Martijn van Griensven
MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine,
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Prof. Martijn van Griensven, active leader of Working Group 5 and member of TENET has been awarded during TERMIS EU 226 Conference in Palma (ES) for his career. He gave a lecture entitled: “My 30 years journey in regenerative medicine for the musculoskeletal system”.
Congratulations Martijn!
Short bio
Martijn van Griensven (1974) studied in Leiden (NL) and was trained in Hannover (D). He was appointed as full professor for experimental trauma surgery in 2002 and at that time he was the youngest professor in Germany. In 2005, he became co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna (A). In 2011, he was appointed as director of Experimental Trauma Surgery at the Technical University of Munich (D). Since September 2019, he is full professor of regenerative medicine and head of the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering of the MERLN Institute at Maastricht University (NL). Since February 2023, he is vice director of MERLN. He is also affiliated to the Musculoskeletal Gene Therapy Research Group (Prof. Chris Evans), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He is a visiting professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima (Peru). He is professor at the UNESCO chair for biomaterials, Universidad de la Habana (Cuba).
Martijn is member of TERMIS since 2005. From 2017 to 2022 he was elected council member. Furthermore, he was involved in the “meeting and sponsorship” committee, that he chaired from 2020 until 2022. His main research areas are related to diagnostic and therapy methods for the musculoskeletal system with a strong pathway from pathogenetic causes to translational regenerative medicine. Furthermore, he is interested in the crosstalk between organs after traumatic injuries.
He has published 374 peer reviewed papers, 3 patents, 32 book chapters and he has edited 4 books.
