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Welcome to the Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center

The Netherlands Women’s Health Research Center at Erasmus MC is a Research & Innovation Center dedicated to advancing women's health. We foster collaboration among academics, consumers, policymakers, and clinicians to explore the factors influencing women's health and wellbeing throughout their lives.

Based in the Department of Internal Medicine, the Center coordinates the Erasmus MC Women’s Health Research and Innovation Roadmaps and Programs. Our vision is to evolve over time into a Regional Health Partners hub and ultimately establish a National Women’s Health Research & Innovation Coalition of the willing for Translation and Impact.

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A situational overview

  • Women spend 25% more life in poor health than men.
  • Poor health of women affects society.
  • Knowledge gap in women's health costs €12,6 billion
  • Innovation could reduce these costs by 42%.
  • Inconsistent data on women's health limits progress

We are the Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center

The Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center at Erasmus MC focuses on advancing women’s health through transdisciplinary research, addressing biological, socio-economic, and environmental factors, and developing innovative solutions to improve health outcomes across women’s life course.
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Amazing Netherlands Women's Health Research and Innovation

  • More efficient and effective healthcare for women could save billions News

    More efficient and effective healthcare for women could save billions

    According to the latest report of the World Economic Forum, at least €7.6 billion in healthcare costs could be saved in the Netherlands if women receive the effective care they need. However, this requires investment in the diagnosis and treatment of women. The newly established Netherlands Women’s Health Research & Innovation Center at Erasmus MC […]

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  • Discovery of new target in aggressive breast cancer opens door for new immunotherapy News

    Discovery of new target in aggressive breast cancer opens door for new immunotherapy

    Researchers from Erasmus MC have found a novel target for immunotherapy for an aggressive form of breast cancer. They isolated a receptor from white blood cells that recognizes the target and took the first steps towards a clinical treatment. “It was like searching for a needle in a haystack.”

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  • New generation of immune cells against breast cancer News

    New generation of immune cells against breast cancer

    Prof. Dr. Reno Debets, researcher within the Internal Oncology department of the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, has received a subsidy of over 900,000 euros from KWF for his research on new immune cells for the treatment of breast cancer. The aim of the research is to create, through a public-private partnership, a new generation of […]

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  • Brown fat: men versus women News

    Brown fat: men versus women

    Brown fat cells burn fat. How do we activate brown fat as a treatment for obesity? That’s what Alba Sabaté Pérez is going to investigate, thanks to the NWO ENW-XS grant she recently received. Her starting point: differences between men and women.

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  • Cristina Gontan Pardo is fascinated by the X chromosome News

    Cristina Gontan Pardo is fascinated by the X chromosome

    Scientist Cristina Gontan Pardo has a great love for the X chromosome. It is a major source of health disparities between men and women, she believes. And more people should know that. ‘When I ask colleagues whether the cells they are working with are male or female, they often have no idea.’

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  • Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes News

    Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes

    Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology to find a link between alterations in the shape of children’s faces and the amount of alcohol their mothers drank, both before becoming pregnant and during pregnancy.

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