Clemens van Blitterswijk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Clemens van Blitterswijk

Dutch scientist

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1957

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: engineer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Clemens A.
van Blitterswijk (1957, The Hague) is a Dutch scientist who is internationally known for his pioneering work in tissue engineering, which aims to replace or regenerate diseased or damaged tissues through a combination of biology and engineering.
In the past decades, he has led teams that have contributed to several scientific breakthroughs in the field, one of which is using synthetic biomaterials to heal bone injuries by triggering the body's cells to regenerate.
Together with Hemant Unadkat and Jan de Boer, he also led the application of high-throughput techniques to deal with the complexity of designing biomaterials, termed "materiomics".
Van Blitterswijk has contributed more than 430 peer-reviewed published papers (>18,000 citations, h-index 88; Web of Science).