Dr. Monique M.A. Verstegen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC Transplant Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam. She completed her Ph.D. studies at the Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC. She undertook postdoctoral research at the same department and served as a Marie Curie Fellow in Hannover, Germany. She is actively involved in projects focusing on the development of liver scaffolds for tissue and organ engineering, mechanisms of biliary epithelium regeneration after injury, and primary liver cancer research using the liver-organoid culture system. Her research interests include liver transplantation and stem cell biology.