Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold is an expert in intravital microscopy techniques with a background in molecular immunology, cell migration and leukocyte trafficking. She is principal investigator at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich-Germany, where she is head of the Intravital Microscopy Core Facility and has her research group working on the topics of Leukocyte trafficking in inflammation, infection, cancer metastatasis and Immunothrombosis. Dr. Ishikawa-Ankerhold graduated from the University of Sao Paulo-Brazil, where she has received her education in molecular and cellular biology of the cytoskeleton, cell migration, innate immunity, and imaging modalities.
She developed her expertise in microscopy techniques, microfluidic devices, actin remodeling, cell migration and chemotaxis, as doctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried close to Munich, Germany. In 2015 Dr. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, joined the LMU as head of the Multiphoton and Intravital Microscopy platform where she established several mouse models to study leukocyte trafficking in health and diseases. This year (2024) she received her Venia Legendi as university lecturer (Private docent). She just got a Nature paper accepted with her work on the mechanisms controlling platelet biogenesis.
