Prof. Dr. Niels Geijsen

Prof. Dr. Niels Geijsen received his PhD at Utrecht University in 2000 studying cytokine signaling in the hematopoietic system. He completed his post-doctoral training in the lab of Dr. George Daley at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research where he pioneered a method for the in vitro generation of germ cells from embryonic stem cells. He is Professor at Utrecht University and he has his own research group at Hubrecht Institute. Dr. Geijsen’s research focuses on understanding the biology of pluripotent stem cells and developing new stem-cell based tools to explore human development and oncogenic transformation. He is also member of the scientific advisory committee at InnoSer and cofounder of Ntrans Technologies.