Vascular and regenerative medicine
Mainly due to the epidemic occurrence of atherosclerosis and diabetes, a rapidly growing number of people have severe organ damage, especially heart and kidney failure. This is an increasing burden on health care systems all over the world, and the waiting lists for organ transplants are growing. Regenerative medicine holds the promise of alleviating these problems.
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Almost 19 million euro for development and study of organs-on-chips
It sounds futuristic, but it is possible: the creation of miniature organs of patients in order to study them and see how diseases develop and can be ...
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Quantum optics for asylum seekers
The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.