Dr. Alexandra V. Juers is a clinician scientist in the group of Andreas Hermann at the Translational Neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel” in the Department of Neurology of the University Medical Center Rostock, Germany. She finished medical school and received her MD at the same university studying oxidative stress in Morbus Niemann Pick type C in neurally differentiated cells. Currently, her research aims to better understand the role of dysfunctional nucleocytoplasmic transport in aging-related and neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS.