Prof. Dr. Martijn van Griensven

Martijn van Griensven (1974) studied in Leiden (NL) and was trained in Hannover (D). He was appointed as full professor for experimental trauma surgery in 2002 and at that time he was the youngest professor in Germany. In 2005, he became co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna (A). In 2011, he was appointed as director of Experimental Trauma Surgery at the Technical University of Munich (D). Since September 2019, he is full professor of regenerative medicine and head of the department of Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering of the MERLN Institute at Maastricht University (NL). Since February 2023, he is vice director of MERLN. He is also affiliated to the Musculoskeletal Gene Therapy Research Group (Prof. Chris Evans), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He is a visiting professor at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima (Peru). He is professor at the UNESCO chair for biomaterials, Universidad de la Habana (Cuba). His main research areas are related to diagnostic and therapy methods for the musculoskeletal system with a strong pathway from pathogenetic causes to translational regenerative medicine focusing on molecular biology cues (e.g., miRNA, mRNA, mechanotransduction etc.). Furthermore, he is interested in the crosstalk between organs after (traumatic) injuries. He has received several awards with the most recent one in 2026 the “career achievement award” of TERMIS-EU. He has published 384 peer reviewed papers, 3 patents, 32 book chapters and he has edited 4 books.