Dean of Engineering, Prof. Özgür B. Akan, has received the prestigious AXA Chair, given by AXA Research Fund, representing the first time such a Chair has been received in Türkiye. Prof. Akan received this award for his proposal titled “MI-FI: Micro/Nanoscale Transceivers for Wireless Molecular Information Communications”. We congratulate Prof. Akan for this extremely well-deserved recognition and wishing him continued success!