# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maiken-nedergaard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:31:49.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maiken-nedergaard"
name: "Maiken Nedergaard"
slug: "maiken-nedergaard"
description: "Maiken Nedergaard is a Danish neuroscientist most well known for discovering the glymphatic system. 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."
tagline: "Danish neuroscientist"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1957-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump