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Our new Division Leaders

Our new Division Leaders

3 October 2024

As of 1 October 2024, Casper Schalkwijk and Joost Lumens have been appointed as Division Leaders Vessels and Heart. Judith Sluimer will success Hugo ten Cate as Division Leader Blood in March 2025.

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New CARIM initiative: Anna Maria van Schurman Stipend - call for proposals

New CARIM initiative: Anna Maria van Schurman Stipend - call for proposals

1 October 2024

In 2024, CARIM introduces the Anna Maria van Schurman Stipend, aimed at encouraging and supporting female researchers, named after the acknowledged ‘first female Dutch student’.

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Martijn Hoes

Assistant Professor

Martijn Hoes is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Clinical Genetics (MUMC+), Cardiology (UM), and Genetics and Cell Biology (UM). He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Maastricht University. Subsequently, he moved to Groningen (NL) for a PhD at the University Medical Centre Groningen under the supervision of Peter van der Meer. In his graduate work, he developed several in vitro models for cardiac diseases based on human cardiomyocytes derived from (induced) pluripotent stem cells around the central topic of peripartum cardiomyopathy. He stayed in the same lab to study the effects or pregnancy on the heart in more detail. Finally, he moved back to Maastricht to work at the intersections of genetics and (pregnancy-related) heart disease in 2022.

Martijn’s main research focus is on understanding the effects of pregnancy and breastfeeding on the cardiovascular system and as a possible trigger for pregnancy-related heart diseases. As part of an interdisciplinary team, he aims to further develop in vitro models based on tissue engineering to further study the interaction between genetic predisposition and certain aspects of pregnancy in the heart. These models will support translational research with a strong clinical relevance.

In 2021, Martijn was granted a Postdoc Dekker Grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation that allows him to study peripartum cardiomyopathy in more detail by using engineered cardiac tissues in collaboration with the group of Peter van der Meer at the UMCG.

Clinical Genetics, Cardiology, Genetics and Cell biology
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: F5.104

  • 2024
    • Wang, F., Neumann, D., Kapsokalyvas, D., Hoes, M. F., Schianchi, F., Glatz, J. F. C., Nabben, M., & Luiken, J. J. F. P. (2024). Specific Compounds Derived from Traditional Chinese Medicine Ameliorate Lipid-Induced Contractile Dysfunction in Cardiomyocytes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(15), Article 8131. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25158131
    • Collins, H. E., Alexander, B. T., Care, A. S., Davenport, M. H., Davidge, S. T., Eghbali, M., Giussani, D. A., Hoes, M. F., Julian, C. G., LaVoie, H. A., Olfert, I. M., Ozanne, S. E., Bytautiene Prewit, E., Warrington, J. P., Zhang, L., & Goulopoulou, S. (2024). Guidelines for Assessing Maternal Cardiovascular Physiology During Pregnancy and Postpartum. American Journal of Physiology-heart and Circulatory Physiology, 327(1), H191-H220. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00055.2024
  • 2023
    • Vinke, J. S. J., Gorter, A. R., Eisenga, M. F., Dam, W. A., van der Meer, P., van den Born, J., Bakker, S. J. L., Hoes, M. F., & de Borst, M. H. (2023). Iron deficiency is related to lower muscle mass in community-dwelling individuals and impairs myoblast proliferation. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle, 14(4), 1865-1879. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.13277
    • Linders, A. N., Dias, I. B., Ovchinnikova, E. S., Vermeer, M. C. S. C., Hoes, M. F., Mavrogenis, G. M., Deiman, F. E., Gomez, K. F. A., Bliley, J. M., Nehme, J., Vink, A., Gietema, J., de Boer, R. A., Westenbrink, D., Sillje, H. H. W., Hilfiker-Kleiner, D., van Laake, L. W., Feinberg, A. W., Demaria, M., ... van der Meer, P. (2023). Evaluation of Senescence and Its Prevention in Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity Using Dynamic Engineered Heart Tissues. JACC: CardioOncology, 5(3), 298-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccao.2023.03.012
    • Vermeer, M. C. S. C., Arevalo Gomez, K. F., Hoes, M. F., Tromp, J., Verdonschot, J. A. J., Henkens, M. T. H. M., Silljé, H. H. W., Bolling, M. C., & van der Meer, P. (2023). Clinical Outcome in KLHL24 Cardiomyopathy. Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 16(4), 401-403. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCGEN.122.003998
    • Sanchez-Aguilera, P., Lopez-Crisosto, C., Norambuena-Soto, I., Penannen, C., Zhu, J. M., Bomer, N., Hoes, M. F., van der Meer, P., Chiong, M., Westenbrink, B. D., & Lavandero, S. (2023). IGF-1 boosts mitochondrial function by a Ca2+ uptake-dependent mechanism in cultured human and rat cardiomyocytes. Frontiers in physiology, 14(1), Article 1106662. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1106662
  • 2022
    • Willemars, M. M. A., Nabben, M., Verdonschot, J. A. J., & Hoes, M. F. (2022). Evaluation of the Interaction of Sex Hormones and Cardiovascular Function and Health. Current Heart Failure Reports, 19(4), 200-212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-022-00555-0
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