Child Health: combines research in chronic inflammation, respiratory infections, orphan diseases and fertility interventions.
Ambition: provide top referent care for specific pediatric patient groups and prevent chronic disorders in children
The program Child Health wants to improve child health by means of coordinated multidisciplinary, multidimensional translational research. Researchers in the program perform state of the art, high impact pre-clinical research associated with high standard clinical care in child health, ranging from the pre-natal life into adulthood. This goal will be attained by promoting the growth of young talented scientists towards top-level independent research leaders, facilitating multidisciplinary research projects, and by actively collaborating with research groups both within and outside the UMC Utrecht.
The Child Health program builds on the yield of the passed years. It aims at realizing the potential in the fields of genetics and regenerative medicine of orphan diseases. The combination of translational and clinical research groups, the unique stem cell transplant program, the outstanding research on stem cells at the Hubrecht Institute and the molecular genetics program will come together with the goal and the ambition to become a leading research centre in Child Health world wide.
Pediatric gastroenterologist Prof. Edward Nieuwenhuis: “In 2015 we are ready to perform the first ever bowel tissue transplantation in children with epithelial bowel disorders.”