Daan Ophelders

Daan Ophelders is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, specialising in translational neonatology. His research focuses on the inflammatory response in foetal and neonatal organs under perinatal stress, including intra-amniotic infections, hypoxia-ischemia, and mechanical ventilation. He has been instrumental in developing advanced large animal models to investigate these mechanisms and to test therapeutic interventions, particularly cell-based therapies.