Dr. J.J.F. (Jelle) Sleeboom
Dr. J.J.F. (Jelle) Sleeboom
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Biography
Jelle Sleeboom, born in Utrecht in 1989, obtained his both BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Here, he mostly worked on microfluidic technology, including trapping devices for probing the mechanics of soft particles, and encapsulation devices for brain-on-chip applications. He also spent some time at Harvard's Wyss Institute in Boston, USA, where he worked on a microfluidic model of the Blood Brain Barrier.
He obtained his PhD in the Soft Tissue Engineering & Mechanobiology (STEM) and Microsystems groups at TU/e in 2020. His thesis was titled "Microfluidic models of metastasis: In vitro approaches to study the tumor microenvironment". After his defense, he did a postdoc at TU/e, continuing on the topic of cancer cell migration in microfluidic devices.
In 2022, he joined the Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics group of prof.dr. Amir Zadpoor, for a joint project with prof. Luc van der Laan at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. In this project, he works on novel 3D and 4D bioprinting techniques to create living models of human liver tissue.
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Publications
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2024
The extracellular matrix as hallmark of cancer and metastasis
From biomechanics to therapeutic targets
Jelle J.F. Sleeboom / Gilles S. van Tienderen / Katja Schenke-Layland / Luc J.W. van der Laan / Antoine A. Khalil / Monique M.A. Verstegen