Professor of Experimental Surgery
University Medical Center Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands
Ton Lisman is a biochemist with a profound interest in translational clinical research. He received his PhD at the Department of Hematology from the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands on a thesis on the mechanism of action of recombinant coagulation factor VIIa in 2002. Since 2007, he works at the Surgical Research Laboratory and the Section of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation at the Department of Surgery of the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He was appointed full professor of Experimental Surgery in 2015. His research interests include hemostasis in liver disease and liver surgery, the role of hemostatic components in damage and repair of liver tissue, and the role of the fibrinolytic system in thrombosis. These topics are studied in close collaboration with local and international clinical partners, which include surgeons, hepatologists, hematologists, intensivists, and anethesiologists.
http://www.rug.nl/staff/j.a.lisman/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=lisman+t