Prof.dr. Robert Passier
university of twente - applied stem cell technology
Passier was appointed as Professor and Chair of the Dept. of AST at the UT in 2015 and as Professor at Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in 2017. At the UT and LUMC he combines human stem cell technologies and micro-engineering technologies in order to build highly advanced “heart-on-chip” systems (either 2D or 3D) for modelling cardiac disease, drug screening and regenerative medicine. Passier is leader of research theme “heart disease” of the Institute for Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies (hDMT). Passier is a co-founder of Pluriomics (2011) and River BioMedics (2018).