Kristiaan Wouters
kwouters.bsky.social
Kristiaan Wouters
@kwouters.bsky.social
Associate Professor Translational Immunometabolism Maastricht University. Immunologist investigating cardiometabolic diseases.
Likes science, music and sports. Loves his wife and kids.
Thrilled and honoured to chair the #VeniVidiVici session at #CARIMday2025! It's inspiring to see so many talented researchers achieving success in securing grants. Especially proud to serve as Chair of the Carim Research Council and witness this incredible progress! 👏🎉 @carimmaastricht.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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@sabinedaemen.bsky.social investigates how immune cells can repair liver fibrosis. A big step toward fighting one of the world’s most pressing metabolic diseases and emerging CVD risk factor.

#CARIMday2025 #MASLD #Veni
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Join now on www.youtube.com/live/17cD_lN... for our annual CARIM+HVC Symposium
CARIM+HVC Symposium 2025
YouTube video by Maastricht University
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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@tilman-hackeng.bsky.social kicks off the #CARIMday2025. It will be a great day to celebrate #Cardiovascular research and working together.
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
At the #ADDRM, @sabinedaemen.bsky.social, postdoc in my group, presented her work on sex differences in a mouse model of #MASH, an area where most data still rely on male mice. She found sex-specific differences in hepatic steatosis, fibrosis progression, and glucose intolerance.👏🐭🔬
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs

We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome

Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London

Apply here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Kicked off the #EU-RESOLVE COST Action last week - a network advancing research on #inflammation #resolution
I co-lead WG5, building a Knowledge Hub on insights in resolution biology. We want this hub to grow, so join us and help shape this valuable resource!
www.cost.eu/actions/CA24138/
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Kicked off the #EU-RESOLVE COST Action last week - a network advancing research on #inflammation #resolution
I co-lead WG5, building a Knowledge Hub on insights in resolution biology. We want this hub to grow, so join us and help shape this valuable resource!
www.cost.eu/actions/CA24138/
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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#thesisdefence Tomorrow, Sara D'Haese will defend the thesis 'Mitigating diabetic cardiomyopathy: Evaluating exercise training and pyridoxamine as cardioprotective approaches’ at 16:00h @maastrichtu.bsky.social @kwouters.bsky.social

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#phdlife #phddefence #GradSchool #doctorate
June 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
What.A.Guy. Best advice and applicable to about everything. "Stop whining. What are You doing?" There will always be obstacles. @schwarzenegger.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Schwarzenegger: Hey, stop whining, do something on climate change
The actor and activist was speaking to the BBC at a summit organised by his Climate Initiative.
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Inspiring presentation of Gemma Figtree at #EASCongress2025 on treating #atherosclerosis as a disease rather than traditional risk factors, especially considering that 25% of MI patients show none of them.
May 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#EASCongress2025 kicks off with a bang. Paul Ridker gives the Anitschkow lecture on targeting #inflammation to target #atherosclerosis. #cardiovascular #CVD
May 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Kudos @GCN for a balanced analysis on claims that #exercise does not induce #weightloss: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUGF...
As mentioned here (bjsm.bmj.com/content/59/2...) it's about adherence.
For me, first 20-25kg were dietary pattern changes (not dieting), the next few kg definitely exercise.
The Biggest Lie About Weight Loss And Exercise
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
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January 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy to share our latest publication showing that adiposity differentially affects immune cells in fat depots based on #sex during #obesity development. rdcu.be/d36Dx. @lisatschuetz.bsky.social al @biekebroux.bsky.social roux.bsky.social
#immunosky
Sex differentially affects pro-inflammatory cell subsets in adipose tissue depots in a diet induced obesity model
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December 19, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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A review for those of us (me!) who only really know foamy macrophage in the context of cardiovascular pathology:
#immunology

journals.aai.org/jimmunol/art...
An Insight into the Role of IL-10 and Foamy Macrophages in Infectious Diseases
Abstract. Dysregulation of lipid homeostasis causes the deposition of lipids in the form of tiny droplets within foamy macrophages (FMs). In FMs, host-deri
journals.aai.org
December 6, 2024 at 7:33 AM