Best oral and poster presentation awards at BiTEG 2019

Postgraduate Researchers, Betül Aldemir Dikici and Serkan Dikici, from Sheffield Biomaterials and Bioengineering group at the Kroto Research Institute shared their research BiTEG 2019 with poster and oral presentations.

Betül Aldemir Dikici is in the final year of her PhD from 3dBioMat group and has been researching emulsion templated scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications in Dr Frederik Claeyssens’ group since 2016.

She presented her work with two poster presentations and won the best poster presentation award at this prestigious conference.

The beauty of working in science is that no two days are the same

Betül Aldemir Dikici PhD student, PhD Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Betül won a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education to undertake a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in Sheffield under the supervision of Dr Frederik Claeyssens.

Serkan Dikici, a final year PhD student from 3dBioMat group, delivered an oral presentation on the evaluation of the pro-angiogenic potential of 2-deoxy-D-ribose (2dDR) using established in vitro and in vivo angiogenesis assays and won the best oral presentation award for his presentation at the conference. 

I chose tissue engineering because it has a tangible impact on human beings

Serkan Dikici PhD student, PhD Engineering Materials

Serkan came to Sheffield from Turkey to carry out his PhD. His research includes developing synthetic and natural tissue-engineered constructs.