E. Cuypers

The research group is focusing on the development and translation of Mass Spectrometry Imaging  based methods towards clinical applications. This includes new, fast and objective detection methods of disease markers in biological samples, but also intra-operative diagnostics to visualize and identify ‘on the spot’ the tissue or disease type, tumor border, cancer cells,…

All research project have a highly and direct translatable purpose keeping the end-users, mostly clinicians, in mind. The main research focus is translating molecular insights into clinical solutions by developing methods and products that will have an added value in the strive towards personalized medicine.

Dr. Cuypers obtained in 2008 her PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences-Toxicology at KU Leuven (Belgium). She did a Postdoc in Forensic Toxicology at KU Leuven (2009-2014, Belgium) and AMOLF (2013-1014, The Netherlands). In 2015 she was appointed as Assistant Professor Forensic Toxicology at KU Leuven. In 2019 she moved to M4i, University Maastricht as Senior Research and she was Guest Professor at KU Leuven (2019-2022). In 2021, she was appointed as Assistant Professor and became Group Leader of her research group focusing on Mass Spectrometry Imaging in Peri-Operative Diagnostics.