Focus on: stroke, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and ALS.
Ambition: to be internationally competetive in the field of gene-environment interaction research.
The overall mission is to perform top-level research in Clinical & Experimental Neuroscience. The choice of the research topics is disease-driven, focusing on areas in which Utrecht has sizeable patient cohorts, a national reference role and conducts internationally competitive research. Research approaches are frontline and state of the art.
Over the past years, patient care and research in Clinical & Experimental Neuroscience have already focused on a restricted number of diseases. This makes the research program coherent and easy to recognize. Substantial patient cohorts have been ‘generated’ in these fields, with excellent facilities for top referent care.
The leading principle is that for sizeable patient cohorts (including the four themes selected for Brain), care and research are combined whenever possible. This allows research from bed to bench to bed. The potential for translational research is very high.
Psychiatrist Prof. René Kahn: “Our research will rank among the world’s finest in the field of gene environment interaction.”