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About the Moderator

Klazina Kooiman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
LabTAU (INSERM), Lyon, France
Biomedical Diagnostics Lab,
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Klazina Kooiman received the M.Sc. degree with honors (cum laude) in Biopharmaceutical Sciences, specializing in pharmaceutical technology, from Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in ultrasound contrast agents for therapy from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2011. Following her Ph.D., she held successive academic positions at Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, first as a postdoctoral fellow, then as Assistant Professor (2015–2020), and subsequently as Associate Professor (2020–2025) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Thoraxcenter. In 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

She is currently an Associate Professor at LabTAU (INSERM) in Lyon, France, and at the Biomedical Diagnostics Lab, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the theragnostic field of ultrasound-activated microbubbles (1–8 µm) for local drug delivery and ultrasound molecular imaging of cardiovascular disease and cancer. To elucidate the mechanisms of microbubble-mediated drug delivery, she employs multidisciplinary translational approaches at the interface of engineering, biology, and pharmacy.
Her research targets endothelial cells for vascular drug delivery and bacterial biofilms in infective endocarditis, including infections associated with cardiac devices. She is the co-director of the annual European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Imaging and co-chair of the Contrast Agents Track of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium. She has served as a board member of the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound (ISTU) since September 2024.