The department of General Internal Medicine is a large tertiairy care facility with a substantial and diverse involvement in the academic missions of patient care, teaching and research. The department is formally divided in three sections. The research of each section is closely connected to its specific patient groups .
We perform research in de following areas:
- Infectious diseases, host defense and inflammation embedded In the Nijmegen Institute for Infection, Inflammation and Immunity (N4i).
- Vascular Medicine (atherosclerosis and hypertension), embedded in Nijmegen Centre for Evidence Based Practice (MCEBP) and research Institute for Genetic and Metabolic Disease (IgMD).
- Diabetes and metabolism, embedded in the IgMD
The research inspired by observations at the bedside, is carried out in the Laboratory of Experimental Internal Medicine and the Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology Unit of our department. A major aim is to translate the findings of this research back to the clinical arena to the benefit of the patient.