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Radboud Institute for Health Sciences Organization Research groups

Overview of research groups connected to RIHS. You can filter the list with regards to research theme and research department.

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Bacteriology

Heiman Wertheim's research group is primarily focused on the diagnostics of bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance.

Biostatistics

Joanna in 't Hout's research group aims to improve the quality of statistical methods that are used by researchers.

Cancer Epidemiology

Bart Kiemeney's research group learns as much as possible about cancer with the aim of reducing the burden of this disease. The emphasis lies on the detection of urological tumours and their genetic causes.

Cancer Screening and Follow-Up

Mireille Broeders's research subgroup looks at whether there’s value to be gained in targeting the screening or follow-up policy to a person’s level of risk, by collecting information on risk factors from screening participants and patients.

Cardiovascular physiology and exercise

Dick Thijssen's research group focuses on the field of cardiovascular physiology and physical (in)activity. His work strongly focuses on understanding the impact of exercise training and physical activity on reducing the risk of developing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Cerebral perfusion in neurosurgery

Jurgen Fütterer and Mark ter Laan's group explores the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of cerebral perfusion imaging in neurosurgery. We compare several techniques, and develop new applications for cerebral perfusion imaging in the Hybrid-OR.

Communication in healthcare

Sandra van Dulmen's research group studies process and outcome of everyday clinical interactions and design and test (eHealth) interventions.

Educational research in primary care

Nynke Scherpbier's research group initiates and evaluates educational innovations to promote effective medical education in undergraduate curricula and in postgraduate training and continuous professional development in primary care.

Elderly care medicine

Raymond Koopmans' research group focusses on research on people with dementia or neurological disorders.

Evidence Based Surgery

Maroeska Rovers's research subgroup investigates which surgical techniques are being used and whether or not they are necessary.

Exercise physiology

Thijs Eijsvogels’ research group studies the acute and long-term effects of exercise on health. Current projects involve cardiac imaging following lifelong exercise training, optimizing cardiac rehab, assessing thermoregulatory responses in elite athletes and development of cooling strategies.

Gender in primary and transmural care

Sabine Oertelt-Prigione's research group has two goals regarding gender in primary and transmural care.

Global HTA

Rob Baltussen's research subgroup supports countries around the world to set priorities in healthcare.

Health disparities and person centred, integrated primary healthcare

Maria van den Muijsenbergh's research group focuses on researching and teaching on how best to provide personcentred integrated primary care to disadvantaged groups.

Health Technology Assessment

Gert Jan van der Wilt's research group conducts research into the effectiveness, safety, efficiency and social acceptability of medical technology.

HTA Business

Maroeska Rovers's research subgroup HTA Business aims to guide new medical technology innovations by facilitating partnerships between the scientific community, medical technology business partners and policy makers.

Human papillomaviruses (HPV)

Willem Melchers' research aims to improve the nationwide cervical cancer screening, with the possibility of using self sampling. Important herein is research on the use of new triage methods for hrHPV positive women, by using HPV genotyping or molecular biomarkers.

Impuls

Judith Wolf's group develops, bundles and disseminates scientific, professional and experiential knowledge about in- and exclusion processes of vulnerable people, participation, informal support structures and social care and thus contributes to the professionalization and improvement of care.

Intellectual disability & health

Geraline Leusink's research group has the mission to improve the health and healthcare for people with ID by integrating research, education and patient care.

Luminous in refractory critical Limb ischemia

Michiel Warlé's research group is developing new multidisciplinary approaches to enhance recovery after surgery. We are also developing new imaging techniques for better risk-stratification and treatment in patients with peripheral arterial disease.

Minimal invasive treatment option for skeletal metastases

Ingrid van der Geest's research group focuses on the external loads applied to the musculoskeletal system, and how these loads influence the reconstructions.

MRI-guided RFA therapy of liver and pancreatic tumors

Our research groups aims to assess the feasibility of real-time MRI temperature monitoring and ablation zone assessment during RFA of liver and pancreatic tumors.

MRI-guided Transurethral UltraSound Ablation

Jurgen Fütterer's research group performs MRI-guided Transurethral UltraSound Ablation (TULSA) in the prostate.

Mycobacterio­logy

Jakko van Ingen's research group aims to improve the outcomes of antibiotic treatment of NTM disease.

Navigation bone tumor

Ingrid van der Geest's research group uses the cone-beam CT scanner to acquire intraoperative 3D scans of difficult orthopedic oncological cases, and operate under navigation guidance.

OPTIMIST study

OPtical Imaging for lymph node metastatic guidance in Minimally InvaSive esophagecTomy (OPTIMIST study)

Pharmaco­genomics

Marieke Coenen's research group entails population-based gene-finding studies to identify genes predicting treatment outcome.

Pharmacology of antiviral drugs (HIV and HCV)

David Burger's group investigates the pharmacology of antiviral drugs for the treatment of HIV and hepatitis C in special patient population such as pregnant women, children and hepatically impaired patients. We also study drug-drug interactions and the impact on exposure of new drug-formulations.

PRECIES study

Feasibility of preoperative staging with USPIO MRI in patients with resectable esophageal carcinoma (PRECIES study).

Preventive and curative dentistry

Marie-Charlotte Huysmans' research group aimes at contributing to quality and innovation of personalized dental care. Themes include secondary caries and survival of restorations; risk factors affecting treatment; management of tooth wear; and dental health in patients with systemic diseases.

Public health

Koos van der Velden’s research group focuses on several themes: infectious disease, integral health policy & health promotion, work & health, crisis containment and global health.

Quality and safety of oral healthcare

Stefan Listl's research group seeks to increase the value for money in health and dental care by gaining knowledge and improving the implementation of evidence-informed strategies in health policy and daily dental practice.

Radboud applied pharmacome­trics

Rob ter Heine's and Elin Svensson's research group develops and applies mathematical models describing clinical pharmacology processes to interpret clinical trial data, perform clinical trial simulations, support drug development decisions, and optimize therapy in the clinic.

Reproductive Epidemiology

Nel Roeleveld's research group investigates all aspects of human reproduction. The primary question underlying our research is: how can we prevent something from going wrong before, during or after pregnancy?

Research in primary care

Pim Assendelft's research group aims to improve healthcare, from a primary care and transmural perspective.

Risk Assessment and Molecular Epidemiology

Paul Scheepers's research subgroup investigates how we can stay healthy and which environmental factors affect our health.

SYstematic Review Centre for Laboratory animal Experimentation (SYRCLE)

Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga's research subgroup aims to increase the value and reduce the waste of research in animal studies.

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