Merel Lambregts

Merel Lambregts is an infectious diseases specialist at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Netherlands, with a dedicated clinical and scientific focus on urinary tract infections (UTIs). She is actively involved in both international and national guideline development. She currently serves as a panel member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines on Urological Infections and chairs the Dutch national guideline “Antimicrobial Therapy of Urinary Tract Infections in Adults.” Clinically, she runs a dedicated multidisciplinary UTI outpatient clinic at LUMC, providing specialized care for patients with complicated and recurrent UTIs, while also serving as a platform for translational research and education. Her research portfolio includes multiple investigator-initiated multicenter studies focusing on UTI diagnostics, catheter-associated UTI, biomarkers, and antimicrobial stewardship.