Geert Carmeliet

Geert Carmeliet started her doctoral work, as medical doctor, in the Centre of Human Genetics and obtained her PhD in Biomedical Sciences and Certification in Paediatrics at the KU Leuven, Belgium. She is Professor in Medicine, has been involved in training and teaching medical students and PhD students and has been Chairman of the Division of Clinical and Experimental Endocrinology, KU Leuven.

The lab (www.Mebodd.com) investigated the importance of vitamin D signalling and angiogenesis in bone development and disorders, but focusses now on how oxygen and nutrient supply might control skeletal cell fate and function. Our research aims to understand how cell metabolism regulates the fate and functioning of different skeletal cell types using in vivo van in vitro approaches. Besides investigating bone development  we also want to understand how disturbed skeletal cell metabolism contributes to bone pathologies such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and bone metastasis and how targeting skeletal cell metabolism can improve tissue engineering approaches for large bone defects.