Lundgaard Laboratory postdoctoral fellow Kelley M. Swanberg, Ph.D. recently gave an oral presentation of her work ‘1H-MRS-visible brain lactate dynamics are perturbed in Aqp4-knockout mouse models of disrupted cerebrospinal fluid flow’ with Jari Jukkola, Ph.D., Maryam Hassan, Michael Gottschalk, Ph.D., and Professor Iben Lundgaard, describing recent developments in their novel in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS)-based method for noninvasively observing solute clearance from the brain without need to inject potentially harmful tracers like gadolinium-based contrast agents. The talk was attended by 100+ researchers from around the world at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting 2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Center in Cape Town, South Africa, and was followed by a number of enriching discussions.
Jukkola J, Hassan M, Gottschalk M, Lundgaard I, and Swanberg KM. 1H-MRS-visible brain lactate dynamics are perturbed in Aqp4-knockout mouse models of disrupted cerebrospinal fluid flow, Proc ISMRM 2026, 402-03-10 represents a step forward with project ‘Ett icke-invasivt mätbart metaboliskt tecken på glymfatisk aktivitet i hjärnan‘ and can be viewed here.
Thank you to MultiPark and Kungliga fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund for funding this international presentation opportunity! Thank you as well to Sten K Johnsons stiftelse, Tore Nilsons Stiftelse för medicinsk forskning, Stiftelsen Thelma Zoegas fond för medicinsk forskning and Crafoordska stiftelsen for supporting this work.