Our website uses cookies. We use cookies to remember settings and to help provide you with the best experience we can. We also use cookies to continuously improve our website by compiling visitor statistics. Read more about cookies

Mirjam Belderbos

Principal Investigator
Mirjam Belderbos
Mirjam Belderbos

My research vision is that innovative, fundamental research on hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) biology is required to advance the understanding, care and cure of children suffering from hematologic disease.

Phone 088-9727272



Dr. Belderbos is a principal investigator and pediatric oncologist in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. After obtaining her PhD in 2012, she moved to Groningen, where she combined clinical training in pediatrics with postdoctoral research at the European Institute for the Biology of Ageing (ERIBA) in Groningen. Here, she pioneered a cellular barcoding method to trace the clonal dynamics of normal hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia in murine xenografts. Her research demonstrated that leukemia contains thousands of leukemia-propagating cells, with selection and evolution characteristic of disease progression. In parallel, she applied cellular barcodes to unravel the frequency and lineage-fate decisions of normal human HSCs. She showed that <1% of cord blood (CB) CD34+ cells produces offspring in murine xenografts, with marked heterogeneity between donors.

In 2017, she joined the Princess Máxima Center as a clinical/research fellow. Here, in collaboration with Ruben van Boxtel, she adopted naturally occurring somatic mutations as “barcodes”, enabling HSC-tracing in human transplantation recipients. The potential of her work is exemplified by my several grants and awards, including a KWF Young Investigator Award (2017) and a Fellowship Award of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (2019).

In 2020, dr.Belderbos started her own research group on translational hematopoietic stem cell biology.

  • The cellular composition and function of the bone marrow niche after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

    • jun. 2022
    • Flavia, Peci, et al
    • Bone marrow transplantation
  • Measures of Clonal Hematopoiesis

    • jan. 2022
    • Leonid V, Bystrykh, et al
    • Frontiers in medicine
  • Antiviral treatment causes a unique mutational signature in cancers of transplantation recipients

    • okt. 2021
    • Jurrian K, de Kanter, et al
    • Cell stem cell
  • KIR3DS1 directs NK cell-mediated protection against human adenovirus infections

    • sep. 2021
    • Johannes M, Jung, et al
    • Science immunology
  • Mutation signatures of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia and normal blood progenitors associated with differential patient outcomes

    • sep. 2021
    • Arianne M, Brandsma, et al
    • Blood cancer discovery
View all publications