Collaboration

Together with experts from other (inter)national organizations, we aim to ensure that every patient is cared for by the most suitable medical professionals in the most optimal way and can benefit from the latest insights. Read more about our activities and insights on collaboration.

December 16, 2021
Preventing Alzheimer before it starts Dementia has to be prevented. As young as possible. The Dutch project ABOARD (A personalized medicine approach for Alzheimer’s disease), a collaboration of more than thirty partners was launched in 2021. Aim is to prepare for a future in which Alzheimer’s disease is stopped before dementia has started
December 3, 2021
Regional collaboration between brain tumor experts makes faster referrals possible The introduction of a triage panel of specialists from hospitals in the region has resulted in faster certainty for patients with a suspected brain tumor. The time between the initial scan and the start of treatment has also been substantially reduced.
- Cancer
- Collaboration
November 29, 2021
World's first algorithm developed that detects kidney rejection Amsterdam UMC researchers are among a team that has developed the world’s first AI algorithm that can detect whether rejection has occurred following a kidney transplant.
November 27, 2021
Using data analysis to improve public health At Amsterdam UMC we will be able to help our patients ever better and more precisely in the future by making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze large amounts of useful data. For example, this will allow us to detect symptoms earlier and make faster diagnostic and treatment decisions. The ‘AI Technology for People’ partnership will help us to achieve these aims.Data provide insight into patient characteristics, lifestyles, illnesses, care outcomes, and the links between them.
November 25, 2021
Improving care for patients with liver tumors via a regional care pathway Providing accurate care for all patients with tumors in the liver in the region North Holland and Flevoland.
- Cancer
- Collaboration
September 30, 2021
Centralization empowers super-specialists in cancer healthcare The merger of Amsterdam UMC expertise centers continues to break new ground in providing highly specialized state-of-the-art patient care.
- Cancer
- Collaboration
September 30, 2021
Combining strengths to spur innovations in oncology and neurology ADORE stands for Amsterdam Oncology and Neuroscience Research and represents a daring new way of performing biomedical research.
September 14, 2021
Shorter referral times for patients with brain tumors With a growing centralization of care, regional collaboration and appropriate referral management are crucial. The neuro-oncological triage panel aims to optimize the referral process of newly-diagnosed brain tumor patients.
August 31, 2021
An atlas for treating brain tumors, toxicity mapping by Amsterdam UMC and Medstone Medstone and Amsterdam UMC are joining forces in an ambitious research project, searching for better treatment options for patients with brain cancer. Various specialists are working together in this collaboration between Amsterdam UMC and pharmaceutical company Medstone - from neuro-oncologist to PhD student and data scientist. We asked six of them about the motivation for this multidisciplinary project and the goals they will be working towards during the coming four years