About us
Every tumor tells a different story. We want to understand it.
When you read out a tumor’s DNA, you don’t get a simple answer. You get roughly 3 billion building blocks. An enormous amount of information. What does that information tell us about this patient’s tumor and the treatment most likely to work? That is exactly what Hartwig Medical Foundation works on every day.
We develop smart software and diagnostic solutions that analyze and interpret large amounts of patient and tumor information. From the deepest level of the tumor (the DNA) to information about treatments and patient outcomes.
Because the more relevant data we can connect, the better we can understand cancer. And the better we understand cancer, the better doctors can help with treatment decisions.
Data that goes beyond a single patient
At Hartwig, we believe the value of data only truly emerges when you can share, connect, and interpret it. That’s why we are building a large international database in which genetic information is linked to treatment data and outcomes. This allows researchers to discover patterns that would remain hidden when analyzing a single patient. Knowledge that can contribute to new insights and alternative treatments for future patients.
We make this rich data available for research that serves the public interest. This is done carefully, under a strict governance structure, within applicable privacy regulations, and only with the consent of the patients involved.
A team that brings together technology and care for with cancer
Achieving this takes more than medical knowledge alone. Our team includes software developers, molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, and physicians, among others. Together, we build the technology to make complex data understandable and usable for healthcare.
From Amsterdam, Sydney, and Toronto, we collaborate with hospitals, researchers, and scientific institutes around the world. As an independent nonprofit foundation, we have no vested interests. Everything we develop, research, and share is meant to give patients and their treating physicians more insight, faster. So that no precious time is lost.
Together we make a difference
The challenges in caring for patients with cancer are too big to solve alone. That’s why we actively seek collaboration with healthcare professionals, hospitals, researchers, scientific institutes, technology partners, and other organizations that want to move forward.
Whether it’s our diagnostic solutions, the use of our data for research, or co-developing new technology: if it can contribute to better and faster decision-making for people with cancer, we’re keen to get involved and help move things forward.
Hartwig Medical Foundation. Understanding data. Treating cancer better.
Mission statement
To promote scientific research in the fight against and treatment of cancer and other diseases, in the broadest sense and provided it is in the public interest.
Vision
We believe that personalized treatment of cancer patients is only possible if all relevant diagnostic information about the patient and their tumor is available at the start of the treatment process.
Organization and board members
Hartwig Medical Foundation is an independent foundation partly funded by philanthropy. The foundation has no profit motive and reinvests all acquired funds in achieving its mission. The board consists of Edwin Cuppen (scientific director), Robert Jan Lamers (managing director), Lotte Smits (director legal, people and business support) and Arno de Quaasteniet (chief information officer ).
Employees
Meet our enthusiastic team of lab analysts, bioinformaticians, IT specialists, clinicians and more!
Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia
We work closely with the software development team of Hartwig Medical Foundation Australia. This is an independent foundation under Australian law with the same mission as Hartwig Medical Foundation.
Hartwig Medical Foundation Canada
Hartwig Medical Foundation Canada, the Canadian branch of Hartig Medical Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization focused on building software and infrastructure to support cancer genomics and treatment decision-making.
Our approach
Our mission is to improve cancer care. To achieve this, we focus on innovations in molecular diagnostics and collaborate with partners who share the same mission.
ANBI
Hartwig Medical Foundation has ANBI status and is a charity recognized by the Tax Authorities.
Policy
To be able to function as a leading scientific Next to excellent employees, a quality assurance system for the laboratory and bioinformatics is crucial. As is compliance to information security systems for the usage of privacy sensitive data. Protecting the privacy of patients and other stakeholders, resolving complaints and embracing suggestions for improvement are part of our quality system and quality culture.
Working for Hartwig Medical Foundation
At Hartwig Medical Foundation in Amsterdam a dedicated team of lab analysts, bioinformaticians and IT specialists is working on improving cancer treatments. We collaborate with academic institutions, hospitals and experts in the field and are using the latest technology.
Contact
Hartwig Medical Foundation
Science Park 408
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
It is important to unravel the DNA in rare types of cancer; 21% of patients with cancer have a rare form.