Maiken Nedergaard
Dr., University of Copenhagen
Maiken Nedergaard is listed as Dr., University of Copenhagen. Maiken spoke at DGN Kongress 2026 (Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie) in November 2026 (speaker, “Symposium of the Gertrud-Reemtsma-Stiftung: Emerging Concepts in Translational Neuroscience – Immunity, Brain Clearance and Recovery”).
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Dr. Nedergaard is Professor of Glial Cell Biology at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark and Dean’s Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) in Rochester, NY. Her multiple interests range from basic research on neuron-glia interactions to their role in aging, small vessel disease, seizure disorders and cerebral blood flow. Her group has recently described the glymphatic system, a brain equivalent of the lymphatic system within which cerebrospinal fluid diffuses rapidly and mixes with interstitial fluids, thereby filtering metabolic byproducts that accumulate due to neuronal activity. The glymphatic system dramatically expands during sleep compared to waking – brain cleaning and detoxification is thus greatly facilitated during sleep, providing a novel and direct explanation for what we all generally consider sleep’s restorative effect. Dr Nedergaard is an elected me