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Goals

  • To apply the most recent therapy modalities and optimize medication use, including dose reduction strategies, to enhance patient treatment.
  • To develop and implement personalized monitoring systems, including home-based options, to provide tailored patient care.
  • To improve early diagnosis and disease classification by combining current diagnostic criteria with precise clinimetrics, imaging techniques, and biomarker measurements.
  • To investigate the impact of sex differences, age, pregnancy, and family planning on treatment response to refine personalized care.
  • To support curiosity-driven preclinical research to unravel disease mechanisms, develop human and disease models, and identify novel drug targets through drug screening and repurposing strategies.
  • To promote collaboration between laboratories and clinical departments to bridge experimental and clinical disciplines for better patient outcomes.
  • To contribute to preventing complex disease progression and reducing healthcare costs through optimized, interdisciplinary care.


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Research Research programs Chronic inflammatory diseases:

Our mission

We aim to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life for patients with chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) by fostering interdisciplinary, cross-disease collaboration and translational research that integrates clinical and experimental approaches to deliver personalized and effective care.

Goals

See some of the most important goals for this research program.

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Experimental reumatology

Peter van der Kraan's research group works on the discovery and validation of new disease targets, elucidating the role of cellular communication, the immune system and pain mechanisms to develop innovative diagnosing and endotyping methods and effective treatments.

Infection and immunity

Marien de Jonge's research group conducts research on mucosal immunity in the respiratory tract and aims to unravel host-pathogen interactions to improve diagnosis and protection against airway infections.

Inflammatory skin diseases

Elke de Jong's research group aims at improving care, treatment, translational research, implementation and eduction regarding patients with inflammatory skin diseases.

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Ellen van den Bogaard

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Spokesperson

Elke de Jong

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