Partners

KNAW
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is the forum, conscience, and voice of the arts and sciences in the Netherlands. It promotes quality in science and scholarship and strives to ensure that Dutch scholars and scientists contribute to cultural, social and economic progress. As a research organization, the Academy is responsible for a group of fifteen outstanding national research institutes, including the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht. 

 

UMC Utrecht
University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) belongs to the largest public healthcare institutions in the Netherlands and is an internationally leading healthcare provider, medical school and research institute that is exciting for its people, attractive to talent and embodies a culture of teamwork, innovation, sustainability and a competitive spirit. As a patient-centered organization, its 11,000 employees are dedicated to prevent disease, improve healthcare, develop new treatment methods and refine existing ones, with quality and patient safety as cornerstones. In the UMC Utrecht research is concentrated in six programs with each a limited number of disease targets.

 

UU
Utrecht University is an international research university of the highest quality and the alma mater of many leading names, academics and scientists who have made an important contribution to the quality of society. The Utrecht University is the largest university of the Netherlands, with 7 faculties, 6700 staff members, 600 professors, 550 PhD graduation a year, and 30.000 bachelor and master students.

 

EMBL
Founded in 1974, EMBL is Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organization with more than 80 independent research groups covering the spectrum of molecular biology. It operates across six sites (Heidelberg, Barcelona, Hamburg, Grenoble, Rome and EMBL-EBI Hinxton) and has 9 partnerships, including the Hubrecht Institute.