Jaap Harlaar and Gerjo van Osch appointed Medical Delta professors

News - 18 June 2020 - Webredactie 3ME

Today, Medical Delta, the interdisciplinary consortium for technological solutions in healthcare, is announcing nine new Medical Delta professors. Two members of the 3mE faculty have been appointed, namely Jaap Harlaar, professor of biomechatronics & Human Machine Control, and Professor Gerjo van Osch, parttime professor Integrative Cartilage Regeneration at the department of BioMechanical Engineering and Principal Investigator Orthopaedics & Otorhinolaryngology at Erasmus MC.

The nine new Medical Delta professors introduce themselves in the following video:

The professors will receive a dual appointment at two or more of the five academic institutions in the province of South Holland (LUMC, Leiden University, TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University) affiliated with Medical Delta. The professors will focus on interdisciplinary research in the field of health & technology. They will join the thirteen professors already working with Medical Delta who were appointed by the academic institutions in recent years.

Medical Delta
Medical Delta is an interdisciplinary consortium of more than 280 academics from Erasmus University, Erasmus MC, TU Delft, LUMC, Leiden University and universities of applied science who are working with companies and authorities to develop technological solutions for the healthcare sector.