next-Generation Communication Systems"
• Asst. Prof. Emre Kuşakçı (PHYS) - "Physical Regulation of Kinesin and Dynein Motor Motility by Microtubule Curvature"
• Prof. Amitav Sanyal (CHEM) - “Synthesis of Cyclodextrin-Cored Star Polymers via Core-First and Arm-First Strategies and Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticle Systems”
• Assoc. Prof. Güneş Ünal (PSY) - "The Role of Target-Specific Ventral Pallidum GABAergic Neurons in Motivation and Decision-Making Processes"

The Boğaziçi University Project Office sincerely congratulates all faculty members whose achievements contribute to our research university vision and wishes them every success in the implementation of their projects.