OpenFieldUniversity Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), affiliated with the University of Groningen, is one of the largest academic hospitals in Europe, world-renowned for its "Healthy Ageing" focus, the Lifelines cohort biobank, solid organ transplantation, and proton beam therapy.
Tracing its medical roots back to the founding of the University of Groningen in 1614, UMCG is an internationally celebrated medical research citadel employing over 13,000 staff, educating nearly 4,000 medical and biomedical students, and treating more than 800,000 patients annually. UMCG is designated as the Dutch national referral center for multiorgan transplantation and home to the Lifelines Cohort Study—a premier three-generation prospective biobank monitoring 167,000 participants over 30 years. UMCG operates Europe’s first pencil-beam scanning proton therapy center and spearheads global breakthroughs in mitochondrial medicine, immunogenetics, and oncological radiobiology.
Four-year fully salaried doctoral research appointment (Promovendus) at the Graduate School of Medical Sciences investigating cellular senescence and immune longevity.
Prestigious full scholarship covering all tuition, international travel, health insurance, and monthly living costs for talented medical/biomedical master's students.
Two-year elite research master utilizing multi-omics and longitudinal phenotypic data from 167,000 participants in the Lifelines biobank.
Three-year English-taught medical bachelor degree covering organ systems, pathology, public health epidemiology, and clinical diagnostic reasoning.
Two-year medical physics postdoctoral fellowship developing real-time CT adaptive radiation delivery and radiobiological modeling for proton therapy.
Eight-week funded summer internship performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and polygenic risk scoring on the Lifelines cohort data.
Four-month intensive masterclass on normothermic machine perfusion of donor livers and kidneys, viability biomarkers, and ex-vivo reconditioning.
Spinoza Laureate & Professor of Human Genetics
Winner of the Dutch Spinoza Prize, deciphering the genetic architecture of gluten intolerance and autoimmune bowel disorders through complex multi-omics analyses of the Lifelines cohort.
Topics: Celiac Disease Genetics, Gut Microbiome Genomics, Genome-Wide Association Studies
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Surgery and Head of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery & Liver Transplantation
World-leading transplant surgeon pioneering machine perfusion technologies that preserve and recondition marginal donor livers, dramatically reducing graft discard rates.
Topics: Normothermic Machine Perfusion, Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Ex-Vivo Liver Reconditioning
View researcher profile ↗Chair of Radiation Oncology & Clinical Director of Groningen Proton Therapy Center
Radiation oncologist who pioneered the world-standard "model-based approach" for patient selection in proton therapy, reducing severe xerostomia and dysphagia in cancer patients.
Topics: Proton Beam Therapy, Model-Based Selection in Radiation Oncology, Head and Neck Radiation Toxicity
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