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Maiken Nedergaard
Danish neuroscientist
Maiken Nedergaard is a Danishneuroscientist most well known for discovering the glymphatic system.
The Danish neuroscientist is well known for her research on “glymphatics” — a term she helped coin more than a decade ago to describe a network.
She is a jointly appointed professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She holds a part-time appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery within the University of Rochester Center for Translational Neuromedicine, where she is the principal investigator of the Division of Glial Disease and Therapeutics laboratory.
She is also Professor of Glial Cell Biology at the University of Copenhagen, Center for Translational Neuromedicine.[1]
Education
Nedergaard attended the University of Copenhagen, where she received an M.D.
in 1983 and a D.M.Sc in 1988. She completed post-doctoral training in neuropathology/physiology at the University of Copenhagen (1984–1987) and subsequently in neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine (1987–1988).[2]
Research
In 2010, Nederg