Ingrid van der Pluijm

Ingrid van der Pluijm is an Associate Professor at Erasmus MC, affiliated with the Department of Molecular Genetics. Her research spans DNA repair mechanisms, vascular biology, cardiovascular diseases, and aging, with recent work focusing on dietary restriction, cardiac fibulin-4, and stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

Research Interests include DNA damage response in progeroid models, vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction, and molecular pathways underlying heart failure. Her work intersects molecular genetics and translational medicine, utilizing mouse models to study aging-related pathologies.

Scientific Contributions highlight her role in 66 research outputs, including studies on:

• Modulating the cGAS-STING pathway in vascular aging
• Cardiac fibulin-4 as a protective agent in heart failure
• Stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte differentiation protocols
• Social frailty indices in aging mice

Current collaborations involve institutions like the University of Minnesota, C57BL/6 mouse models, and interdisciplinary teams in molecular imaging and cell biology.