Research groups - Radboudumc

Research Departments Physiology Research groups

Discover some of our research that is related to physiology.

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.

Exercise oncology

Laurien Buffart’s research group focuses on the role of exercise in patients with cancer. The multidisciplinary work focuses on the effects and underlying mechanisms of exercise on quality of life and clinical outcome.

Exercise physiology

Thijs Eijsvogels’s 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.

Magnesium in health and disease

Jeroen de Baaij's research group examines the role of magnesium in health and disease. Our mission is to decipher the pathophysiological mechanisms of magnesoium-wasting tubulopathies by development of novel disease models and advanced methods to measure magnesium transport.

Molecular physiology

Joost Hoenderop’s group focuses on understanding tubulopathies. The focus is on the tubular transport of calcium, magnesium and sodium by the kidney tubule and the changes therein.

Renal electrolyte handling

René Bindels' research group studies the regulation of ion transport processes in kidney and small intestine in health and disease. Current projects involve the molecular mechanisms underlying rare tubulopathies and the regulation of the newly identified calcium, magnesium and sodium transporters.