European Journal of Medical Research

Prof Edwin Bölke studied medicine at the University of Tübingen from 1983 to 1990, and finished his medical thesis in 1993. He completed the American national medical boards and has worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, Montefiore Hospital New York, Harbor UCLA, Los Angeles and at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. From 1998 to 2003, Prof Bölke was a specialist in the Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Ulm, and a specialist in radiation oncology at the University Hospital in Düsseldorf since 2003.

Prof Bölke is a specialist in surgery, visceral surgery, emergency medicine, and has further training in surgical intensive care medicine and sports medicine. He works as a full time specialist in radiation oncology at the University of Düsseldorf. Since 2010, Prof Bölke has been a senior physician at the Clinic for Radiation Oncology at the University Hospital in Düsseldorf. He has been a professor for radiation oncology at the University of Düsseldorf since 2012. He is an author of more than 185 papers in PubMed.

Prof Dr Martijn van Griensven is Full Professor of regenerative medicine and Chair of the Department Cell Biology-Inspired Tissue Engineering (cBITE) at the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University, Netherlands. Martijn studied in Leiden, Netherlands and subsequently obtained his PhD in Hannover, Germany. In 2002, he was appointed as Professor for experimental trauma surgery and became co-director of the LBI for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology in Vienna, Austria in 2005. He was appointed as Head of experimental trauma surgery at the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2011. 

He is a visiting Professor at Universidad Peruane Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and Professor at the UNESCO Chair for biomaterials at Universidad de la Habana, Cuba. Furthermore, he is an official Associate Researcher at the Musculoskeletal Gene Research Group at the Department of Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, USA. His research areas are related to engineering methods for the musculoskeletal system.