Health & Care

Healthcare is under pressure. Medical professionals want to offer their patients the best and the right care, but face staff shortages, rising healthcare costs and a substantial sustainability problem, among others. In collaboration with medical professionals, TU Delft is working on the long-term sustainability of healthcare. Through research and innovation, TU Delft aims to improve patient care and the work of healthcare professionals, and to future-proof and crisis-proof the complex and often inefficient healthcare system.

With over 30% health-related research, a top clinical hospital on our doorstep, and two major academic hospitals in the region, TU Delft makes a global impact.

Whether developing medical instruments, monitoring, remote care, imaging & sensing, rapid diagnostics or clinical research. Delft engineers are the ideal partner; from the start they work together as a team, involve patients in their research and test as much as possible in healthcare practice. As a result, new technologies are more applicable in practice and find their way more quickly to the OR, the consulting room and the patient's bedside.

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New tool for organ repair: curvature of the environment

Making an impact

Manometric

In 2017 Pieter Smakman started Manometric, manufacturing made-to-measure braces using unique 3D scanning and printing technology.

Bi/OND

2017 Delft-based startup Bi/OND operates where advanced engineering and biology meet and aims to revolutionise drug testing.

OlDelft

The mission of OIDelft’s seventy strong staff is to simplify and improve the job of doctors the world over through hightech echo transducers.

Scientists in the spotlight

“Precision diagnostics like this saves time and money but, more importantly, it reduces discomfort and pain for patients.”

Prof.dr.ir. Jaap Harlaar

“The healthcare system need to change from reactive to proactive. Conventional methods will not make that happen.”

Prof. dr. ir. Richard Goossens

“We are the first in the world to measure heart rythm disorders in this way, both in adults and children.”

Prof. dr. Natasja de Groot

“As technology and medical science merge, new ethical issues inevitably present themselves.”

Dr. Samantha Copeland

“Our technique is a one-stop-shop: a single treatment which then goes on to do its job in the body by itself.”

Dr. Kristina Djanashvili

“To find out what exactly goes wrong in the brain of Alzheimer sufferers we compare their dna and protein data with those of healthy people .”

Prof.dr.ir. Marcel Reinders

Would you like to find out more?

Science Information Officer Health & Care

Fien Bosman
06 2495 3733
f.j.bosman@tudelft.nl

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