Margot de Looff

Margot de Looff is a senior researcher at the professorship Biomolecules & Health and within the Point-of-Care Technology (POCT) research line at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. She focuses on translating promising scientific research into concrete and clinically applicable Point-of-Care Technology.

Her goal is to make innovative diagnostic insights available to practitioners. So that patient care can be improved, care processes can be organised more efficiently, and at the same time, the pressure on the healthcare system can be reduced.

POCT makes it possible to measure, among other things, biological biomarkers that provide insight into a user's health status. Due to new technologies, such as wearables, biological biomarkers can be analysed directly from bodily fluids, for example sweat. This allows monitoring to take place closer to the patient.

Despite extensive fundamental research into promising biomarkers, the step toward clinically applicable POCT solutions often proves challenging. Successful implementation requires intensive multidisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration, which is not always straightforward in practice. As a result, many innovations fail before they reach the clinic.

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By actively contributing to multidisciplinary collaboration, Margot aims to bridge this gap. The close collaboration between the various professorships at Hanze University of Applied Sciences and regional healthcare institutions, knowledge institutions, and companies forms a unique and powerful combination that accelerates innovation within POCT.

In addition, Margot is involved in the Biology and Medical Laboratory Research programme. Here, she is committed to, among other things, the implementation of POCT development in theoretical and practical education. This has led to an interprofessional elective module: The patient fit and prepared for surgery, care and diagnostics at Nij Smellinghe. POCT in prehabilitation is central to this module.

Margot studied Biomedical Sciences at the University of Groningen and obtained her PhD at the University Medical Center Groningen for her research into lung cancer. Her areas of expertise are medical diagnostics, cell biology, oncology, and biomarkers.

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