The Ph.D. thesis of our recent graduate Ms. Beste Kinikoglu titled " Tissue engineering of full-thickness human oral mucosa" supervised jointly by Prof. Dr.Vasif Hasirci and Prof. Dr. Odile Damour (France) has been awarded the title "Best Thesis of 2011" by METU Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. We congratulate Dr. Beste Kinikoglu and wish her continued success.