Scientists from Türkiye and different international locations have been acknowledged for his or her work with awards delivered by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBITAK) and the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) on Wednesday.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted the awards ceremony on the Presidential Complex within the capital Ankara the place reputed figures of the scientific neighborhood and up-and-coming expertise have been awarded in a variety of fields.
TÜBA International Awards have been bestowed to professors Joseph Wang, Amnon Cohen, and Joseph Jao Yiu Sung. Wang, of the University of California, San Diego, who can also be an inventor specializing in nanomachines, biosensors, and wearable units, was awarded within the Science and Engineering subject. Amnon Cohen, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, whose work concentrates on Islamic and Middle Eastern research, was acknowledged within the Social Sciences Category. Joseph Jao Yiu Sung, dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, was awarded for his work within the Medical and Life Sciences class.
Professor Wang was awarded for “pushing the boundaries of development in health care systems with his work and contributing to the education of young Turkish scientists,” organizers mentioned.
At the awards ceremony, Erdoğan congratulated the 57 scientists who have been recipients of the awards. “Every accomplishment is a harbinger of new accomplishment. This is what the awards under the patronage of the Presidency aimed at,” Erdoğan mentioned. “Regardless of awards, we know that all our scientists work day and night for a prosperous future for our country. Awards are only a means for motivation and an incentive for our scientists,” Erdoğan mentioned.
Our nationwide know-how initiative guides our goal towards being on this planet’s prime ten economies. Political independence is feasible by technological independence. Science and know-how is a very powerful, environment friendly instrument for Türkiye to realize its targets. Value-added manufacturing, sturdy development, and sustainable welfare by a full of life science ecosystem. TÜBITAK and TÜBA are two establishments contributing to our know-how and science infrastructure by their extraordinary efforts,” he mentioned.
The president mentioned the federal government granted greater than TL 1.5 billion to three,734 analysis and improvement tasks previously 12 months by TÜBITAK, which concerned about 22,000 individuals, from researchers to college students benefiting from scholarships.
Erdoğan additionally gave the instance of China, whose success is attributed to what he referred to as the “contribution of young people who studied abroad to the country with the experience they gained abroad.” “We are taking similar steps through TÜBITAK and work both to help our youth to accumulate experience abroad and make Türkiye a center of attraction for Turkish scientists abroad, to reverse the brain drain through our incentive programs,” he mentioned.
