About LUMC
Academic Hospital specialized in research, innovation and education, affiliated with University Leiden. LUMC is (co) founder of multiple research platforms and networks (national and international). Mainly related to infectious diseases and clinical trials.
Mission: to connect pioneering medical research with real-world health care challenges.
Main focus areas:
- Population health management via Campus The Hague
- Data driven health
- Academic pharma: discovering and developing new medicinal products
- Infectious-disease research (via InFECT-NL)
- Controlled human infection models (CHIM) for malaria, schistosomiasis, hookworm, rhinovirus.
Collaborations with GHH-partners
Hospitals/umc’s
- Amsterdam UMC, Radboudumc, UMC Utrecht – co-founders InFECT-NL.
- Erasmus MC, TU Delft - research & education programmes via Medical Delta (Sustainable Hospitals & Global Womens health thesis labs) as LDE-partnership (Leiden, Delft, Erasmus)
Industry/research
- Philips: Acceleration programme to advance MRI with AI (AI4MRI)
- TNO: Medical tests ‘outside the body’: multi-organ-model to accelerate drug-innovation
Funders
- ZonMw & Health~Holland: fundingpartners for InFECT-NL & TIMED
Overview of characteristics
Active in Countries
- Netherlands: InFECT-NL, AI4MRI, labs and hospital.
- Indonesia, Gabon: field studies on mucosal/respiratory immunity
- Multi-country: partnerships around the world to develop/validate a rapid schistosomiasis test for Asian & African settings.
CoP (community of practice)
- CoP1: Strengthening health Systems
- CoP2: Pandemic Preparedness
- CoP3: Climate change & Health
Themes and subthemes within CoP
CoP1: Population Health Management / prevention & data, Academic Pharma / research-to-products & market-readiness, Women’s health -> improving health care especially in LMIC’s.
CoP2: Vaccines/therapeutics testing (CHIM), scaling countermeasure testing (InFECT-NL)
CoP3: Sustainable hospitals / Green Care (decarbonizing care, circularity). Part of Dutch Green Deal Zorg.
Organization type:
Research institute
Available resources
- Knowledge & Expertise: Medical & scientific knowledge, research, public health (systems), sustainable healthcare (all academic)
- Networks: Linked and partnered with Dutch and international UMCs, ministries, research institutes, global health consortia.
- Influence/agenda setting: Through Campus The Hague, LUMC informs Dutch health-policy on prevention & equitable care. Thought leadership: shaping medical curricula and national strategies.
- Financial leverage/access to funding: Participation in national and EU-funded consortia (ZonMw, Health~Holland, Horizon Europe), attracting clinical trial funding
- Coordination & platform capability: Multi-sectoral research, health care & stakeholders (through InFECT-NL, Medical Delta, etc)