Maiken Nedergaard

The honor recognizes Nedergaard’s groundbreaking research over the past decade, which has fundamentally reshaped basic neuroscience.

Rochester scientists are restoring the brain’s trash disposal system with a drug currently used to induce labor.

A new, AI-based technique for measuring fluid flow in the brain could lead to treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

The Rochester professor emeritus and new American Astronomical Society fellow now explores the brain’s waste disposal system.

New Rochester research may help explain the connection between high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease, and it's all to do with how the brain pumps away waste.