Assistant Professor
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Biography
Dr. van Mil is a biomedical scientist and group leader in the laboratory of Experimental Cardiology within the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht. He obtained his PhD in 2012 in the University Medical Center Utrecht where he studied the role of microRNAs in cardiac regeneration and subsequently moved to the US for a postdoctoral fellowship in Sanford-Burnham, La Jolla, where he first came to work with pluripotent stem cells and in vitro 3D cardiac tissue models. After his return to the Netherlands, he continued his research in the UMC Utrecht using pluripotent stem cells, applying them for cardiac disease modelling. In 2016 he moved to the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht, where he established an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) facility for the generation of iPSCs and iPSC-derived cardiac cells which are key to his research. His research team aims to identify new therapeutic targets and develop regenerative treatments for heart failure, by using advanced human in vitro cardiac disease models and innovative cardiac tissue engineering approaches, using iPSC technology, biomaterials and 3D printing.
