The LUMC collaborates with partners around the world to share knowledge and improve healthcare. But equal collaboration is not something that happens automatically. Power and funding are often concentrated in the West, while local partners possess indispensable knowledge. How do you make sure one side doesn’t dominate the other? Tienke Vermeiden and Charlotte Hoffman know from experience what it takes to find that balance.
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A driving force
LUMC strongly underpins the idea that ‘Science is the driving force behind innovative healthcare’. Outcomes of top level fundamental, translational and clinical research by LUMC researchers form a strong basis for innovative and qualitative healthcare on a national, European and international level.
A real game changer was the development of the Dutch national research agenda (NWA) in 2015. The agenda reveals the complexity of the issues challenging Dutch society today. These issues are clustered in so called routes. LUMC is involved in many of these routes and contributes this way to solving important societal challenges.