Major European Funding Support in Metrology for GTU Academic

May 15, 2026 - GTU Office of Press and Public Relations
 

— Assoc. Prof. Şule Şahin-Ün from the Department of Chemistry at GTU has become a project partner in the European Metrology Research Program-supported “Met4Metab” project.

— The project aims to standardize clinical metabolomic measurements in a way that is traceable to the International System of Units (SI), enabling personalized medicine to become part of routine clinical practice.

— In the large consortium coordinated by Germany and involving 12 countries, Türkiye is represented by GTU and TÜBİTAK UME, while the university will undertake the synthesis of qNMR internal standards.

Gebze Technical University (GTU) has taken an active role in the Met4Metab (Standardisation of Targeted and Untargeted Metabolomic Quantitative Methods) project, supported under the European Partnership on Metrology and expected to revolutionize clinical diagnostics. The project, in which Assoc. Prof. Şule Şahin-Ün from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, serves as a partner, has secured European funding, once again confirming the university’s international research strength.

A New Era in Clinical Diagnostics: Met4Metab

Set to begin on July 1, 2026, and continue for 36 months, the project addresses one of the major obstacles to personalized medicine: measurement standards. Through the standardization of metabolomic measurements and the reporting of results in a manner traceable to the International System of Units (SI), the project aims to improve the global reliability of laboratory results.

National Collaboration Between GTU and TÜBİTAK UME

In the consortium coordinated by Germany’s national metrology institute PTB and consisting of 19 partners from 12 countries, Türkiye is jointly represented by GTU and the TÜBİTAK National Metrology Institute (UME). The studies to be conducted within the Department of Chemistry will directly contribute to the project’s technical infrastructure.

GTU’s Role in the Project

Within the scope of the project, the GTU team will be responsible for several critical technical stages essential to the accuracy of clinical measurements, including:

Synthesis and Characterization: Synthesis of qNMR (Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) internal standards

Stability Analyses: Evaluation of the stability of the produced standards throughout clinical application processes

Dissemination and Impact: Ensuring the visibility of scientific outputs in both academic and industrial communities