Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk

Qualifications: PhD

Date of appointment: 2017

Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk, PhD, has served Kuros Chairman since June 2018 and has been a member of the Kuros board since June 2017. He is the Department Chair and Professor at MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Prof van Blitterswijk has founded nine companies over the years.

He is recipient of numerous national and international awards like recently “the most entrepreneurial professor of the Netherlands”. He brings over two decades of entrepreneurial science to the Kuros team. Prof van Blitterswijk has authored and co-authored over 350 scientific papers and is inventor on more than 100 patents. He has published three books as an editor, and contributed to many more as a contributing author. Prof van Blitterswijk is a biologist by training and has a PhD in Medicine from Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is Dutch citizen.