Post by Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH

🧠 What happens when the brain's dishwasher isn't working properly? 🔬 A new Nordic Centre for Glymphatic Biology brings together world-leading researchers from Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH, Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) | University of Oslo, University of Oulu, Lund University and Rigshospitalet to advance our understanding of the brain’s glymphatic system – the network responsible for removing waste products from the brain. This new partnership builds on the pioneering work of Professor Maiken Nedergaard, whose discovery of the glymphatic system established an entirely new field of neuroscience and transformed our understanding of the brain's natural waste-clearance mechanisms. 💰 Backed by a major grant from Lundbeckfonden / Lundbeck Foundation, the new Nordic Centre for Glymphatic Biology will combine expertise in neuroscience, advanced imaging, translational medicine and clinical research to develop new diagnostic tools and pave the way for future treatments aimed at preventing or delaying neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. 🗨️ “We will likely be able to establish a clinical platform within a shorter time frame, so that middle-aged individuals can undergo a 20-minute scan that can tell them whether their brain’s ‘dishwasher’ is functioning well. The methods already exist at the experimental level, and I expect that in the coming years a simple solution will be developed and validated so that it can also be used in smaller hospitals,” says Maiken Nedergaard. 📷 Last week, all five research units gathered in Copenhagen for the kick-off of the collaboration. Photo: Kent Pørksen 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ejJZ7eSb