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Jeffrey Beekman

Jeffrey Beekman PhD

Pediatric Pulmonary
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Dr. J.M. Beekman is associate professor and affiliated with the department of Pediatric Pulmonology and the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht. He leads a research group that develops stem cell based culture and assay technology to model human pulmonary disease, and currently mostly focusses on (personalized) treatment of cystic fibrosis. He has been trained in molecular and cellular biology within an immunological context, and became principle investigator in 2010. He received various prizes including the 2017 European CF society award, the 2017 European Respiratory Society Excellence Award for research in Cystic Fibrosis, and the 2017 ‘Willy van Heumen’ prize for alternatives to animal experiments. He was invited speaker at approximately 40 (international) meetings over the last years.
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