# First person – Femke (Fen) van Rhijn-Brouwer

## TL;DR

This paper is an interview with Fen van Rhijn-Brouwer, who studied how bone marrow-derived cell therapies affect blood flow in the legs.

## Contribution

The study provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of cell therapy effects on hind limb perfusion.

## Key findings

- Bone marrow-derived cell therapies improve hind limb perfusion in preclinical models.
- The meta-analysis reveals consistent benefits across multiple studies.
- The findings support further exploration of cell-based treatments for vascular conditions.

## Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Fen van Rhijn-Brouwer is first author on ‘
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of bone marrow-derived cell therapies on hind limb perfusion’, published in DMM. Fen is a PhD candidate in the lab of Marianne Verhaar at the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands, investigating how to use cell-based regenerative medicine strategies to treat vascular inflammation.