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Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam University Medical Center, often shortened to Amsterdam UMC, is a collective of two teaching hospitals in Amsterdam. Formed, in 2018, after the administrative merger of the city's two university medical centers: the Academic Medical Center and the VU University Medical Center.
The Academic Medical Center functioned as the University of Amsterdam's teaching hospital, while the VU University Medical Center acted as the teaching hospital for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Both medical centers are now known as Amsterdam UMC, location AMC and Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc respectively.
In 2025, Newsweek ranked Amsterdam UMC as the world's 31st best hospital and the best in the Netherlands.
The two university medical centers, administratively, merged on 7 June 2018. This means that both medical centers remain as independent legal bodies, however both executive boards are composed of the same five individuals. Including the Dean of the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Medicine and the Dean of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Faculty of Medicine. On 1 January 2024, the two hospitals completed a legal merger.
A logical conclusion of the merger is the spread of forms of health care, research and education across both locations. At Amsterdam UMC, location AMC health care will be concentrated around three themes: Women & Child, Emergency Medicine and Cardiovascular Care. While at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, the departments of Oncology, Neurology and Public Health will be concentrated.
Medical research in Amsterdam stretches back to the time of Dr. Nicoleas Tulp, the University of Amsterdam's first anatomist, whose work was captured in the Rembrandt painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. In 2023, Research at Amsterdam UMC is led by more than 440 professors and consists of eight research institutes:
Across these eight research institutes, researchers with a medical background work with researchers from other fields across both the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam. This level of collaboration is also supported by the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development.
In the three years from 2015 to 2018, Amsterdam UMC contributed to more than 22,000 scientific publications. The most of any university medical center in the Netherlands and the second highest in Europe, behind University College London. Amsterdam UMC research has also laid the groundwork for multiple patented therapies, including Nirsevimab, originally discovered by cell biologist Hergen Spits.
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Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam University Medical Center, often shortened to Amsterdam UMC, is a collective of two teaching hospitals in Amsterdam. Formed, in 2018, after the administrative merger of the city's two university medical centers: the Academic Medical Center and the VU University Medical Center.
The Academic Medical Center functioned as the University of Amsterdam's teaching hospital, while the VU University Medical Center acted as the teaching hospital for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Both medical centers are now known as Amsterdam UMC, location AMC and Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc respectively.
In 2025, Newsweek ranked Amsterdam UMC as the world's 31st best hospital and the best in the Netherlands.
The two university medical centers, administratively, merged on 7 June 2018. This means that both medical centers remain as independent legal bodies, however both executive boards are composed of the same five individuals. Including the Dean of the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Medicine and the Dean of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam's Faculty of Medicine. On 1 January 2024, the two hospitals completed a legal merger.
A logical conclusion of the merger is the spread of forms of health care, research and education across both locations. At Amsterdam UMC, location AMC health care will be concentrated around three themes: Women & Child, Emergency Medicine and Cardiovascular Care. While at Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, the departments of Oncology, Neurology and Public Health will be concentrated.
Medical research in Amsterdam stretches back to the time of Dr. Nicoleas Tulp, the University of Amsterdam's first anatomist, whose work was captured in the Rembrandt painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. In 2023, Research at Amsterdam UMC is led by more than 440 professors and consists of eight research institutes:
Across these eight research institutes, researchers with a medical background work with researchers from other fields across both the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam. This level of collaboration is also supported by the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development.
In the three years from 2015 to 2018, Amsterdam UMC contributed to more than 22,000 scientific publications. The most of any university medical center in the Netherlands and the second highest in Europe, behind University College London. Amsterdam UMC research has also laid the groundwork for multiple patented therapies, including Nirsevimab, originally discovered by cell biologist Hergen Spits.