Pharmacy

Children and medications are often not a good combination. The pills are too big, taste awful or the dosage is incorrect. Erasmus MC and TNO are starting research into a possible solution: personalized pills from a 3D printer.

Young, old, male, female, born prematurely or not yet born: no patient at Erasmus MC is the same. Researchers are working on ways to treat everyone with the right drug, in the right dose.

Internist and oncologist Stefan Sleijfer and hospital pharmacist Roelof van Leeuwen of Erasmus MC Cancer Institute are working closely together to make cancer therapies more effective. This is not only good for patients, but also for public coffers and for the environment. These efforts save the department of Internal Oncology about EUR 7 million per […]