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Fellowships EmbRACE consortium

Fellowships EmbRACE consortium

21 May 2026

The EmbRACE consortium, coordinated by CARIM, has awarded three fellowships, including two to CARIM researchers.

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NWO grant for project 'Laminomics'

NWO grant for project 'Laminomics'

21 May 2026

Tim van de Wiel, Dr Magdalena Harakalova, and Dr Rogier Veltrop (Dept of Biochemistry) have been awarded an NWO grant for large-scale high-performance computing time.

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Barend Mees

Assistant Professor

Dr Barend Mees studied medicine at LUMC in Leiden and completed his training as General and Vascular Surgeon at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. He subsequently spent almost three years in Melbourne, Australia, to further specialise in Endovascular Surgery. Since May 2014 he has been a consultant Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon in the Department of Vascular Surgery at Maastricht UMC+ and UniKlinik Aachen, Germany. His clinical area of interest is the (endovascular) treatment of (complex) aortic disease and peripheral arterial disease. He is the research coordinator of the Department of Vascular Surgery and has obtained a PhD in Vascular Biology from Erasmus MC, INSERM (U689, Paris) and Max-Planck Institute (Bad Nauheim, Germany).

His main research focus areas are vascular biology, tissue engineering and innovative endovascular techniques. He is member of the leadership of the Cardiovascular Moonshot of RegMedXB and member of the management team of the InScite XS-GRAFT project. He is the inventor of the MAZE Box, a novel hands-on simulator for Endovascular Surgery and tutor for Vascular International. Dr Mees has been examiner of the UEMS FEBVS examination since 2017. He is organiser of the I-MEET congress and co-director of the European Vascular Course.

Barend-mees

Department of Vascular Surgery
P. Debeyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
T:+31(0)43 387 74 78

  • 2026
    • Rasiah, M. G., Konings, T. J. A. J., Nio, A., Moriconi, S., Patel, A. S., Smith, A., Gkoutzios, P., Abdelhalim, M. A., Delhaas, T., Cardoso, M. J., Lamata, P., Mees, B. M. E., & Modarai, B. (2026). In silico modelling of changes in spinal cord blood flow after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 280, Article 109336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2026.109336
    • Davies, H., Boalot, A., Howitt, A., Vleugels, M.-J., Tam, S. K. P., Kwan, J. Y., Black, S., Francis, I., Bull, C., Mees, B. M. E., Mitchell, S., & Russell, D. (2026). Analgesic strategies for ischaemic pain in chronic limb-threatening ischaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Pain reports, 11(2), Article e1426. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001426
    • Atash, A., Mees, B. M. E., Cramer, M. J., Baas, A. F., Schurgers, L. J., Doevendans, P. A., & Stillitano, F. (2026). MYH11 variants in thoracic aortic aneurysm pathophysiology: From bench to bedside. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 56(4), Article e70196. https://doi.org/10.1111/eci.70196
    • Frankort, J., Keszei, A., Doukas, P., Uhl, C., Jacobs, M. J., Mees, B. M. E., Gombert, A., & Elfeky, M. (2026). Outcome following open TAAA repair after TEVAR compared to conventional open type II TAAA repair. Vasa-European Journal of Vascular Medicine, 55(2 Special Issue:Complex aortic pathologies), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.1024/0301-1526/a001247
    • Frankort, J., Doukas, P., Krabbe, J., Otte, N., Uhl, C., Schurink, G. W., Gombert, A., Jacobs, M. J., & Mees, B. M. E. (2026). Outcomes Following Contemporary Open Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Extent I Repair: A Cross-Border Study. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 68(3), Article ezag104. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezag104
    • Francesco Squizzato, U., D'Oria, M., Antonello, M., Trimarchi, S., Mani, K., Holden, A., Kölbel, T., Haulon, S., Verhoeven, E., Böckler, D., Resch, T., Azizzadeh, A., Lombardi, J., Piazza, M., Fargion, A. T., Zimmermann, A., Wanhainen, A., Holden, A., Freyrie, A., ... IDEAAS-IMH/PAU Investigators (2026). Editor's Choice – International Expert Consensus on the Management of Acute Aortic Type B Intramural Haematoma and Penetrating Ulcer. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 71(3), 402-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2025.09.045
    • Vleugels, M.-J., Moser, A., van den Beuken-van Everdingen, M., Mees, B., & Hendriks, J. M. (2026). Nurses in the lead: advancement of integrated palliative care and professional autonomy in peripheral arterial disease. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 25(2), 217-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvag005
    • Wanhainen, A., Gombert, A., Antoniou, G. A., Domingos, L. A. F., Gouveia e Melo, R., Grabenwoger, M., Haulon, S., Katsargyris, A., Kolbel, T., Loftus, I. M., Mani, K., Mees, B. M. E., Melissano, G., Pedro, L. M., Prendes, C. F., Spanos, K., Tsilimparis, N., Van Herzeele, I., Venermo, M., ... Vermassen, F. E. G. (2026). European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2026 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Descending Thoracic and Thoraco-Abdominal Aortic Diseases – Editor's Choice. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 71(2), 172-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejvs.2025.12.050
    • Greenleaf, E. K., Maximus, S., Oden-Brunson, H., Ferreira, Z. C., Miranda, J., Huang, Y., Mees, B., & Oderich, G. S. (2026). Historical Evolution of Physician-Modified Endografts (PMEGs) for Treatment of Complex Aortic Aneurysms. Annals of Vascular Surgery, 123, 636-652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2025.10.015
    • Barb, A., Uhl, C., Bornhak, L., El-Sanosy, E., Fink, M., Böckler, D., Hatzl, J., Zephyr study group collaborators, & Mees, B. (2026). Accuracy of fully automated iliac artery tortuosity measurements in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm using deep learning. European Journal of Radiology, 195, Article 112609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2025.112609
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