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Bart Vaes, PhD
Associate Director, Site Leader
Bart holds a PhD in Biosciences from the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has a strong background in mesenchymal stem cell research with a focus on microarray analysis of differentiating osteoblasts. He extended his knowledge on transcriptomics and bone research during a predoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. He worked as a postdoc at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, where he studied the influence of nutritional factors on mesenchymal stem cell differentiation.
In 2010 I started my work as a senior scientist at ReGenesys. My main responsibility is to supervise a project that aims to cultivate MultiStem® under xeno-free (serum-free) conditions. Besides this project, I perform and supervise research on mesenchymal stem cell characteristics. This is my first job in a company. I experience the working in a young, small, but growing company which develops a stem cell product for clinical purposes, both as a challenge and a great opportunity; since I truly believe that stem cell based therapies will be a major breakthrough in medical sciences in the future. This feeling makes us a strong and driven team, and we really feel that we can make a significant contribution to improve human health.
