Health

Members of the Network on Health

Imperial College

Ensuring that the world is prepared for outbreaks of infectious disease is the goal of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College, launched in 2007. As well as analysing new outbreaks of existing diseases such as polio, the Centre will also focus on infections which could pose a serious threat in the future, such as avian flu.

TU Delft

Three internationally renowned universities in the Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University, and the pioneering medical centers Leiden University Medical Center and Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam have formed a Health Science and Technology research partnership.

ETH Zurich

Diabetes is one of the most significant metabolic disorders in the industrialized world. Together with the Roche company and the University of Zurich Hospital, ETH Zurich started a large-scale research initiative using a systems biology approach to combat Type-2 diabetes. The project is centered at ETH Zurich’s Competence Center for Systems Physiology and Metabolic Diseases (CC-SPMD), where metabolic illnesses are the main research interest, with special emphasis on diabetes.

RWTH Aachen University

The Helmholtz Institute of Biomedical Technology best illustrates the structural integration of individual disciplines involving doctors, engineers and natural scientists. Interdisciplinary research teams work in the key areas molecular disease aetiology, the neurosciences, and the field of medicine, environment and technology.

ParisTech

Numerous ParisTech teams are involved in research on health issues, such as nutrition, proton therapy for the treatment of cancer in zones which are inaccessible to surgical instruments, medical imaging, especially of the brain and the economics of health.