JanWillem Duitman is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam UMC. He is an expert on the biology of pulmonary fibrosis and the underlying mechanisms with a focus on the role of fibroblasts and alveolar type II cells. He received his M.S. at the University of Exeter and his Ph.D. at the Academisch Medisch Centrum Universiteit van Amsterdam. After that, he was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Academisch Medisch Centrum, and Paris Diderot University. He is also a member of the European Respiratory Society and the Netherlands Respiratory Society.
Maarten F. Bijlsma received his master’s degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Amsterdam in 2002 and obtained his PhD from the same university’s Faculty of Medicine in 2008. Most of his work has focused on the mechanisms underlying developmental signaling in both embryonic tissues as well as human disease. After his postdoctoral research at other institutes including the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to the Academic Medical Center as a Junior Group Leader and is currently Associate Professor at the Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Amsterdam UMC. His research focuses on pancreatic and esophageal cancer, from the most fundamental mechanisms that underlie aberrant signaling in these diseases, to the development of serum-borne markers in patient cohorts to predict treatment response and disease outcome.
