Principle Investigator

Prof. Dr. Duygu Ege

Duygu Ege was Humboldt Fellow in Biomaterials Institute at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

Duygu Ege has a PhD in Medical Materials from University of Cambridge and a MEng degree (undergraduate +master degree) in Materials Science and Engineering (First Class Honours) from Imperial College, London. Her research on production and characterisation of bone screws at ETH Zurich, lead her to receive the Centenary Prize from Imperial College, London (2009).

Her other awards include BAGEP Award of Science Academy of Türkiye (2025), Dorothy Hodgkins Scholarship leading to PhD at University of Cambridge, Best Podium Presentation Award by International Society for Ceramics in Medicine and IDEA League Grant for her research work at ETH Zurich.

Education

• PhD, Medical Materials, University of Cambridge

• BSc and MEng, Materials Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London.

Research Areas

The focus of our lab is multidisciplinary, including research on

• 3D printing of tissue scaffolds

• Bioceramics research (bioactive glasses, hydroxyapatite, and related materials)

• Next generation materials

• Tissue regeneration

• Injectable scaffolds

• Drug delivery devices

• Machine learning models for analyzing biomaterials data

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