David Marlevi recieves Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council
As part of the Swedish Research Council's latest call, David Marlevi was awarded a Starting Grant within Natural and Engineering Sciences. The grant was the only starting grant in Natural and Engineering Sciences awarded at KI.
Entitled "Imaging the spatial risk of atherosclerosis – understanding regional instability through multidimensional analysis", the project aims at improving how clinicians predict stroke risk by identifying the so called spatial features that make atherosclertoic plaques unstable. Specifically, through advanced engineering methods, the project will seek to elucidate how the morphology, biomechanics, and biology of carotid plaques vary within a clinical population, and as such pinpoint which features lead to stroke-related outcomes.
"I am honored to have recieved support from the Swedish Research Council. Using our existing reseach team both within the group of Clinical Physiology but also together with deeply integrated colleagues within the group of Vascular Surgery, the project will pave new ways of how we define plaque vulnerability and stroke risk. Personally, I'm also really excited to see medical imaging recieve support in such a competitive grant round", says David Marlevi.
The project will span over 4 years, starting in 2026.