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One of the founders of the Dutch Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) is professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology Brenda Penninx, leading researcher in the field of depression and anxiety. Her approach is interdisciplinary and large scale.

The unique multidisciplinary collaboration between surgeons and internists makes Amsterdam UMC’s orbital center the primary referral center for patients with Graves’ disease from all over the world.

Researchers from the Intensive Care Medicine and Physiology departments were the first in the world to show that diaphragm muscle fibers possess the required receptors for the corona virus and that virus particles invaded the diaphragm muscle fibers.