Rate My Professor Inge Mulder

Inge Mulder serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics at Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. Her affiliations include Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences in the Atherosclerosis and Aortic Disease theme and Amsterdam Neuroscience in the Neurovascular Disorders program. She also holds a Visiting Fellow position in Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology. As manager of the in vivo multi-photon imaging laboratory, she oversees advanced imaging for experimental neurovascular research.

Mulder's research focuses on neurovascular dysfunction during acute ischemic stroke, with particular emphasis on impaired microvascular reperfusion after recanalization treatment. She unravels causes of poor blood flow recovery, such as narrowing and plugging of small brain vessels downstream from the clot, using in vivo two-photon imaging in rodent stroke models alongside in vitro and clinical projects for translational impact. A promising researcher who recently gained her doctorate, she received the NWO Veni grant in 2025 for her project 'Vascular Dysfunction in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Identifying and Targeting New Therapeutic Pathways.' She also holds a Dekker grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation. Key publications include 'Endothelial-Ercc1 DNA repair deficiency provokes blood-brain barrier disruption and neuroinflammation after ischemic stroke' (2025), 'Micro-Embolic Events and Their Clearing in the Brain: A Narrative Review' (2025), 'The polyunsaturated fatty acid and oxylipin plasma signature of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: case-control study' (2025), 'Circle of Willis variations in migraine patients with ischemic stroke' (2019), and 'Adipokines as Immune Cell Modulators in Multiple Sclerosis' (2021). With 36 publications and 545 citations, her work advances stroke therapy development. She is Co-Chair of the Young@Heart board since 2024.