Our Mission
Our mission is to train academic professionals who can collaborate, also with other disciplines, and have acquired the skills and knowledge to solve the big challenges we are facing in the (bio)medical domain, ultimately improving global health.
How do we achieve that? Already at the early undergraduate phase, students should learn by doing, via current societally relevant cases, learn through inter/transdisciplinary collaboration and with role models, patients and other stakeholders. We believe that creating synergy in this research-teaching nexus is the way forward.
For this purpose, we established the Biomedicine Student Research Hub, a unique laboratory space for students in the University Medical Center Utrecht where they, supported by dedicated staff, work together with researchers, medical doctors and patients.
About us
The Biomedicine Student Research Hub is a dedicated and well-equipped laboratory that is positioned in the heart of the University Medical Centre Utrecht. The Hub reinforces the research-teaching-healthcare nexus, creating mutual incentives and benefits for (under)graduate students, (clinical-) scientists
Our Story
Society and healthcare systems of the future need T-shaped professionals, who have the academic skills and competencies to work in multidisciplinary teams in a globally-oriented environment. Therefore, we aim to strengthen and synergize the research-teaching-healthcare nexus from medical needs to bench to bedside to society and back again. Already at the early undergraduate phase, students should engage in inquiry-based learning (learn by doing), research/challenge-based learning (learn via real-world cases), multidisciplinary learning (learn by collaboration), and situated learning (learn with role-models, patients and other stakeholders). To this end, we have founded the Bachelor Research Hub in 2020, a dedicated innovation space where bachelor students in Biomedical Sciences and Medicine perform real research together with investigators, patients and medical doctors of the University Medical Center Utrecht.
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Teacher Talk
A Teacher Talk with Niels Bovenschen.