Professor Clemens van Blitterswijk, PhD, joined LSP in 2012. He became a Partner of the firm in that same year. Clemens’ prime focus and responsibility within LSP is to invest in private companies. Prior to joining LSP, Clemens is the Department Chair and Professor at MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Clemens has founded nine companies over the years. He is recipient of numerous national and international awards like recently “the most entrepreneurial professor of the Netherlands”. Clemens brings over two decades of entrepreneurial science to the LSP team. He has authored and co-authored over 350 scientific papers and is inventor on more than 100 patents. He has published three books as an editor, and contributed to many more as a contributing author. Clemens is a biologist by training and has a PhD in Medicine from Leiden University. He lives in Ruigahuizen, Friesland with his wife and has two daughters.