AR&D annual report 2018

Starting the circle of life
The Amsterdam Reproduction and Development (AR&D)
research institute is unique in its goals and ambition. The
institute covers themes that comprise the Circle of Life: from
preconception through pregnancy and child development
to long-term health. It encompasses research that focuses
on long-term health effects on both mother and child, of
disease and interventions during preconception, conception,
embryonic and foetal development, pregnancy and birth, as
well as child development and effects on reproductive organ
function (see Figure 1).
The ambition of AR&D is to enhance the field of reproduction
and development nationwide and to sustainably improve
health care for mother and child (future generations).
AR&D integrates various disciplinary approaches within the
Amsterdam UMC and their affiliated centres and has connections
with virtually all other Amsterdam UMC research
institutes. AR&D researchers study the effects of genetics,
environment, nutrition, disease and interventions on the
developmental process from gamete to adult. In the institute,
basic, translational, psychosocial and clinical research scientists
work together to maximally improve health care.
For more information and videos of AR&D, please visit
www.amsterdamresearch.org.
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Health - Disease
Genetics - Environment
Nutrition - Interventions
Pregnancy
and birth
Child
development
Embryonic
and fetal
development
Circle
of Life
Long-term
health
Conception
Preconception
Reproductieve
organ function