Dr Marijn Peters is postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Carlijn Bouten 'Soft Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology' and at the Regenerative Medicine Center and the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital in Utrecht. In collaboration with pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon Bram van Wijk, she studies valve replacements in children and optimising human donor valves for transplantations. Her main focus areas include dynamic culture of living human valves and viral modification of valve immunogenicity and gene editing.

Marijn Peters was trained in biology and biomedical sciences at the University of Utrecht, where she received her Master degree in 2017. She has obtained her PhD degree on cardiac regeneration and iPS system based in vitro modeling of disease at the University Medical Center Utrecht in 2021. She spend two months in Stanford University at the group of Mark Mercola to investigate mechanisms of iPS-derived cardiomyocyte maturation and disease modeling and regenerative targets. In 2021, she started her first postdoc in the group of Marie-Jose Goumans at Leiden University Medical Center on the targeting of human valves gene expression using lentiviral vectors.