04/03/2022
Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Basic Sciences faculty member Dr. Ayça BAL ÖZTÜRK's project titled ‘’Development of New Generation DOPA-Modified, Antibacterial and Hemostatic Injectable Surgical Tissue Adhesives to Prevent Air Leakage After Lung Surgery’’ is supported within the scope of TÜBİTAK 1001 - Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program. The project will be carried out interdisciplinary; Assoc. Dr. Gökçen Yaşayan and Assist. Prof. Emine Alarcin from Marmara University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Assoc. Dr. Işık Perçin Demirçelik from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology; Tomris Çetin Gülşen, M.D. from University of Health Sciences, Sultan Abdülhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Department of Thoracic Surgery.
In the project, it is aimed to develop a new generation tissue adhesive with a direct and simple method in order to prevent air leaks that may occur due to lung surgery. It is expected that the project will meet the needs of the clinic by bringing a new approach to the prevention of air leaks after lung surgery by filling the gap in the literature.
Istinye University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Department of Software Engineering Faculty Member Dr. Buse Yılmaz's TÜBİTAK 3501 project titled Graph Transformation and Customized Code Generation for Sparse Triangle Matrix Solution was found eligible to be supported.
For sparse linear algebra systems, the Sparse Sub-Triangle Matrix Solution (SUMÇ), the building block for many numerical solution systems, such as direct or iterative methods and the LU, QR, and Cholesky sparse matrix decomposition methods, accounts for a significant portion of the total execution time. Methods of parallelizing SAUMÇ have been extensively studied in the past; however, this remains a formidable problem even in today's highly parallel and specialized architectures that do massive amounts of computation per second. The limited parallelism due to the dependencies between the computations, the irregular scale of the computations and the low granularity of the workloads necessitate an effective load balancing and synchronization mechanism approach. To find solutions to these challenges, the project aims to introduce a new method based on specialized code generation with graph transformation at its center.
Software Engineering Department Lecturer Dr. For detailed information about Buse Yılmaz, click here.