Stefan Liebner

The most prominent example of a tissue specific vascular differentiation is the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which protects the brain from blood-born substances and guarantees the transport of nutrients. Our group is mainly interested in the molecular mechanisms, which regulate the endothelial differentiation into the barrier phenotype of the BBB, aiming to be able to manipulate endothelilal barrier-characteristics under pathological conditions, such as stroke, tumors and Alzheimer’s disease.