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 MultilateralGrant Single cell genomics of neurodegeneration (Mehmet Somel, Thomas Arendt)