About
The ministry of OCW invests 40 million euros annually to enhance research and education in the sector of medical sciences. Radboudumc has seized this opportunity to strengthen and deepen three of its strategic themes: prevention, data-driven & AI, and disease mechanisms & new therapies.
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With the sector plans, 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. These are the themes of 1) prevention, 2) data-driven & AI, and 3) disease mechanisms & new therapies, which fit very nicely with the thematic focus of the sector plan, namely 1) prevention, 2) data-driven innovation and 3) 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.
Our goal
What is our goal?
We aim to accelerate in three of our strategic themes:
- Prevention (lifestyle data and interventions)
- Data-driven (artificial intelligence, e-health and medical technology)
- Disease mechanisms & new therapies (therapy development for rare diseases)
Achieving our goal
We are looking for about 40 people with the drive to create impact and pave the way for accelerating healthcare. This is your chance to be part of this movement and help shape the future of our research and education, creating impact on the lives of many.
Positions and availability
Vacancies for these positions can be found at the bottom of the sector plan page.
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- Assistant professor | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed for application
- Senior researcher | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed for application
- Scientific programmer | 0.5 FTE | Status: closed for application
- Data steward | 0.5 FTE | Status: closed for application
- Associate professor | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed for application
- Senior project manager | 1.0 FTE | position filled
- Senior researcher | 1.0 FTE | Status: position filled
- Data steward | 0.5 FTE | Status: opening soon
- Community manager | 0.8 FTE | Status: position filled
- Senior researcher | 0.8 FTE| Status: position filled
- Logistics coordinator | 0.9 FTE | Status: position filled
- Several part-time staff scientists / community-based lecturers | 0.2 - 0.4 FTE |Status: position filled
- Lifestyle coach | 2 x 0.7 FTE | Status: position filled
- Coordinator | 0.6 FTE | Status: opening soon
Last updated: 19 September 2023
Vacancies for these positions can be found at the bottom of the sector plan page if available.
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- Scientific programmer | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- Senior researcher | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- Junior clinical innovator | 0.4 - 0.6 FTE | Status: position filled
- Project coordinator | 1 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- Senior clinical innovator | 0.4 - 0.6 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- Researcher in Talent Track | 1.0 FTE | Status: opening soon
- Data steward | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Researcher in Talent Track | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- Senior researcher | 1.0 FTE | Status: openening soon
- Coordinator | 0.9 FTE | Status: closed; position filled
- ICT developer | 1.0 FTE | Status: opening soon
- Lab manager | 2 x 1.0 FTE | Status: position filled
- Coordinator 'werkterrein' Radboud Health Academy (RHA) | ~0.6 FTE | Status: opening soon (only in Dutch)
Last updated: 19 September 2023
Vacancies for these positions can be found at the bottom of the sector plan page if available.
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- Associate professor | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Senior Researcher | 0.9 FTE | Status: position filled
- Senior Research Technician | 0.8 FTE | Status: position filled
- Senior Research Technician | 0.8 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Senior Researcher | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Project developer | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Hospital Pharmacist | 2 x 0.4 FTE | Status: position filled
- Associate professor | 1.0 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Project leader | 0.9 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Research coordinator | 1.0 FTE | Status: position filled
- Coordinator | 0.6 FTE | Status: position filled
- Assistant professor | 0.8 FTE | Status: position filled
- Assistant professor | 0.8 FTE | Status: closed; selection in progress
- Community manager | 0.5 FTE | Status: position filled
Last updated: 21 September 2023
Vacancies for these positions can be found at the bottom of the sector plan page if available.
Vacancies
Vacancies can be found below.
Background information and vacancies per theme
Prevention background information
Join us to work on an evidence base for personalized prevention, based on the needs of people.
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Lifestyle data and interventions
Join us to work on an evidence base for personalized prevention. We believe that successful prevention of physical and mental diseases and disorders needs to be based on the needs of people, with attention to socioeconomic health differences. Help us to bring together data from different sources, both inside and outside the Radboudumc to gain better insights into the mechanisms of action and build targeted interventions that match the needs and capabilities of individuals.
Below you can read more on background information, our ambitions and our positions. You can also go directly to the overview of available vacancies for this theme (note: vacancies for this theme are available in Dutch only).
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Prevention is one of Radboudumc's 6 strategic themes. We focus much of our research and education on prevention and want to build even further towards a solid prevention infrastructure both within the Radboudumc, and together with partners in our environment (campus, municipality, region).
Education and research on prevention of physical and mental diseases and disorders, and related insights into the mechanisms of action, are central to the theme of prevention. In addition, promoting healthy lifestyles and resilience are important topics with attention to the needs of citizens/patients, and attention to socioeconomic health disparities.
With the Prevention Sector Plan, we want to boost research and education on lifestyle and physical and mental health, in which researchers, students, teachers and health professionals at various places within the Radboudumc work together to optimally organize the prevention axis 'living environment - primary care - hospital' for the citizen/patient and give it evidence-based content. This can be built on top of a broad palette of inspiring, innovative initiatives and projects, as well as various meaningful collaborations.
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With the positions financed as part of the Sectorplan, Radboudumc wants to collect data in the region to work on personalized prevention. Interventions must match the needs and capabilities of target groups and individuals, and therefore information from different sources is essential. To this end, field labs 'Lifestyle, living environment & health' and a platform 'Data for health in the region' are being developed, in which data from different sources come together: citizens (citizen science together with MUMC+ and Vierdaagseonderzoek), healthcare data, public sector, cohorts (like NES, Healthy Brain) and national routine data (CBS, RIVM, GGD). These sources are still rarely brought together (the prevention landscape consists of silos) and more knowledge is needed about the possibilities, barriers and importance of combining data.
Within the Radboudumc we are setting up a Prevention Hub, which will bring together our research (and related education) on lifestyle and behavior for physical and mental health. Among other things, we are focusing on research into tertiary (indicated and disease-related) prevention, such as prehabilitation (interventions prior to treatment), rehabilitation (recovery after treatment) and sustainable lifestyle change in transmural chains of care.
For medical, dental and biomedical science students, education on implementing health interventions in different settings in the region is developed and implemented. In addition, Radboudumc will collaborate with the paramedics’ and nurses' training programs of HAN University of Applied Sciences. Students will guide patients across the boundaries of the echelons (1st, 2nd, 3rd line) in health promotion. Here the link with the field labs will be made.
An interdisciplinary graduate program in "Lifestyle Medicine" will be initiated to train young scientists and future health care professionals in this field who can take this approach further in the future. Among other things, expertise from the only addiction medicine training program in the Netherlands is used for these educational initiatives. Achieving a healthy living environment (sustainability) requires investment in knowledge and education, and calls for intensified cooperation with other faculties of Radboud University and HAN University of Applied Sciences.
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Data for health: Improving the data infrastructure to better target prevention
- Research group on data and population health management. By combining data from different data sources, efforts can be made to reduce socioeconomic health disparities through health interventions aimed at behavior change. Data sources relevant to health and lifestyle come together in a platform "Data for health” in the region.
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- 1 UD
- 1 senior researcher
- 1 scientific programmer (0.5 FTE)
- 1 data steward (0.5 FTE)
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Build towards Radboudumc-wide Prevention Hub
- Development of innovative projects on population health management
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- 1 UHD (1 FTE)
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- A Radboudumc-wide Prevention Hub, which will bring together our research (and related education) on lifestyle and behavior for physical and mental health. The focus will be on 1) tertiary (indicated and disease-related) prevention, such as prehabilitation (interventions prior to treatment), 2) rehabilitation (recovery after treatment), and 3) sustainable lifestyle change in transmural chains of care.
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- 1 senior project manager
- 1 seniour researcher (1 FTE)
- 1 data steward (0.5 FTE)
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Strengthening of existing internal and external connections and collaborations
- The formation of an active interdisciplinary community of HBO (university of applied sciences), umc and other faculties of the university. From thereon connection to (inter)national consortia on health and prevention research
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- 1 community manager (0.8 FTE)
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- Structural support for academic workplace public health AMPHI to secure its role in linking policy, research, and public health practice.
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- 1 senior researcher (0.8 FTE)
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Building capacity to connect professionals working in prevention related research and education
- Fieldlabs in neighbourhoods (mainly with socioeconomic health disparities. These work along a long-term neighborhood/municipality research and innovation agenda. In the fieldlabs, medical, dental and biomedical science students collaborate with students from other faculties and HBO. Landing site intervention research projects with high complexity.
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- 1 logistics coordinator (0.9 FTE)
- several part-time staff scientists / community-based lecturers
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- Lifestyle advisory desk for chronic patients with lifestyle problems. Medical, dental and biomedical science students will guide patients towards healthy habits.
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- 2 lifestyle coaches
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- Interdisciplinary master 'Lifestyle and behavior' with access from biomedical sciences, medicine, psychology, and education science.
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- 1 coordinator
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- Research group on data and population health management. By combining data from different data sources, efforts can be made to reduce socioeconomic health disparities through health interventions aimed at behavior change. Data sources relevant to health and lifestyle come together in a platform "Data for health” in the region.
Data-driven innovation background information
Join us in the development of new medical technologies and in training the next generation of clinical innovators.
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Artificial intelligence, e-health and medical technology
Discover the future of healthcare at Radboudumc, where AI-driven diagnostics and prognostics, and continuous monitoring are paving the way towards improved efficiency, safety, and patient care. With a focus on data-driven health, we're leading the charge in developing new medical technologies and training the next generation of clinical innovators. Join us in building a self-learning healthcare system and improving the lives of patients around the world.
Below you can read more on background information, our ambitions and our positions. You can also go directly to the overview of available vacancies for this theme.
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Radboudumc is leading the way in implementing AI-driven diagnostics, digital surgery, and continuous monitoring to address healthcare staff shortages and improve efficiency and safety. Our approach is to involve the integration of data from various sources to better understand which interventions are most effective and how to prevent certain conditions and complications.
In the focus area "data-driven health: AI, e-health and medical technology," we are committed to developing and implementing new technology in medical practice. The sector plan allows Radboudumc, together with regional, national and international collaboration partners, to continue building a self-learning healthcare system where data about our patients and treatment outcomes are used to improve the treatment of future patients and develop new prevention strategies.
Radboudumc also plans to invest in a new Master's program in Medical Data Science to train healthcare professionals in clinical innovation skills and attract talent early on. With a focus on rare diseases, Radboudumc aims to improve diagnostics and treatment through natural history studies and innovative clinical trial designs.
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Radboudumc sees an important role for implementation of AI-driven diagnostics, digital surgery and continuous monitoring (in the hospital and at home) in addressing healthcare staff shortage and improving efficiency and safety. Data from various sources must be integrated to better understand which interventions are most (cost) effective and how certain conditions and complications can be prevented.
AI offers opportunities for delivering value-driven and appropriate care that is well aligned with citizens' needs and values without increasing costs, if indeed properly deployed. In the field of imaging in radio diagnostics and pathology, much has been achieved at Radboudumc by training AI algorithms on available images. Implementation of these AI systems in routine diagnostics is a process that needs to be supported by innovation and implementation experts. The next step will be to train AI algorithms on multimodal clinical data including -omics data, and unstructured text, audio and video recordings. Radboudumc also sees opportunities for successful innovations in deploying AI for the analysis of (semi)real-time data collected by sensors and devices (for example, in intensive care or, using wearables in nursing wards and in one's own living environment). It is also Radboudumc's ambition to realize pioneering research into AI applications at the interface of imaging and minimally invasive treatments.
Radboudumc realizes that a transition in healthcare is needed to actually implement and realize the potential of the above innovation. This means that patients, citizens, healthcare providers and supporters in clinical practice must be included in the process in a timely manner. In order to facilitate the further rollout and the exploitation of all the potential of AI-based diagnostics, digital surgery, continuous monitoring and E-Health, Radboud university medical center wants to invest in:
- Real-time data management and analytics;
- Innovative analytics of multi-modal data;
- Ongoing clinical validation of AI models in development sites and living labs;
- Training of the next generation of biomedical and computer scientists to successfully develop and implement data-driven health(care) applications;
- Network care and scaling up with relevant partners in the chain of care.
The establishment of a structural multi-source clinical data stream and the learning process to use it to make care more efficient, safe and patient-friendly requires physician scientists and other healthcare professionals with clinical innovator skills who are empowered to realize development, actual implementation, scientific research and training around data-driven care. Furthermore, expert data stewards, data analysts and software engineers are needed, but these are also highly sought after in other sectors, making attracting and retaining expertise an additional challenge and benefiting from a strongly designed talent policy and career prospects. Radboudumc wants to invest (in collaboration with Radboud University and the University of Twente) in setting up a new Master's program in Medical Data Science to engage talents at an early stage.
Radboudumc is strong in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with rare diseases, playing a pioneering role in a number of European Reference Networks and building registries with pulmonary data on patients with rare diseases. A data-driven approach here offers opportunities for improving diagnostics and treatment, but also poses an additional challenge because each treatment center only treats limited numbers of patients. The data are thus scattered throughout Europe, which requires a coordinated approach as in the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases, its national mirror group and the nationally recognized centers of expertise for rare diseases. Within Radboudumc there is much attention to 'natural history studies' with well-characterized patient cohorts and FAIR patient registries to form a baseline for trials, use of computational and statistical models to design, test and evaluate new and therapies in innovative in vitro models (organ-on-a-chip, organoids), development of innovative clinical trial designs.
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The Sectorplan provides funding for 15 structural positions to support these ambitions. Details about the current vacancies for these positions can be found here. Positions that are not yet on the vacancy list will become available later.
1. Scientific programmer
To contribute to the development, expansion, automation and implementation of innovative AI models to make healthcare more efficient, effective and person-centered.
2. Staff scientist (senior researcher)
To support scientists and clinicians on AI models that make integrated use of multimodal data.
3. Junior clinical innovator
Physician in training to become a medical specialist. Contributes very concretely to the design and establishment of 1 or more clinical living lab(s) that strives to maximize collaboration between healthcare professionals and data managers.
4. Project coordinator
In developing data-driven digital care.
5. Senior clinical innovator
Academic Medical Specialist. Development of data driven digital care with a focus on development and validation of digital data driven care, training of healthcare professionals in this new care and rollout within and outside Radboudumc and development of network care.
6. Researcher in Talent Track
To develop AI-based methods for structuring, analyzing, integrating and interpreting real-world data, and exploiting these methods in diagnosis and prognosis.
7. Data steward
To structure, analyze, integrate and interprete unstructured data and to select or develop AI tools that facilitate this.
8. Researcher in Talent Track
In modelling and application of multimodal data for precision medicine and personalised health.
9. Staff scientist (senior researcher)
To work on the management and analysis of multimodal data
10. Coordinator ERN registries for patients with rare diseases
To ensure, in collaboration with Information Management department, that it is possible to automatically compile research cohorts from source systems
11. ICT developer FAIR data infrastructure
To ensure, in collaboration with ICT developers and data stewards, that existing and future dataset/cohorts are FAIR available and patient registrations are filled automatically from source systems such as EPIC and LIMS.
Disease mechanisms and new therapies background information
Join us and accelerate the development of rare disease therapies.
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Therapy development for rare diseases
Increase your impact on healthcare and accelerate the development of rare disease therapies by filling the gap between preclinical and clinical science. You can be part of an enthusiastic team with the ambition to develop Radboudumc as a center for rare diseases and innovative drug therapies.
Below you can read more on background information, our ambitions and our positions. You can also go directly to the overview of available vacancies for this theme.
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Radboudumc has a strong track record in curiosity-driven research with translational impact. Academic patient care is integrated with innovative research and education with a person-centered focus. A prototypic example of personalized medicine within the care domain involves the strong development and positioning of Radboudumc Centers of Expertise for rare diseases. The highly specialized and complex care of rare disease patients is an essential and intrinsic part of our university medical center given our central position in society and the care landscape. Given the fact that ~6% of the population is suffering from a rare disease, the vast majority of which lacks causative treatment options, the development and implementation of novel therapies is an important academic responsibility as well. Innovations in genomic technologies have drastically increased the number of diagnosed patients with rare genetic diseases, allowing the rational design of novel treatments based on the underlying molecular mechanisms. Moreover, improved patient stratification offers novel possibilities for targeted and individualized treatments, for example by use of cell-based therapies in rare hemato-oncological diseases.
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Radboudumc will commit to developing targeted and personalized therapies for rare diseases with a focus on disease groups in our expertise centers. The expertise in these centers ranges from rare neurological, neurometabolic and kidney disorders to rare infectious diseases and cancer. Based on the widespread knowledge in our center on disease mechanisms, we focus on gene- and cell-based therapies and drug repurposing.
To this end, Radboudumc will:
- Invest in and further develop the necessary infrastructure, including
- GMP facilities such as clean rooms
- Disease models (towards human research models, organoids)
- Clinical trial facilities including outcome measures and support
- Develop methods to investigate the implementation of person-centered therapies. These include statistics in small groups or n=1 trials as well as the selection of appropriate therapeutic approaches.
- Promote later stage development (TRLs 5-7) of drug candidates by strengthening valorization and establishing Public Private Partnership ecosystems, combined with an in-depth knowledge network on academic drug development. This also involves value-based decision making via therapy development paths.
- Build capacity to train professionals who can connect the worlds of research, drug development and valorization. A new specialization in Therapy Development within the Master of Biomedical Sciences will be developed. Furthermore, entrepreneurship and drug development will be prioritized in educational programs for researchers and professionals.
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The Sectorplan provides funding for 13 structural positions to support these ambitions. Details about the current vacancies for these positions can be found here. Positions that are not yet on the vacancy list will become available within one month. The positions are centered around four main activities:
1. Improving preclinical infrastructure to accelerate therapy development for rare diseases
- Development and standardization of therapy testing in human organ-on-chip models
- Development of RNA and genetic therapies beyond the preclinical stage
- Development of Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) including cell-based therapies
- Team:
- 1 associate professor
- 1 assistant professor education
- 2 staff scientists (assistant professor level)
- 2 research technicians
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2. Improving clinical infrastructure to accelerate therapy development for rare diseases
- Design of “Therapy development pathways” for drug-repurposing, gene/RNA-based and cell-based therapies and facilitating their access
- Development of methods to investigate the effects and implementation of person-centered therapies, so-called n=1 trials
- Support to start-up and implementation of investigator-initiated treatment strategies and trials for rare disorders
- Team:
- 1 associate professor
- 1 assistant professor education
- 1 project manager
- 2 part time hospital pharmacists/researchers
- 1 trial coordinator/research nurse
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3. Developing a knowledge network on academic drug development for rare diseases
- Development of a knowledge network both internally in the Radboudumc and by realizing a Public Private Partnership ecosystem with external partners. This will strengthen the development of late stage TRLs (5-7)
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- 1 project developer public private partnerships
- 1 community manager
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4. Building capacity to train professionals who can connect research, drug development and valorization
- Establishment of a new track on Therapy Development within the Master of Biomedical Sciences
- Integration of entrepreneurship and knowledge on drug development in the educational programs for researchers and other professionals
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- 2 assistant professors education (also linked to teams 1 and 2)
- 1 coordinator of the track on therapy development in the Master program
The researchers indicated above will also be involved in teaching in these programs
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