Laan op Zuid 88
NL-3071 AA Rotterdam
Telephone +31 10 297 4444
Fax +31 10 297 4440 / +31 10 485 0159
E-mail vanderwees@niios.com
www.niios.com
Medical Director: Gerrit Melles MD PhD
Director of Innovation: Viridiana Kocaba, MD, PhD, MScE, FEBO
Ophthalmic surgeons: Viridiana Kocaba, Gerrit Melles, corneal fellows Achraf Laouani, MD, FEBO, Mohamed Ghaly, MD, FEBO
Head of tissue bank / Correspondent / Responsible Person: Jacqueline van der Wees, PhD
Operational Manager: Mehtap Dedeci BSc, Monique Noppen
Staff: Hanneke van Bergen BA (general manager of NIIOS), Paulina Bylewska, Simone Claessens B.Eng, Esther Groeneveld-van Beek MSc, Louise de Herdt BSc, Petra van Leeuwen BSc, Jessica Lie PhD, Julia Nijenhuis MSc, Anita Sajet BAS
Research staff: Silke Oellerich PhD (Head of R&D), Vincent Bourgonje PhD, Korine van Dijk PhD, Lisanne Ham PhD, Alina Miron MSc, Lydia van der Star, Indre Vasiliauskaite MSc
Date established: 2004
AER distributes amniotic membrane tissue since 1997, and both full-thickness and several types of lamellar corneal transplants since 2004