Current Funding:
- 2020 – 2023: EU Horizon 2020 Twinning Project
NEOMATRIX: Mapping the Neolithic expansion in the Mediterranean: A scientific collective to promote archaeogenomics and evolutionary biology research in Turkey (Mehmet Somel; Çiğdem Atakuman, Elif Sürer; with SU, IJM-CNRS and FORTH) - 2018 – 2022: ERC Consolidator 2017 Grant
NEOGENE: Archaeogenomic analysis of genetic and cultural interactions in Neolithic Anatolian societies (Mehmet Somel, Çiğdem Atakuman, Yılmaz S. Erdal) - 2023 – 2026: TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant
Leprosy in Anatolia: A paleopathology and archaeogenomic study (Mehmet Somel) - 2022 – 2025: TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant
Nicaean people and Byzantine warriors: A bioarchaeological study (Yılmaz S. Erdal) - 2022 – 2025: TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant
Anatolian Caucasian relations from the Neolithic to the Middle Ags: An archaeogenomic study on the human remains of anatolia and Azerbaijan (Füsun Özer) - 2021 – 2024: TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant
Investigation of the population history of the Roman Era coastal and inland societies in Anatolia from an archaeogenomics perspective (N. Ezgi Altınışık)
Past Funds & Support:
- 2020 – 2021: EMBO Short Term Fellowship (Dilek Koptekin)
- 2019 – 2019: EMBO Short Term Fellowship (Z. Gözde Turan)
- 2018 – 2019: EMBO Short Term Fellowship (Reyhan Yaka)
- 2017 – 2020: TÜBİTAK 1001 Grant
Neolithic human ancient genomics (METU aDNA lab, Yılmaz S. Erdal & Mihriban Özbaşaran) - 2015 – 2018: ERANET-RUS Multilateral Grant
Single cell genomics of neurodegeneration (Mehmet Somel, Thomas Arendt) - 2015 – 2016: TÜBİTAK 1002 Grant
Aging brain transcriptomics (Melike Dönertaş & Hamit İzgi) - 2015 – 2018: TÜBA-GEBİP Support
Ancient DNA work (Mehmet Somel) - 2015 – 2015: EMBO Short Term Fellowship (Gülşah M. Kılınç)
- 2015 – 2017: TÜBİTAK 3501 Grant
Neolithic human ancient genomics (Füsun Özer & İnci Togan) - 2014 – 2016: TÜBİTAK 3001 Grant
Ancient mtDNA analysis (Reyhan Yaka & İnci Togan) - 2014 – 2016: BAGEP Young Investigator Grant (Mehmet Somel)
- 2013 – 2015: TÜBİTAK 2232 Grant (Mehmet Somel, Tülin Yanık, Philipp Khaitovich)
- Since 2013: Multiple METU-BAP internal grants
- 2010 – 2012: Chinese Academy of Sciences International Cooperation Award for Young Scientists (Mehmet Somel, Philipp Khaitovich)