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Research Research programs The impacts of (pre)diabetes

Our mission

We aim to reduce the negative impacts of (pre)diabetes on people's lives.

Goals

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

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Goals

  • To determine the value of technology in people with (pre)diabetes ("the human-tech interaction"). 
  • To elucidate the role of innate immunity in the pathophysiology of long-term micro and macrovascular complications and explore the benefit of anti-inflammatory interventions. 
  • To disentangle te relationship of obesity with the immune system, predisposing to the development of (pre) diabetes and study the effect of (non)-pharmacologically-induced weight loss. 


Research groups contributing to this research program

Anatomy

Amanda Kiliaan's research group studies (cerebro)vascular risk factors for AD (hypertension, stroke, cSVD, obesity) using innovative neuroimaging and cognitive/motor tests, from mouse models to postmortem human brain and morbid obesity.

Cardiovascular physiology

Dick Thijssen's research group uses innovative ultrasound-based technology to examine the role of hemodynamic forces to improve the understanding of the working mechanisms of the heart and blood vessels.

Vascular medicine

Niels Riksen's research group performs translational research in patients with atherosclerosis or risk factors, and in experimental preclinical models. 

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

prof. dr. Cees Tack

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Spokesperson

dr. ir. Rinke Stienstra

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