The Executive Board of TU/e has decided to establish a new research institute focused on Transformative Health Technology. This decision represents an important step in strengthening TU/e’s strategic position in the priority areas, as defined in the Institutional Plan 2026–2030. The institute’s ambition is to contribute to affordable, accessible, and sustainable solutions that improve health and well-being. The institute will officially launch in January 2027 and will bring together a broad group of researchers, directly or indirectly, from across most TU/e faculties.
Building impact
With the establishment of HEALTH, TU/e emphasizes its commitment to societal impact through technology. The institute will be a central hub that is stimulating strong synergy between TU/e’s health-tech innovations and clinical needs through close collaboration with clinical, societal, and industrial partners.
The institute will continue to build on a strong community in health-related research and innovation and will consolidate core strengths into focused research themes.
The first theme, Future Health, focuses on reducing the burden of chronic inflammatory diseases, including cardiovascular, autoimmune, and rheumatic disorders. The institute will integrate fundamental research in regenerative medicine, imaging, predictive disease modelling, and lifestyle interventions with outside-in knowledge, concentrating on system solutions and technologies that shift the focus from managing these diseases to curing and preventing them.
The second theme, Future Cure & Care, focuses on how these innovations are assessed, adopted, and implemented in society, while addressing the health system burden due to chronic diseases. Because achieving impact and value creation in practice does not happen automatically, including integration into care processes and acceptance by healthcare professionals and patients, this is a dedicated theme within the institute. It builds on TU/e’s strengths in clinical informatics and system integration, human-AI/robot collaboration, and decision support in simulated ecosystems and living labs, and will be further developed with TU/e’s internal and external community.