about AMC

The Academic Medical Center Amsterdam (in short AMC) is one of the biggest institutions for health research in the Netherlands, as well as one of its largest hospitals. The center has brought its close collaboration with the VU Medical Center to the further level of an administrative merger (Amsterdam UMC), with a view to a full legal fusion to take place in the near future. However, until that time, formally, the two organisations remain legally separate, each with their own PICs. Over 7000 people work here to provide integrated patient care, fundamental and clinical scientific research, and teaching. The AMC complex houses the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of University of Amsterdam as well as the Emma Children’s Hospital, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, the Medical Department of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development. In addition, the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging building, Amsterdam Skills Centre and a number of biotech companies (some of which are AMC spin-offs) are also located on the premises. Some 1500 members of staff are either fully or partially employed in medical research. The AMC has selected eight research institutes in which fields it aspires to excel: Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Metabolism, Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development and Amsterdam Movement Sciences. The AMC encourages Open Science and fully endorses the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and consistently promotes, facilitates and ensures conduction of scientific research according to the principles of conduct for research integrity in and across the University Medical Centers in Amsterdam best pursued with a wide diversity of staff. The AMC takes part in the Amsterdam UMC Doctoral School where a total of 408 PhDs (67% female) for both locations were awarded in 2022, supervision training is offered and there is an active PhD student network.

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Mariska Leeflang

Graduated as a veterinarian in 2003, I obtained my PhD at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics of the University of Amsterdam in 2008 on the topic “Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy”. In 2010, I obtained a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research highly competitive and prestigious VENI grant for “New methods for comparative evaluations of diagnostic tests” and in 2016 the Aspasia premium for excellent female researchers. My work is built upon three pillars: systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy, primary studies for test-evaluation and reproducible research. My presentation record includes presentations for the Gates’ Foundation and the British Society of Parasitology. Within Cochrane, the largest organisation in development and dissemination of systematic reviews, I am co-convenor of the Screening and Diagnostic Test Methods group and editor of their Handbook for diagnostic systematic reviews.

Gowri Gopalakrishna

Gowri is an epidemiologist by training who had various roles in big pharma, NGO and government in Asia and Europe before commencing her PhD in 2011. In 2003/4, she was involved in the control and prevention of the SARS epidemic in Singapore and later, was part of an independent civic advisory group in The Netherlands providing review and critique on the Dutch covid 19 national prevention and control measures as well as on the quality of Covid-19 research being produced. She was principal investigator of the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity from 2018-2022, Chair of the Equity Coordinating Committee of the International Federation of Biosafety Associations (2020-2021) and member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Dutch Assistant Professors Network. Her current research focuses on research integrity, open science and reproducibility in Europe as well as in East and sub Saharan Africa where she leads a three year Horizon project on strengthening clinical trial research quality. She is also actively involved in Maastricht University’s research integrity and ethics policies through the University’s dedicated platform for research ethics & integrity. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Science Engineering and Ethics.

Ayu Dewi

Ayu Dewi is a PhD researcher working on Open Science to Increase Reproducibility of OSIRIS project based in AMC (Amsterdam UMC). She has a background in veterinary medicine and public health trained in Indonesia and several years of experience with international organizations, working on epidemiology research projects in Indonesia and France. She is primarily interested in controlling zoonotic diseases and advocating for high-quality research using multidisciplinary approaches.