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As of 2023, the ministry of OCW has increased its annual budget to enhance research and education in the medical sciences. Radboudumc utilizes this "sector plan" to strengthen and deepen three of its own strategic themes (each of which ties in nicely with a main theme of the sector plan):
- prevention
- data-driven & AI
- disease mechanisms & new therapies
About
With the sector plan, implemented in 2023, the Ministry of OCW (Education, Culture and Science) wants to make a structural contribution to improving the cohesion and cooperation between education and research, and making working as a researcher more attractive by using more permanent contracts. In addition, the sector plans contribute to making joint, sharp choices about division of tasks and profiling between and among universities.
Radboudumc fully supports these objectives and has seized this opportunity to strengthen and deepen three important existing strategic themes within Radboudumc, using our share of about 5 million euros a year for six years. These are the strategic themes:
- prevention
- data-driven & AI
- disease mechanisms & new therapies
These themes fit very nicely with the thematic focus of the sector plan, namely: "prevention", "data-driven innovation" and "the path from foundation to application".
We hope this will not only give a boost to the research within Radboudumc, but also strengthen the unique position of university medical centers: in no other place is the interaction between fundamental research and the treatment of (complex) patients so clearly present, and the potential for impact on both patients and healthy people so great.
Additional information about the sector plan can be found on the NFU website (Dutch).
Initiatives arising from our sector plan approach
Therapy Accelerator for Rare Diseases
This team is formed around the sector plan theme "From foundation to application" and our strategic theme "Disease mechanisms & new therapies". It aims to increase access to novel therapies for our patients.
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