Research

Research at Radboud university medical center

Researchers of the Radboud university medical center (Radboudumc, in short) focus on today’s scientific health challenges as well as keeping an eye on emerging diseases of the future.

Research themes

Our scientists perform cross-disciplinary research across 18 clinically relevant research themes.

Research institutes

Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour

As part of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour – the Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience is devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of human cognition and behavior in health and disease. read more

Radboud Institute for Health Sciences

Ideally, every procedure in clinical practice and public health should take place based on proof, instead of intuition or 'experience'. Our aim is to innovate and personalize healthcare and public health. read more

Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

Our main aim is to achieve a greater understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease. By integrating fundamental and clinical research, we obtain multifaceted knowledge of (patho)physiological processes. read more

Open Science and open access

Open science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research data, lab notes and other research processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods. Radboudumc agrees with international developments concerning open science. See the National Plan Open Science. Open Access is an important part of Open Science. Open Access of publications provides direct, free and online access to scientific publications without copyright restrictions of publishers. Open Access significantly increases the visibility of a publication. Current Radboudumc guidelines regarding Open Access publishing are in order of priority:

In case you have funding for article processing charges (APC), and there is a good open access candidate journal for your paper, submit your paper to this open access journal
In other cases, and for the time being, submit your paper to a classical journal that waives the APC for corresponding authors from Dutch universities (see www.openaccess.nl)
If there is no good candidate journal that waives the APC, search for a good alternative open access journal (and pay the APC)
If there is no good alternative open access journal, as a last option, choose a classical journal and pay APC to make your paper open access.

For future publications, make sure you include costs for APC in the budget of your grant proposals.
The UBN provides advice about open access.

Researchers at Radboudumc

Overview of researchers working at Radboudumc.

Research groups at Radboudumc

Overview of research groups within Radboudumc.

Research Agenda 2025 for a significant impact on healthcare

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Societal impact of Radboudumc's research

At Radboudumc, we want to do science that has impact: impact on individuals and on society as a whole.

TopFit Impact Programme concepts for a Healthy Life

Under the name TopFit Impact Programme, Radboudumc, Radboud University, the University of Twente and Wageningen University & Research, join together in an impact programme aimed at preventing and reducing disease and the burden of disease. read more

Career

With nearly 10,000 employees and 3,000 students, Radboudumc combines patient care, research, and scientific training. Our mission is to have a significant impact on healthcare. Also want to make a difference? Find out all about working at Radboudumc. read more

Scientific training at Radboudumc

Want your research to have a significant impact on healthcare? Radboudumc is a great place to enhance your research skills. read more

Technology centers

The Radboudumc technology centers are an access point for technological expertise, high-end equipment and biobanks. We can support a wealth of research questions.

Centers of clinical expertise

Our centers of expertise share specialized knowledge and expertise is with parties outside the organization. we have two kinds of centers of expertise: for rare diseases and for non-rare diseases.

Valorization

The activities of the Department of Valorization includes the search for (inter)national research funding, support during grant application procedures, evaluation, patenting and commercialization of new technologies. We negotiate contracts and provide support in the creation of spin-off companies.