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Marika Ruiyao CAI (PhD Student)

Team Acute Brain Injury (Dr Ali ERTÜRK)

Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD)

Klinikum der Universität München, Germany

Ruiyao Cai obtained her BSc and MSc in Biotechnology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy. After a period as intern at the University of Oxford and as research fellow in the lab of Neurobiology of the University of Milan-Bicocca, she moved to Munich for her PhD studies. Currently, she is completing her doctoral program in Ertürk´s lab at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, LMU, in Munich. Her research projects focus on the development of new tissue clearing technologies for biomedical research.

A fundamental challenge in modern science is to understand how the brain functions in health and what goes wrong in the disease state. We develop and implement 3D imaging technologies to be able to generate the highest resolution views of intact rodent organs and bodies. We developed DISCO line tissues transparency technologies, which have been a great utility for scientists from diverse bio-medical research fields. Overall, this approach provides a holistic view of inter connected biological systems to perceive biological mechanisms in an unbiased way. Our laboratory is interested in understanding key mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration after acute brain injuries, mainly stroke and dementia. To this quest, we take a multidisciplinary approach by using advanced neuroscience imaging, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.