Clemens van Blitterswijk

Clemens van Blitterswijk
Clemens van Blitterswijk
Born1957 (age 6768)
The Hague, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materUniversity of Leiden
AwardsJean Leray Award;

The Marie Parijs Award; The Klein Award;

George Winter Award; Huibregtsen Prize; Career Achievement Award;
Scientific career
FieldsBiomedical engineering, biomaterials, tissue engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Maastricht

Clemens A. van Blitterswijk (1957, The Hague) is a Dutch tissue engineer who contributed to the use of biomaterials to heal bone injuries, especially using osteoinductive ceramics. In collaboration with Jan de Boer and others, he has contributed to screening microtextures to study cell-biomaterial interactions, an approach termed materiomics.