HER-CARE

Hereditary and Early onset breast cancer: Comprehensive personalized Assessment, early Risk Evaluation, and clinical management (HER-CARE) is an innovative doctoral training programme, funded by the European Commission through a MSCA-DN grant.

The consortium brings together state-of-the-art research groups across 20 leading academic institutions (9 beneficiaries, 11 associated partners) and 13 top industrial organizations (3 beneficiaries, 10 associated partners) to study early onset and hereditary breast cancer. 

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HER-CARE is a uniquely positioned consortium that will address the entire spectrum of breast cancer risk factors and development of personalized preventative and clinical management strategies. Want to know more? Discover the 15 topics we’re working on here.

Through close collaboration, including scientific meetings, theoretical courses, and practical workshops, HER-CARE unites researchers from diverse disciplines.

Team

Coordination and management

Project coordinator 
Marjanka K. Schmidt    NKI

Project manager and Dissemination and Impact manager
Lisanne Verhoef    NKI

Projectmanager
Rosa de Groot        NKI

Training manager
Elizabeth Loehrer    NKI

Data manager
Renske Keeman    NKI

Communication and Exploitation manager
Tom Hueting        EVI

Support team (NKI)

Director of Operations
Henri van Luenen         

Financial manager                              
Juul van der Zaan

 

Project manager                                
Hans Wienk

 

Legal expert                                       
Hylke Galama

 

Knowledge transfer & contracting     
Koen Verhoef

 

Science communications
Sanne Hijlkema

Scientific advisory board

Suzette Delaloge,          Goustave Roussy Institute, France
Rebecca Fitzgerald       Early Cancer Institute, United Kingdom
Caroline Drukker           Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands
Jelle Wesseling             Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands
Irma van de Beek          Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands

Her Care Team