About our Department
Our research
The department’s research programme is called Clinical and Experimental Medicine (CEM). CEM focuses on three research themes:
1. Hormones and Metabolism
2. Vascular Health and Aging
3. Transplantation, Infection and Immunity
Each research theme harbours three to four research groups, amounting to a total of ten research groups that each have a laboratory.
All research groups are connected by four cross-connections in order to stimulate intradepartmental collaboration and share resources and expertise. For sustainability, each cross-connection is based on a business case and has dedicated research personnel.
I. The Trial Bureau facilitates and supports clinical trials and utilises revenues from industry-sponsored trials to support investigator-initiated studies.
II. Genomics aims to extend the possibilities of genetic testing from populations to patient cohorts; the scientists who coordinate this cross-connection are also part of the Erasmus MC Genomics Core Facility.
III. Nutritional Assessment enables researchers to apply state-of-the-art technologies to assess nutritional status, including bio-impedance, muscle ultrasound and indirect calorimetry; this cross-connection benefits from the fact that all dietitians are embedded within our department.
IV. Human Disease Models integrates in vitro and ex vivo models to study human disease, including organ-on-chip technologies and organoids.
Principal Investigators
Principle Investigators laboratories Sector Endocrinology
- Delhanty, P.J.D.
- Eerden, B.C.J. van der
- Feelders, R.A.
- de Graaff-Herder, L.C.G.
- Herder, W.W. de
- Hofland, J.
- Hofland, L.J.
- Iyer, A.
- Lelij, A.J. van der
- Meima, M.E.
- Mulugeta, E.
- Neggers, S.J.C.M.M.
- Peeters, R.P.
- Rivadineira, F.
- Visser, W.E.
- Visser, J.A.
- Driel, M.J.J.E. van
- Peppel, H.J. van de
- Meurs, J.B.J. van
- Rossum, E.F.C. van
- Uitterlinden, A.G.
- Zillikens, M.C.
Principle Investigators laboratories Sector Nephrology and Transplantation
- Baan, C.C.
- Besouw, N.M. van
- Hoogduijn, M.J.
- Hoorn, E.J.
- Litjens, N.H.R.
- Zietse, R.
Principle Investigators Laboratories Pharmacology, Vascular and Metabolic Diseases
- Danser, A.H.J.
- Friesema, E.C.H.
- Langendonk, J.G.
- Maassen van den Brink, A.
- Mulder, M.T.
- Roks, A.J.M.
- Sijbrands, E.J.G.
- Verhoeven, A.J.M.
