Dr. Ir. Jack Cleutjens
Short description
Focus areas
- Cardiovascular research
- Extracellular matrix turnover
- Heart attack / atherosclerosis
- (Digital) microscopy
- Morphometry
Contact
E-mail: jack.cleutjens@mumc.nl / jack.cleutjens@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Telephone: (+31) (0) 43 -387 66 31
About
Jack Cleutjens studied biology at the Agricultural University in Wageningen.
After completing military service, he graduated in 1985. From 1985-1989, he conducted PhD research under the supervision of Prof Dr F.t. Bosman which resulted in the thesis entitled: Basement membrane heterogeneity
After his PhD, he started a post-doc project sponsored by the Heart Foundation on the role of the extracellular matrix in post-myocardial infarction wound healing. From 1992-1993, he spent a year researching the role of Matrix MetalloProteinases in post-myocardial infarction wound healing with Prof Dr Karl Weber at the Department of Cardiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. This project was sponsored as a Talent stipend by NWO. From 1993, he has been a staff member at the Department of Pathology