Ron Heeren

Meet Ron Heeren

Career highlight
Building M4I and establishing translational clinical molecular imaging. On a more scientific level, the development of Timepix-based detection systems (originating from CERN) for protein imaging mass spectrometry was an amazing highlight.

Most successful collaboration
First, a collaboration with Steven Olde-Damink, a surgeon here in Maastricht. Second, my collaboration with all of my PhDs and postdocs, without whom I would not be where I am now.

Where is mass spectrometry headed?
To the clinic, where molecular identities, molecular localization and dynamics can be monitored at different diagnostics levels both in vivo and ex vivo.