Student projects on "Modeling the energy supply of the brain in health and disease"

• University of Berne
• Medizinische Fakultät

The key energy substrates of the brain are glucose and oxygen. Both are delivered to the brain via an intricate network of blood vessels. Recently, novel datasets resolving the entire vasculature of the mouse brain became available, which offer unique opportunities to study the brain’s energy supply. This requires developing and applying novel numerical methods to simulate blood flow and nutrient transport in large microvascular networks and the surrounding tissue. Besides looking at the healthy brain we are interested in pathologies like stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.

• Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
• Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project, Student Assistant / HiWi