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There is a workshop upcoming about modelling of biological systems at Linköping university. It will take place Thursday-Friday this week, May 11-12, 2017, and is open to everybody who wants to attend: students, scientists, and the general public. We will contribute with one presentation, at Thursday 16-16.20. This presentation will consist of an overview of our modelling philosphy and of our various modelling projects. Apart from us there will be some 20-25 other groups who will present as well. Almost all of the presenters either still work, or have worked, at LiU, i.e. Linköping university.

More information about the workshop can be found here.

Last Friday, one of our Ph.D. students – Mikael Forsgren – nailed up his Ph.D. thesis on our local thesis tree. He thus followed in the footsteps of many many others, ranging back possibly even beyond Martin Luther, by thus publically announcing that he has something that he would like to publically discuss: the thoughts and results in his thesis.

The formal defense will be held at 13.15 in Eken, at HU, Linköping, Sweden. The opponent will be Stephen Sourbron, from Leeds, who is an expert on perfusion modelling in different organs. Mikael’s thesis is about modelling of not only perfusion, but also of intracellular uptake and release, concerning the contrast agent Primovist. He shows how the estimation of such uptake properties using mechanistic modelling can be used to obtain new patient-specific biomarkers, which can be obtained from MRI examinations, and which thus can move to eventually become a non-invasive replacement for today’s invasive liver biopsy examinations. The goal is that this should lead to a reduction in healthcare cost and individual suffering, and to an increase in accuracy and diagnostic power.

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