Clemens van Blitterswijk

Clemens van Blitterswijk
Clemens van Blitterswijk
Born	The Hague, The Netherlands
Residence	The Netherlands
Nationality	The Netherlands
Fields	Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering
Institutions	University of Twente
Alma mater	University of Leiden
Notable awards	Jean Leray award; The Marie Parijs award; The Klein award; George Winter award;

Clemens A. van Blitterswijk (born 7 July 1957, The Hague) graduated as cell biologist at Leiden University in 1982. He defended his PhD thesis in 1985 at the same university (promoter, prof.dr. J.J. Grote), on artificial ceramic middle ear implants, for which he was awarded the Jean Leray award, the Marie Parijs award and the Klein award in the following years. He continued his research on bone replacement primarily, with extensions to cartilage and skin substitution.

Today most of his research deals with tissue engineering applications. Prof. van Blitterswijk has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers, guided more than 40 PhD students as promotor or co-promotor, is inventor on numerous patents and frequently acts as invited speaker or chairman at international conferences. For his more recent work he received the George Winter award of the European society for Biomaterials and was appointed Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering by the international liaison committee.

He acts and has acted on numerous advisory organs relating directly to life- and material sciences or to the economic applications thereof and held positions such as chairman of the Dutch society for Biomaterials and treasurer of the European Society for Biomaterials.

During his career Prof. van Blitterswijk has co-founded four biomedical companies and held several functions in these organizations. He acted as CEO of IsoTis (a public life sciences company in the Netherlands) from 1996 to 2002. In total he raised over 120 Million Euros in funding through equity and/or grants. Resulting from his work 10 implant technologies were brought into clinical evaluation in humans.

Today Prof. Van Blitterswijk has an appointment at University of Twente in the Netherlands where, as chair of Tissue Regeneration, he heads a team of PhD students active in the field of tissue engineering.

He has recently published a book on Tissue Engineering which is considered to be a text book in the field in major universities across the world. He is the pioneer in the field of Materiomics which deals the complexities of materials in Tissue Engineering.

Sources & External Links

• Clemens van Blitterswijk faculty profile
• Tissue Engineering Book
• Search Scholarly Works by Clemens van Blitterswijk

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Name	Blitterswijk, Clemens van
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Date of birth	7 July 1957
Place of birth	The Hague, The Netherlands
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