University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) is one of the largest public healthcare institutions in the Netherlands. With 10,000 employees, UMC Utrecht is constantly building on the provision of good healthcare services, based on the right people and knowledge. Healthcare cannot improve without new knowledge about health and disease, and patients will not receive better healthcare without people who can generate, apply and share this knowledge. UMC Utrecht’s core activities are therefore:

• To carry out cutting-edge scientific research from “bench to bedside”;
• To provide state-of-the-art healthcare that requires special knowledge and expertise; and
• To offer excellent healthcare programs and training to students, medical and biomedical researchers, doctors and other academic professionals.

This is summarized in the mission statement on which all our activities are based:

“UMC Utrecht aims to be an internationally leading university medical center, where knowledge about health, disease, and healthcare is generated, tested, shared and applied.”

In turn, this mission is reflected in the motto for our strategy: “Care about knowledge – knowledge about care.”