• Department of Neuroscience

    Erasmus MC

  • Wide range of techniques and research questions

    From molecules to circuits and disease mechanisms

Research Objectives

Our research is dedicated to Plasticity and Dynamics of Sensori-Motor Systems and Cognitive Systems in health and disease. We investigate those at the physiological, anatomical, behavioral and molecular level in 24 research groups.

Collaborations

The Department of Neuroscience of Erasmus Medical University Center, Rotterdam, is embedded in the dynamic, internationally competitive research community of over 40 biomedical research labs, encompassing the departments of: Bioinformatics, Molecular Genetics, Clinical Genetics, Psychiatry and Developmental Biology. We collaborate with universities and institutes at a national and international level and host fruitful relationships with our industry partners.

Academic excellence

The main objective of the two-year Research Master’s Program in Neuroscience is to teach and to provide training for talented students in the rapidly expanding field of neuroscience. The program prepares students for future fundamental research in various medical fields in which neuroscience is increasingly important. The program combines a broad range of tutorials and workshops in neuro-anatomy, neurophysiology, molecular biology, psychology and psychiatry with an extensive period of research training.

Department of Neuroscience is placed in the Research Tower of the Erasmus Medical Center (Ee building). The Department Chair is Prof. Dr. Chris de Zeeuw.

Recent Publications

The department of Neuroscience strives to publish Open Access. Accepted versions of most published papers can be found in the Erasmus University institutional repository repub.eur.nl

VIEW PUBLICATIONS

Influenza A virus infection impairs neuronal activity in human iPSC-derived NGN2 neural co-cultures.

Benavides FFW, Kempff ALV, Smeenk H, Lendemeijer B, Lavrijsen M, Slotman JA, Kushner SA, de Vrij FMS, Bauer L, van Riel D
in Acta neuropathologica communications 2026

Energetic cost of weight shifting and asymmetric weight-bearing during standing in humans.

in Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) 2026

[Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE plus long-acting octreotide in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced, grade 2-3, gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: preplanned and post-hoc efficacy analyses from the randomised, phase 3 NETTER-2 trial.

Ferone D, Pavel M, Herrmann K, Kunz PL, Myrehaug S, Halperin D, Chasen B, Capdevila J, García-Burillo A, Tafuto S, Lastoria S, Oh DY, Yoo C, Falk S, Halfdanarson TR, Sansovini M, Gerard L, Deshayes E, Filice A, Folitar I, Zhang Y, de Herder WW, Singh S
in EClinicalMedicine 2026

Dopaminergic control of retinal oscillations driving infantile nystagmus",

Sermet BS@, Kamermans W, Winkelman B, De Zeeuw CI, Kamermans M,
in PNAS 2026

Dopaminergic control of retinal oscillations driving infantile nystagmus",

Sermet BS@, Kamermans W, Winkelman B, De Zeeuw CI, Kamermans M,
in PNAS 2026