Affiliation: Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary.
Keywords: Neurovascular unit, blood-brain barrier, neuroinflammation, aging,
brain metastasis
Full profile: Imola Wilhelm is a senior research associate in the Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. Her research interest is focused on cerebral
circulation, the neurovascular unit and the blood-brain barrier. She is a leading scholar of the neurovascular unit, especially pericytes, in brain metastases, neuroinflammation and aging.
She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in the field and is the principal investigator of several scientific grants. As a recognition of her work, she received several prizes including the Junior Award and the Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science national scholarship.
She has mentored and supervised several BSc, MSc, MD and PhD students. Since 2020, she has been a Szent-Györgyi mentor of the National Academy of Scientist Education. She joined the Hungarian Young Academy in 2021, presently serving as an executive board member. She is active in science communication as a lecturer at Researchers’ Night (since 2014) and Brain Awareness Week (since 2018). In addition, she appeared in multiple news outlets to popularize science. She is married and a
mother of one daughter.