This year, 24 of our students with 14 projects participated in the International Regeneron ISEF Science and Engineering Competition representing our country. The 3 of our students who are owners of 3 projects won the grand awards given by the ISEF organization and special awards given by various organizations. Two of our projects that successfully represented our country won both the special award and the ISEF grand award.
Of the 24 students who represented our country with 14 projects in the 75th International Regeneron ISEF Science and Engineering Competition held in Columbus, USA between May 10-16, 2025; 3 of our students, the owners of 3 projects, won the grand prizes and special prizes given by the ISEF organization. Two of our students won both the special award and the ISEF grand award.
Our ISEF Grand Award Winners:
Ela Doruk KORKMAZ won the Fourth Place award in the “Cellular and Molecular Biology” category with her project titled “Investigation of Potential Anti-Cancer Impacts of Coffee Bean-Derived Exosomes Through Anti-Proliferative and Apoptosis Inducing Effects on Melanoma Skin Cancer Cells via Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling Pathway”,
Reyyan ÇİFCİ won the Fourth Place award in the “Chemistry” category with her project titled “Real-Time Wound Monitoring and Bioactive Healing Accelerator via Intelligent Biosensor Bandage: Carbon Dot Embedded Novel Grape Marc Hydrogel”.
Our Special Award Winners are as follows;
Ela Doruk KORKMAZ won the “Mary Kay Inc. - Ten awards of $750 each” special award in the “Cellular and Molecular Biology” category with her project titled “Investigation of Potential Anti-Cancer Impacts of Coffee Bean-Derived Exosomes Through Anti-Proliferative and Apoptosis Inducing Effects on Melanoma Skin Cancer Cells via Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling Pathway”,
Reyyan ÇİFCİ won the “King Abdulaziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity - Full Scholarship from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) (and a $400 cash prize)” special award in the “Chemistry” category with her project titled “Real-Time Wound Monitoring and Bioactive Healing Accelerator via Intelligent Biosensor Bandage: Carbon Dot Embedded Novel Grape Marc Hydrogel”,
İlhami ASLANSOY won the “American Mathematical Society - One-Year Membership to American Mathematical Society to each winner (7 winning projects, up to 3 team members per project)” special award in the “Mathematics” category with him project titled “Evaluation of Difficult Integrals Through an Equation Involving Fractional Derivatives”
TÜBİTAK Special Awards
In addition, our institution has been participating in the competition as an ISEF Special Award Organization since 2023, and as a result of the evaluations made this year, 5 projects selected in the fields of “Cellular and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy and Systems Software” were awarded the TÜBİTAK Special Award. Projects that receive special awards will be awarded 1,000 US dollars per project.
TÜBİTAK Special Award Winners:
In the field of “Cellular and Molecular Biology”, students named Maya Sarah Hammoud and Lara Hammoud from the United States with project titled “Decoding ASXL3: A Novel Predictor of the Spectrum, Onset, and Treatment for Neurodevelopmental Disorders”,
In the field of “Chemistry” students named Nichaphat Aueng-Aree, Chayada Wisuttirattanamanee and Pongpop Sangsawang from Thailand with project titled “Photoswitchable Wetting Properties in Bifunctional Metavanadate-Promoted Chitosan/Cassava Biopolymer Films: A Mechanistic Study”,
In the field of “Mathematics”, a student named Liqian Ying from Singapore with project titled “Make24: Elegant Elementary Bounds for a Numbers Game”,
In the field of “Physics and Astronomy”, a student named Tristan Rei Cao from the United States with project titled “Emergent Quantum Inductance in a Chiral Orbital Current State: Next-Generation Quantum Materials and Applications”,
In the “Systems Software” category, a student named Ram Sivaraman from the United States with project titled “HM-Detect: Murmur Detection and Classification Methodology Using A Novel C^2-LSTM Architecture for Multi-Modal Signals.”
was deemed worthy of the special award.
The International Regeneron ISEF Science and Engineering Fair is the world's largest science competition organized by the Society for Science & the Public, in collaboration with many other corporate and academic sponsors, at the high school level in various cities in the United States. 1,657 students with 1,304 projects from 62 countries participated in the competition, which was held for the 75th time this year in Columbus, USA.
