Joost Meijers

Joost Meijers is Professor of Experimental Vascular Medicine in Sanquin and the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Meijers studied Chemistry at the University of Utrecht and received his PhD degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the same university. His training included a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle (1988-1991). Meijers is a former Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992-1997) and Established Investigator of the Netherlands Heart Foundation (1997-2002). He was chairman of the Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine at the Academic Medical Center (1999-2014) and the Department of Plasma Proteins at Sanquin (2015-2018). He is (co-)inventor of 7 patents, including “Cyclodextrins as procoagulants”, which formed the rationale for the foundation of Alveron Pharma. His research focuses on the initiation and regulation of the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems. He published more than 390 articles on this topic.