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    Hugo ten Cate, MD, PhD, FAHA (he/him/his)

    Professor, MD, PhD
    Thrombosis Expertise Center, Heart & Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
    Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

    Hugo ten Cate
    Graduated in medicine at the University of Amsterdam in 1987 and obtained a PhD degree based on an academic thesis on the Clinical and experimental studies with a low molecular weight heparinoid, at the University of Amsterdam in 1987. Between 1988 and1990 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the laboratory of prof Robert D Rosenberg and dr. Kenneth A Bauer, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston where he studied mechanisms of thrombosis using novel coagulation activation markers. Next, he completed training in Internal medicine at Slotervaart hospital and Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, combining it with translational research at Sanquin (prof Erik Hack) and at the Academic Medical Center (laboratory of Experimental Internal medicine, prof Pieter Reitsma). After being awarded a Clinical Established Investigatorship from the Dutch Heart Foundation he joined the Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+) and Cardiovascular Research Institute (CARIM) in 2002 as a Principal investigator and Professor in Internal medicine, particularly in Clinical Thrombosis and Haemostasis. He is the Director of the Maastricht Thrombosis Expertise Center, at the Heart and Vascular Center, MUMC+, a staff member of the division of Vascular Medicine, dept. of Internal medicine and Division leader Blood and board member CARIM. Between 2012 and 2016 he was a Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College, Gutenberg University and since 2017 Adjunct-professor, Center for Thrombosis and Haemostasis (CTH), Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.
    His main lines of research center around mechanisms of venous and arterial thrombosis, which he explores in translational research within several (inter)national consortia. He published over 450 articles.

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