New DFG research group on MRE in cancer (FOR5628)

How do tumors and metastases develop? What makes them resistant to treatment? We want to investigate these questions with a new research group at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin using multifrequency magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). The project is being funded for four years by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Article published: “Changes in Tissue Fluidity Predict Tumor Aggressiveness In Vivo” – congratulations to the authors!

Frank Sauer, Steffen Grosser, Mehrgan Shahryari, Alexander Hayn, Jing Guo, Jürgen Braun, Susanne Briest, Benjamin Wolf, Bahriye Aktas, Lars-Christian Horn, Ingolf Sack, Josef A. Käs;   First published: 08 August 2023; https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202303523 And as a spotlight on the charité-research-site: https://www.charite.de/forschung/paper_spotlight/2023/neue_erkenntnisse_zu_den_mechanischen_eigenschaften_von_tumoren/

Introductory courses and BIOQIC Day 2023

The first PhD students of the third and last BIOQIC cohort have started.Their introductory courses are scheduled for the week of July 3-7. Like previous times, the PhD students will learn about the basics of imaging and the methods used in our graduate program. Our annual BIOQIC day(s) will be held this year together with…

Summary and overview of the first ISMRM workshop on magnetic resonance elastography, August 25–26, 2022, Berlin, Germany

An ISMRM workshop on MR elastography was held at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin on August 25–26, 2022. As an exclusively in-person event, 65 participants from 9 countries attended the workshop despite COVID-19–related restrictions. The topics of the workshop covered cellular and microtissue mechanical interactions, the development of MR elastography driver technology, approaches to inverse problems, clinical applications,…

The BIOQIC Days 2022 took place from September 29 to 30 at the Inselhotel in Potsdam. The event was also available online via MS Teams. On the first day, 2nd cohort PhD students presented their projects and discussed their results and ideas with colleagues and PIs, with sessions led by 2nd cohort PhD students. Click…