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Research for the Future of Health
The future of health asks for innovation to help understand why some fall ill and others do not. For the development of innovative diagnostics, treatments and sustainable health systems.
The future of health asks for innovation to help understand why some fall ill and others do not. For the development of innovative diagnostics, treatments and sustainable health systems.
Our key areas of research
The UMCG key areas showcase the power of our combined interests. They show the diversity of our research, our innovative power and what we a can achieve through our shared effort.
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Public Health
Together with a large network of partners, we do research e.g. on lifestyle or social environment, to reduce health inequality and promote a sustainable health system.
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Biology of ageing
Ageing to most is simply something that happens to us. True? We need to look deeply into the mechanisms that result in ageing to prevent and combat age-related disease.
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Transplantation
Transplantation is a lifesaving therapy for patients suffering from end stage organ failure. We combine knowledge and care on transplantations to provide a "second life" to patients and organs.
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Innovative cancer treatment
Early detection of tumor cells. Frontier and efficient therapies, addressing critical side effects. Some of our research topics that help push borders for our patients.
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Microbiome
The human microbiome is a vital contributor to human health. To connect the dots between microbiome and disease, we need to be as versatile as the microbiome itself.
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Health data
Health data could be a gamechanger in health research. By studying large data sets from healthy populations or of specific patient groups we can develop new solutions for prevention, diagnostics or treatment.
Our networks and partners
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Lifelines
We collect health data and biosamples from 167,000 participants and make them available to researchers who aim to contribute to the prevention, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
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Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health
A network of researchers and societal partners with one single goal: more healthy years
Facilities
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Medical Imaging Center (MIC)
Medical Imaging Center (MIC) is equipped with state-of-art scanners for preclinical and clinical imaging, and research and development laboratories for positron emission tomography (PET) tracers. Multi-modality imaging facilities from Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.
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Data Science Center in Health (DASH)
Knowledge hub, community, and facilitator in the field of health data science. DASH offers knowledge, community and project development activities to support data-driven innovation in prevention and care.
