Caroline de Theije

Caroline de Theije is Assistant Professor at the Department for Developmental Origins of Disease at University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has a background in medical biology. She graduated from the Utrecht University with a PhD in Nutritional Neuroscience and focused her PhD and postdoc research on the effects of cell-based and nutrition-based therapies to enhance postnatal neurodevelopment. Her current research focusses on the potency of cell-derived and milk-derived extracellular vesicles to treat neonatal brain injury and investigates the underlying therapeutic mechanisms.