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Marc Bierings

Associate Professor - medical

Biography

Marc Bierings is a pediatric hematologist. He studied medicine at the University of Utrecht. He subsequently obtained his PhD in Rotterdam on transplacental iron transport (cum laude) and then trained as a pediatrician in Utrecht.

The Dutch Cancer Society then awarded him a fellowship in pediatric hemato-oncology. He worked in the University Hospitals of Tubingen, Germany and  Amsterdam to train as a pediatric hemato-oncologist. After finishing his fellowship he became a member of staff at the Utrecht University Children’s Hospital and has been head of the department of pediatric hematology since 2005.

He spent 6 months in the department of hematology at St Louis Hospital, Paris with prof Eliane Gluckman in 2005.

He is also program director of the pediatric stem cell transplantation program, one of 2 such teams in the Netherlands. Within the Dutch Childhood Oncology Group he holds positions as chair of the Fanconi and aplastic anemia groups, the stem cell group and is member of several ALL committees of the DCOG.

His main interests are in the role of allogeneic stem cell transplantation in pediatric malignancies and marrow failure syndromes.

He represents the pediatric oncologists in the Cooperation Board of the Princess Maxima Centre, as a board member of the DCOG.

Recent publications

Improved survival with model-based dosing of antithymocyte globulin in pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation Rick Admiraal, Stefan Nierkens, Marc B. Bierings, Mirjam E. Belderbos, Alwin D. Huitema, Robbert G.M. Bredius, Yilin Jiang, Kevin J. Curran, Andromachi Scaradavou, Maria I. Cancio, Elizabeth Klein, Wouter J. Kollen, Dorine Bresters, Friso G.J. Calkoen, A. Birgitta Versluijs, C. Michel Zwaan, Jaap Jan Boelens, Caroline A. Lindemans
Blood Advances, 2025, vol. 9, p.2344-2353
Who owns that blood? Mirjam E Belderbos, Marc Bierings, Noa van Bergeijk, Ghislaine J W M van Thiel
Hemasphere, 2025, vol. 9
Increased Clonal Hematopoiesis in Long-term Survivors of Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Konradin F. Müskens, Nienke Wieringa, Maaike G.J.M. van Bergen, Joëll E. Bense, Brigit M. Te Pas, Anne P.J. de Pagter, Arjan C. Lankester, Marc B. Bierings, Donna S. Neuberg, Saskia Haitjema, Leontien C.M. Kremer, Gerwin A. Huls, Stefan Nierkens, Joop H. Jansen, Caroline A. Lindemans, Aniek O. de Graaf, Mirjam E. Belderbos
Blood cancer discovery, 2025, vol. 6, p.110-118
Donor cytomegalovirus serology impacts overall survival in children receiving first unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplant for acute leukemia Elif Ince, Jaques-Emmanuel Galimard, Marianne Ifversen, Arnaud Dalissier, Zofia Szmit, Oana Mirci-Danicar, Franco Locatelli, Petr Sedlacek, Jan Styczynski, Jean-Hugues Dalle, Cecile Renard, Adriana Balduzzi, Arjan Lankester, Marc Bierings, Franca Fagioli, Katrine Kielsen, Fanny Rialland, Jochen Büchner, Mervi Taskinen, Robert Wynn, Charlotte Jubert, Gérard Michel, Herbert Pichler, Gergely Krivan, Simone Cesaro, Selim Corbacioglu, Roland Meisel, Krzysztof Kalwak
Haematologica, 2024, vol. 110, p.985-989
Influence of invasive aspergillosis during acute leukaemia treatment on survival after allogeneic stem cell transplantation Olaf Penack, Gloria Tridello, Urpu Salmenniemi, Rodrigo Martino, Nina Khanna, Katia Perruccio, Franca Fagioli, Monika Richert-Przygonska, Hélène Labussière-Wallet, Johan Maertens, Charlotte Jubert, Mahmoud Aljurf, Herbert Pichler, Gergely Kriván, Desiree Kunadt, Marina Popova, Melissa Gabriel, Elisabetta Calore, Igor Wolfgang Blau, Fabio Benedetti, Maija Itäla-Remes, Elizabeth de Kort, Domenico Russo, Maura Faraci, Anne-Lise Ménard, Peter von dem Borne, Xavier Poiré, Akif Yesilipek, Jolanta Gozdzik, Zeynep Arzu Yeğin, Lucrecia Yañez, Luca Facchini, Gwendolyn Van Gorkom, Lorenz Thurner, Ulker Kocak, Antònia Sampol, Tsila Zuckerman, Marc Bierings, Stephan Mielke, Fabio Ciceri, Lotus Wendel, Nina Knelange, Malgorzata Mikulska, Dina Averbuch, Jan Styczynski, Rafael de la Camara, Simone Cesaro
EClinicalMedicine, 2024, vol. 67
Definitions matter Konradin F. Müskens, Winny N.R. Collot-d'Escury, Rana Dandis, Saskia Haitjema, Jürgen Kuball, Moniek A. de Witte, Marc Bierings, Caroline A. Lindemans, Stefan Nierkens, Mirjam E. Belderbos
Hemasphere, 2024, vol. 8

Fellowships & Awards

  • 1995 - 1997 KWF fellowship