Rik Lories

KU Leuven

Rik Lories (MD PhD) is Full Professor at KU Leuven. He is the Director of Internal Medicine and Chair of the Division of Rheumatology at the University Hospitals Leuven. He is also the Chair of the Department of Development and Regeneration and director of the Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center that includes the Laboratory for Tissue Homeostasis and Disease that he is leading together with Prof. Silvia Monteagudo. His research focuses on endogenous tissue responses in the joint with specific attention towards translational questions in osteoarthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, and psoriatic arthritis. He (co-)authored > 240 publications, including original research reports or reviews in Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, PNAS, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases and Arthritis and Rheumatology.