Dr. Amira Hanafy

Profile

Academic position	Post Doc
Research fields	Pharmacy,Molecular Biology and Physiology of Neurons and Glial Cells,Experimental and Theoretical Network Neuroscience
Keywords	Blood-brain barrier, Nanotechnology, Drug delivery, Alzheimer's disease, two-photon microscopy
Honours and awards	2025: DFG Research Grant 2022: BONFOR Funding for young scientists to establish their research direction (UKB, Bonn) 2017: Georg Forster Postdoctoral Fellowship (start of the fellowship is 1.3.2019) 2012: IBRO-UNESCO Inter-regional School on Computational Neuroscience Award

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Bonn
Institution	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institute	Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel	Department Pharmazie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Alf Lamprecht	Pharmazeutisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship	01/03/2019

Programme(s)

2017	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023	Amira Sayed Hanafy, Alf Lamprecht, Dirk Dietrich: Local perfusion of capillaries reveals disrupted beta-amyloid homeostasis at the blood-brain barrier in Tg2576 murine Alzheimer’s model. In: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 20, 2023, 85
2023	Amira Sayed Hanafy, Pia Steinlein, Julika Pitsch, Mariella Hurtado Silva, Natascha Vana, Albert J Becker, Mark Evan Graham, Susanne Schoch, Alf Lamprecht, Dirk Dietrich: Subcellular analysis of blood-brain barrier function by micro-impalement of vessels in acute brain slices. In: Nature Communications, 14, 2023, 481
2021	Amira Hanafy; Dirk Dietrich; Gert Fricker and Alf Lamprecht: Blood-brain barrier models: rationale for selection. In: Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2021, 113859
2020	Hanafy, Amira; Schoch, Susanne; and Lamprecht, Alf: CRISPR/Cas9 Delivery Potentials in Alzheimer’s Disease Management: A Mini Review. In: Pharmaceutics, 12, 2020,