Clemens A. van Blitterswijk (1957, The Hague) is a Dutch scientist in tissue engineering, a field that aims to replace or regenerate diseased or damaged tissues through a combination of material engineering and cell biology. He has contributed to the use of synthetic biomaterials to heal bone injuries, especially to an approach termed osteoinduction that aims at designing biomaterials that trigger the surrounding cells to form new bone tissue in vivo. One example of this contribution to osteoinduction is a paper published in collaboration with Joost de Bruijn and Huipin Yuan. In collaboration with Jan de Boer and others, Blitterswijk has contributed to applying high-throughput screening to study cell-biomaterial interactions on engineered microtextures, an approach termed materiomics.