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Associate professor of Pathology
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After graduating in Medical Biology at the university of Utrecht in 1991, Dr. Cleutjens obtained her PhD from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1997 on basis of her thesis on the regulation of prostate-specific antigen expression. After working as a postdoc at the Erasmus University, she joined the department of Pathology at Universiteit Maastricht in 1998, were she became a staff member in 2001. Currently she guides pre-clinical and experimental studies to elucidate molecular mechanisms in atherosclerotic plaque (in)stability and the identification and validation of new diagnostic and/or prognostic biomarkers of plaque vulnerability and plaque rupture. In 2007, she was appointed as member of the council Pathogenesis of the Dutch Heart Association.
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