Following a visit by a delegation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to the Netherlands in early 2007, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the Chinese city of Dalian between CAS, NGI, NWO and the Dutch research institute TNO on the set up of a joint research centre: “The Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalised Medicine”.
This joint effort aims to bridge the holistic and personalised approach of traditional Chinese medicine and the upcoming systems biology approach in contemporary life sciences research. Starting point of the collaboration is the view that combining knowledge and methods of Chinese and Western medicine offers a unique opportunity to fuel the development of a whole new generation of diagnostics for both preventive and personalised health care.
