Gokhan Bahcecioglu, former visiting scholar at Brown/RIH in Dr. Bilgen’s lab and Ph.D. candidate in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, received the Best Poster Award among the 183 posters with his poster based on his studies conducted in our laboratory with Dr Bilgen, titled “Reinforcing agarose and GelMA hydrogels with 3D printed PCL: A novel scaffold for use in meniscus tissue engineering”. The 22nd Biomedical Science and Technology Symposium, BIOMED 2017, was held in Ankara, Turkey during 12-14 May, 2017. We congratulate him and his coauthors Dr. Bahar Bilgen, Prof. Vasif Hasirci and Prof. Nesrin Hasirci.