Research focus:Pathophysiology of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke as the basis for the development of novel therapeutic options for stroke patients

Key words: Experimental stroke models (transient & permanent focal cerebral ischemia, global ischemia, subarachnoid hemorrhage), methodologies to investigate cerebral microcirculation (intravital microscopy using conventional and 2-photon excitation), neurovascular stress, degeneration („vasculodegeneration“), acute and chronic stroke syndromes, pathophysiology of microcirculatory dysfunction, small vessel disease