BioMMedA master thesis topics 2023-2024
Prof. An Ghysels
- Drugs as cargo: development of advanced path sampling simulations to investigate how peptides can carry drugs through cell membranes
- Intracellular drug delivery by laser-induced photoporation: molecular modeling of photothermally heated nanoparticles near biological membranes
- Kinetic profiling of protein-drug binding using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations
- Modelling and development of low-uptake macromolecular photoinitiators for light-based 3D-printing
- Molecular dynamics study: conformational classifier of ABL
Dr. ir. Annette Caenen
Prof. Charlotte Debbaut
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based pre-treatment planning for liver cancer
- Development of a Method to Aerosolize Viscous Drug Carriers in the Peritoneal Cavity of Mice
- Development of a Method to Analyze the Physiological Environment during Intraperitoneal Aerosolized Chemotherapy Delivery in Cancer Patients
- Intraperitoneal drug delivery using a branched catheter
- Modelling locoregional drug delivery for liver cancer immunotherapy using computational fluid dynamics
- Using CFD for the design and evaluation of medical catheters for transarterial liver cancer treatments
- Virtual preoperative planning of lung segmentectomies: development of a segment-predicting algorithm
- Virtual preoperative planning of partial nephrectomies: automation of complexity scoring systems to increase insight in the surgery
Prof . Pascal Verdonck
Prof. Patrick Segers
- 1D arterial network models for the automated interpretation of cardiovascular signals from the cradle to the grave
- A combined experimental/computational biomechanical study on the role of intratendinous pressure in the pathophysiology of tendinopathy
- Biomechanics of aortic ageing: a tale of growth and remodelling
- Increased coronary artery calification in the athlete heart: a CFD study
- Microstructural Modelling of Elastin Lamellar Structures and their impact on Arterial Biomechanics
- MR elastography of the brain - a way to measure intracranial pressure? A computational/experimental study
- Neuro-biomechanics of Chiara malformation: a computational study on intracranial and -spinal pressure fluctuations during daily life activities
- Sex and heart failure: different pathophysiology or inadequate diagnostic criteria? A biomechanical modelling study.
- Shear wave elastography for assessing interstitial fluid pressure: a combined computational-experimental study
- Ultrasound shear wave elastography: the cardiologists ultimate tool to directly measure the functional stiffness of the heart