Experience

Antleron

• Belgium
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CEO

  • Nov 2018 - Present

• Co-Founder & Managing Director

  • Nov 2014 - Present

  We are Antleron.We believe patients will be able to say goodbye to the 'one-treatment-fits-all' approach of today, and receive fully personalized care.​Antleron envisions living therapies to become a sustainable reality through personalized manufacturing 4.0.We are on a mission to fast track regenerative medicine innovations and personalized advanced therapies from lab to patient.We co-create end-to-end solutions to accelerate the engineering of advanced therapies, change health care and result in a better life for all.www.antleron.com



MEDVIA

• Belgium
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Medvia stimulates unique innovations in healthcare by facilitating and supporting collaborations between companies, knowledge centers, universities, and healthcare institutions.MEDVIA is an industry-driven network building unique consortia and solutions for the many unmet medical needs.http://medvia.be Medvia stimulates unique innovations in healthcare by facilitating and supporting collaborations between companies, knowledge centers, universities, and healthcare institutions.MEDVIA is an industry-driven network building unique consortia and solutions for the many unmet medical needs.http://medvia.be



flanders.bio

• Belgium
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  FlandersBio is the networking organisation for the life sciences sector in Flanders, a dynamic non-profit, fee-based organisation with currently more than 270 members.www.flandersbio.be FlandersBio is the networking organisation for the life sciences sector in Flanders, a dynamic non-profit, fee-based organisation with currently more than 270 members.www.flandersbio.be



Startupbootcamp

• Netherlands
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Mentor

  • Mar 2015 - Present

  Startupbootcamp Smart Materials is Europe’s first business accelerator for materials. We believe the time has come to place emphasis on the invisible impact of the materials we come into contact with every day and to unleash their potential to innovate our health and lifestyle: from our food and liquid containers, to our houses and vehicles, to highly elaborate body implants. Startupbootcamp Smart Materials is Europe’s first business accelerator for materials. We believe the time has come to place emphasis on the invisible impact of the materials we come into contact with every day and to unleash their potential to innovate our health and lifestyle: from our food and liquid containers, to our houses and vehicles, to highly elaborate body implants.



RegMed - Regenerative Medicine Innovation Platform

• Coordinator

  • Dec 2013 - Present

  www.regmed.beThe province of Flemish Brabant and its neighbouring regions have a leading role in regenerative and personalised medicine research, translation, industrialisation, dissemination and clinical implementation and have a critical mass of complementary actors along the complete value chain.To maintain and strengthen this unique position a customised strategic innovation platform was established. The goal of this Regenerative Medicine Innovation Platform (RegMed) is to enable this emerging industry to generate added value for its regional actors and also to develop novel activities in the region.RegMed builds on its supporting community that includes stakeholders across the complete value chain and has set the following regenerative medicine aims:- White paper(s) for the region- Strategy for a multidisciplinary accelerator- Concepts for new business models- Start-up of follow-up projects- Start-up of concrete collaborations between community members- Set-up of an 'Open Access Lab' for collaborative proof-of-concept testing- Bring in new actors / customers- Dissemination, including the general public



Bone4Kids - Charity Fund

• Co-Founder & Board Member

  • Mar 2012 - Present

  www.bone4kids.beThe Bone4Kids Fund was established to round up resources for the research and treatment of non-healing fractures (pseudarthrosis) in children.Non-healing bone defects in children are the biggest nightmare for orthopaedic surgeons as treating these (very) young children always requires multiple surgical interventions throughout their childhood, including bone transplantations, without any guarantee for success.Amputation is often the only way out.Research team Prometheus at KU Leuven University has reached the last stage in the development of a new therapy which will dramatically reduce the number of surgical interventions. Our fund targets to help give this research the final push towards accomplishing its goal.Supported by the University Fund of the KU Leuven, scientists and parents have combined forces in an effort to raise the much needed funds.



Advanced Biomaterials and Devices in Medicine

• Editorial Committee

  • Aug 2014 - Present

  www.abiodem.com www.abiodem.com



International Tissue Engineering Research Association (ITERA)

• Steering Committee & Medical Engineering Advisory Board Member

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  ITERA Life – Sciences Forum is a unique and open organisation based on the principles of networking in which young and senior researchers in the field of sciences, physic, medicine, biology, physiology, pharmacology, bio-engineering and engineering are welcome and are participating members. ITERA Life – Sciences Forum has created this networking to chare the knowledge of the academic world with the knowledge of small and middle sized enterprises (SMEs), with the aim to participate in the Framework programs of the European Union.www.itera-ls.org



Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B & C

• Editorial Board Member

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2020



KU Leuven

• Belgium
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2015

  Long term strategy and technology transfer of biomaterials and tissue engineering research

• Research Manager

  • Nov 2005 - Jan 2009

  Long term strategy and technology transfer of biomaterials and tissue engineering research

• Postdoctoral Fellow - Project Manager

  • Feb 2000 - Nov 2005

  First large scale Tissue Engineering project in FlandersGuided Bone EngineeringIWT-GBOU2003 - 2008The overall objective of this project is to gain substantial knowledge about guided bone regeneration, which is defined as the formation of new bone in the presence of artificial structures (inert, biodegradable or biologically activated) that contain bone- stimulating factors, in order to generate solutions for a patient- customised device for the healing of large defects in load-bearing bone, taking into account the life expectation of the patient.The long-term objective, based on the results of this project, is to kick-off Tissue Engineering research in Flanderswww.tissue-engineering.be



Prometheus - KU Leuven Division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering

• Board Member

  • Nov 2006 - Jan 2015

  www.kuleuven.be/prometheus

• Co-Founder & Manager

  • Nov 2006 - Jul 2014

  Prometheus' mission is to develop robust and clinically relevant tissue engineering approaches for skeletal applications.Prometheus is a translational platform in the field of regenerative medicine. To achieve this, it integrates and advances the scientific and technological knowledge of its partners. This unique transdisciplinary team organizes its activities on the scientific, industrial-technical and preclinical level to develop robust and clinically relevant tissue engineering approaches for skeletal applications.www.kuleuven.be/prometheus



Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Inc. (TERMIS)

• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Council Member

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2014



Tissue Engineering, 2nd Edition - Elsevier

• Associate Editor

  • Mar 2013 - Oct 2014



Het Ingenieursblad

• Editorial Board Member

  • 2004 - 2009



European Society for Biomaterials

• Young Scientists Forum Member

  • 2003 - 2007