The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw, www.zonmw.nl ) is the national organisation that promotes quality and innovation in the field of health research and health care, initiating and fostering new developments. ZonMw also actively promotes the transfer and implementation of new knowledge between all relevant stakeholders (health researchers, health professionals, patients/consumers and the general public). This in turn guarantees emerging health care issues a place on the research agenda.

In short, one of ZonMw’s key challenges is to facilitate research and innovation among the various stakeholders along our knowledge base: from basic, strategic including translational and applied research to daily health care services and vice versa. ZonMw manages and administrates about 90 national programmes commissioned by the Ministry of Health (VWS) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Thereby ZonMw is responsible for distributing a major part of the resources available for health research and health care innovation, mounting up till an annual 170 million euro. Several dedicated programmes address translational research in its various aspects, such as gene therapy.

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