Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 081 How will our knowledge of genetics play a role in analysing, screening for, and treating diseases?
Genetics influences risk of every disease and response to interventions from birth onwards, can be easily and comprehensively measured, at […]
View the initiativeRoute: Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment
cluster question: 094 How do we improve the quality of health care as much as possible while keeping it affordable?
The Dutch health landscape is increasingly under pressure as a consequence of population ageing, increasing demand, emerging technological innovations and […]
View the initiativeRoute: Towards resilient societies
cluster question: 047 How can we promote social cohesion in a society that is culturally and religiously diverse?
In order to make society resilient for all citizens including migrants, we must ensure that health care is inclusive and […]
View the initiativeRoute: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 095 How can we personalise health care, for example by using biomarkers?
Mental disorders are highly prevalent and create an enormous societal and personal burden. However, current treatments mostly have limited effects. […]
View the initiativeRoute: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 083 How do neurological, psychiatric, and mental disorders arise, and how can we prevent, mitigate, or cure them?
Prevention of depression is one of the top public health challenges of our time, and personalised models allowing for early […]
View the initiativeRoute: Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment
cluster question: 085 Every tumour is different, so how can we come to understand cancer well enough to develop a treatment for each and every type?
Approximately one in every 50 persons is diagnosed with lymphoma during his or her lifetime. For the Netherlands, this means […]
View the initiativeRoute: Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment
cluster question: 081 How will our knowledge of genetics play a role in analysing, screening for, and treating diseases?
Genome wide association studies (GWAS) are successful in identifying genetic variation as risk factors for complex traits and most traits […]
View the initiativeRoute: Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment
cluster question: 082 How does the central nervous system develop and how can we counteract degeneration processes in that system?
Patients with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) become unable to use their muscles because the brain is no longer able to […]
View the initiativeRoute: Health care research, sickness prevention and treatment
cluster question: 104 How do we develop minimally invasive techniques and interventions for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment?
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common, progressive cardiac arrhythmia caused by environmental and genetic factors. It affects millions of people […]
View the initiativeRoute: Child and adolescent development, upbringing and education
cluster question: 059 How can we help children and adolescents grow up safe and healthy?
This NWA-ORC initiative aims to improve equality of opportunity in early childhood by integrating ‘big data’ into the delivery, evaluation, […]
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