Assistant Professor (Internal Medicine, Kidney Transplantation & Nephrology), Erasmus University Medical Center
Frederike Ambagtsheer, PhD, is a criminologist and organ trafficking researcher based at Erasmus MC Transplant Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
She has a MSc in Criminology, a LL.M. in Public International Law and obtained her PhD (cum laude) on the Organ Trade in 2017. She initiated/coordinated the HOTT Project (2012-2016) and is the recipient of a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project, 'Organs as a Gateway to Europe: studying kidney sales among migrants entering the EU' (2021-2025).
Jun 28, 2023 00:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they...
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