W.j.a. (wouter) Dhert
Faculty Office
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Since December 2014 Wouter Dhert is the dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and full professor of translational musculoskeletal research at Utrecht University. From 2008 until 2014 he was full professor at the Dept. of Orthoapedics at the University Medical Center Utrecht and part-time professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. He studied Medicine at Leiden University after which he obtained a PhD at the Leiden Biomaterials Research Group in 1993. Until 2014 he was chair of the UMC Utrecht research program ‘Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cells’ and member of the management team (vice-chair - reseach and education) of the division of Surgical Specialties. He is experienced in developing and leading teaching programs (e.g. PhD program ‘Regenerative Medicine’ as well as of the Master Program ‘Regenerative Medicine & Technology’ (in collaboration with Eindhoven University of Technology) of the Utrecht University Graduate School of Life Sciences). He serves at several international committees/boards related to regenerative medicine and/or musculoskeletal research, such as the Tissue Engineering journal (executive editorial board), Netherlands Institute for Regenerative Medicine (NIRM), the AO Research Review Commission (AORRC), and the Anna Foundation. In 2000 he was acknowledged as international Fellow in Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), in 2001 he received the Dutch ‘Anna-award’ for establishing a ‘most-promising post-doctoral research line’. In 2008, he was President of the World Biomaterials Congress in Amsterdam.
Research Interest
Translational musculoskeletal research
Publications
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Olthof, Maurits G L, Kempen, Diederik H R, Herrick, James L, Yaszemski, Michael J, Dhert, Wouter J A & Lu, Lichun (10.02.2017). Effect of different sustained bone morphogenetic protein-2 release kinetics on bone formation in poly(propylene fumarate) scaffolds. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc..
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de Windt, Tommy S, Vonk, Lucienne A, Slaper-Cortenbach, Ineke C M, van den Broek, Marcel P H, Nizak, Razmara, van Rijen, Mattie H P, de Weger, Roel A, Dhert, Wouter J A & Saris, Daniel B F (2017). Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells Stimulate Cartilage Regeneration and Are Safe for Single-Stage Cartilage Repair in Humans upon Mixture with Recycled Autologous Chondrons. Stem Cells, 35 (1), (pp. 256-264). © 2016 The Authors Stem Cells published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of AlphaMed Press..
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Poldervaart, Michelle T., Goversen, Birgit, De Ruijter, Mylene, Abbadessa, Anna, Melchels, Ferry P.W., Öner, F. Cumhur, Dhert, Wouter J.A., Vermonden, Tina & Alblas, Jacqueline (01.06.2017). 3D bioprinting of methacrylated hyaluronic acid (MeHA) hydrogel with intrinsic osteogenicity. PLoS One, 12 (6).
