1. Ed Koster
Operational manager Radboud Research Facilities
Science Meets Business
Theme: Partners in Innovation
December 11th 2014
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Welcome

2. Radboud campus (2,5 km2, 19.500 students, 15.000
employees)
Radboud Research Facilities, December 11th 2014

3. Objective Radboud Research Facilities
Technology
Help users
to find the right Radboud expertise to answer the user’s need
by providing an integrated technological infrastructure
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4. Radboud Research Facility
• The Radboud Research Facility is the platform in which we plan to establish
Radboud Campus Contract Research in the future.
• Our partners in 2014 are: Gelderland Provincial Authorities, Radboudumc, the
Faculty of Social Sciences, Dondersinstituut, the Faculty of Science and 25
companies (including small and mid-sized businesses)
GOAL: We plan to open our combined laboratory facilities to businesses
and other learning institutions.

5. Partners in the Radboud Research Facilities
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6. Technical infrastructures
Free Electron Lasers
Nanolab
High Magnetic Field Laboratory
NMR Pavilion
http://www.ru.nl/
Behavioural Science
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7. Technical infrastructures
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Animal
studies Translational
neuroscience
Image-guided
treatment
Imaging
Microscopy
Biobank
Health
economics
Mass
Spectrometry
Radboudumc
Technology
Centers
Investigational
products
Clinical
trialsEHR-based
research
Statistics
Human
physiology
Data
stewardship
Molecule
Flow
cytometry
www.radboudumc.nl/research/technologycenters
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8. Health and Disease
• Genetic biobanks
• Patient groups
• Animal models
Behaviour
• Vestibular sled
• ‘Reach-in-3D’ virtual
reality setup with force-
feedback equipment
Brain
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) at 1.5, 3 and 7 Tesla
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Electroencephalography (EEG)
• Transcranial Magnetic
Stimulation (TMS)
Cognition
• Baby-lab
• Artificial intelligence lab
Technical infrastructures
http://www.ru.nl/donders
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9. Radboud Research Facilities, December 11th 2014

10. Social relevance
Radboud Research Facilities aims to
• Reinforce the economic structure of the province of Gelderland;
• Create new jobs in the short and long term;
• Fulfill the needs of market participants;
• Enable collaboration between small and large businesses;
• Attract highly trained experts from within the Netherlands and abroad;
• Foster innovation.

11. More details? www.radboudresearchfacilities.nl
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