Amparo Ruiz de Almodóvar visits ICMM to talk about Neuro-vascular communication in the central nervous system

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Carmen Ruiz de Almodóvar, Director of the Institute for Neurovascular Cell Biology - University of Bonn (Germany), visited the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) on March, 4th inside the Lectures in Materials Science seminar series. The researcher gave the conference entitled 'Neuro-vascular communication in the central nervous system for biomedical advancements' and met some of the scientist groups at ICMM.+

Conchi Serrano, ICMM's researcher, presented Ruiz de Almodóvar talking about how long we had waited for her seminar: "She was going to come in March, 2020", she said. Finally, four years later, the researcher gave a very interesting seminar to an audience of half a hundred people. Then, after having lunch, Ruiz de Almodóvar met Ricardo García, lead of Force Tool Group, and Beatriz Hernández, part if 2D Foundry Group.

During her talk, she explained that to build such a precise and unique organ like our brain, "precise control of distinct processes such as neurogenesis, axonal growth, astrogenesis, synaptogenesis, etc need to occur". "At the same time as those processes are happening during the development of our central nervous system, the neural tissue is being vascularized in order to deliver oxygen and nutrients to all cells", she said. 

That is why she discussed how blood vessels and neural cells communicate with each other during development to assure proper formation and function or our brain and spinal cord. "Understanding these fundamental mechanisms is essential for better defining approaches to induce and instruct neuronal regeneration in CNS pathologies or upon injury", concluded the researcher.