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Professor (ESHPM) Carin Uyl-de Groot states it is unfair that in many countries patients have to wait a long time before expensive medicine become available.

Professor of paediatrics and research leader Vincent Jaddoe looks back and ahead. "The first 1,000 days in life are crucial for health," he says.

Informing patients properly leads to better decisions in their treatment. But what if that patient is between 6 and 12 years old, and has a brain disorder?

Dr. Julie Nonnekens and Dr. Charlotte Cecil have both been granted a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

The app Together for Her provides pregnant women in India with the right information and care. The Rotterdam Global Health Initiative is partner in the project.

With her fight against the taboo on heavy menstrual blood loss EUR-student Yara Dixon has been named Medicine student of the year 2021.

PhD student Laurenske Visser assessed whether patients would prefer an implant as an alternative to injections or pills.

Researcher and entrepreneur Miao-Ping Chien of Erasmus MC explains what she thinks is needed to combine science with entrepreneurship.

Deisseroth is regarded as the founder of optogenetics, a technique that makes it possible to use light to activate specific brain cells.

IC pharmacist Nicole Hunfeld won the EUR Sustainability Award for the project 'The Green Intensive Care', to make ICUs as sustainable and circular as possible.