Amparo Acker-Palmer

Amparo Acker-Palmer is a Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt's Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, and holds a Max Planck Fellow position at the MPI for Brain Research since 2014. Her research focuses on the molecular crosstalk between vascular and nervous systems at the neurovascular interface.

Her primary research interests include:

• Neurovascular communication during CNS development
• Molecular pathways in vessel-nerve crosstalk
• Vascular roles in synaptic plasticity
• Ephrin/VEGF receptor signaling mechanisms
• Neurovascular interface in disease models

Analysis of her 51 publications reveals consistent focus on vascular guidance in neural development, receptor crosstalk (particularly EphrinB2/VEGFR2), and neurovascular unit dynamics. Her work spans molecular neuroscience, vascular biology, and developmental neurobiology, with significant contributions to understanding how blood vessels instruct neuronal behavior.

Her laboratory utilizes mouse and zebrafish models to investigate these processes, with recent work emphasizing therapeutic implications for neural repair and cancer metastasis.