prof. dr. F.P.J.G. (Floris) Lafeber Full Professor
- Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
Contact
f.lafeber@umcutrecht.nl
Research Programs
Biography
Floris Lafeber (1961) is professor of ‘Experimental Rheumatology’ at the UMC Utrecht. He studied Biology at the University of Nijmegen (NL; graduated Nov 1984) and did his PhD at this University in collaboration with the Univerity of Leiden (NL), with a visit of three months at the department of Physiology, Univ. of Ottawa (Canada) (graduated April 1988). He is scientifically active in the field of ‘Regenerative Medicine’ and ‘Immunology’.
Currently, his main research interest is in 1) Implementation of joint distraction in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis; 2) The potential of IL4-10 synerkine in control of cartilage damage, inflammation, and pain in osteoarthritis (and haemophilic arthropathy); 3) The prediction of progression and response to treatment in osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and haemophilic arthropathy.
Floris Lafeber is (co-)author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 48), of which more than half in the top 10% of the field. He co-supervised 30 PhD students with several additionally scheduled. He has several patent (provisional) in the fields described above, and gained over his career for more than 15 million Euros research funding from the Dutch Arthritis Association, government, and industry. At present he is manager of research and head of research laboratory of the department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, UMCU (3 days/week)
Side Activities
Manager Research of the Division of Internal Medicine & Dermatology (2018 - present) 1 day/week
Director (CSO), co-founder, and shareholder of ArthroSave BV (2016 - present) 2 days / week
Member of the steering committee of APPROACH within IMI (2015-2021)
Member of: OsteoArthritis Research Society International (OARSI); Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS); and International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) (present)
Member of the Advisory Board Biobanking (2019-present)
Consultant: SynerkinePharma BV
Reviewer for several international journals and funding agencies
Research Output (356)
Steen-Louws Cristine, Boross Peter, Prado Judith, Meeldijk Jan, Langenhorst Jurgen B, Huitema Alwin D R, den Hartog Marcel T, Boon Louis, Lafeber Floris P J G, Hack C Erik, Eijkelkamp Niels, Popov-Celeketic Jelena dec 2019, In: Pharmaceutical Research. 37
Verhoeven Maxime M.A., De Hair Marjolein J.H., Tekstra Janneke, Bijlsma Johannes W.J., Van Laar Jacob M., Pethoe-Schramm Attila, Borm Michelle E.A., Ter Borg Evert Jan, Linn-Rasker Suzanne P., Teitsma Xavier M., Lafeber Floris P.J.G., Jacobs Johannes W.G., Welsing Paco M.J. 1 okt 2019, In: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 78 , p. 1333-1338 6 p.
Verhoeven M. M.A., Welsing P. M.J., Bijlsma J. W.J., van Laar J. M., Lafeber F. P.J.G., Tekstra J., Jacobs J. W.G. 23 apr 2019, In: Current Rheumatology Reports. 21
Besselink N. J., Westgeest A. A.A., Klaasen R., Gamala M., Van Woerkom J. M., Tekstra J., Verhoeven M. M.A., Van Spil W. E., Lafeber F. P.J.G., Marijnissen A. C.A., Van Laar J. M., Jacobs J. W.G. 17 apr 2019, In: Trials. 20
Roodenrijs Nadia M.T., van der Goes Marlies C., Welsing Paco M.J., Tekstra Janneke, van Laar Jacob M., Lafeber Floris P.J.G., Bijlsma Johannes W.J., Jacobs Johannes W.G. 11 apr 2019, In: Joint Bone Spine. 87 , p. 13-23 11 p.
Besselink N. J., Jacobs J. W.G., Westgeest A. A.A., Van Der Meijde P., Welsing P. M.J., Marijnissen A. C.A., Lafeber F. P.J.G., Van Spil W. E. 1 feb 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14
Van Helvoort E. M., Popov-Celeketic J., Eijkelkamp N., Coeleveld K., Tryfonidou M. A., Wijne C. D., Hack C. E., Lafeber F. P.J.G., Mastbergen S. C. 1 jan 2019, In: PLoS ONE. 14 18 p.
Roodenrijs Nadia M.T., de Hair Maria J.H., Wheater Gill, Elshahaly Mohsen, Tekstra Janneke, Teng Y. K.Onno, Lafeber Floris P.J.G., Hwang Ching Chang, Liu Xinyu, Sasso Eric H., van Laar Jacob M. 20 nov 2018, In: Arthritis research & therapy. 20 1 p.
Pulles Astrid E, Lafeber Floris P J G, van Vulpen Lize F D 19 sep 2018, In: Rheumatology (Oxford, England). 58 , p. 565-566 2 p.
Steen-Louws C., Popov-Celeketic J., Mastbergen S. C., Coeleveld K., Hack C. E., Eijkelkamp N., Tryfonidou M., Spruijt S., van Roon J. A.G., Lafeber F. P.J.G. 1 aug 2018, In: Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 26 , p. 1127-1135 9 p.