The Research & Diagnostic Centre Adore (RDC ADORE) is part of Amsterdam UMC and consists of offices and laboratories. This six-storey high-tech building also contains a cleanroom: a conditioned, ultraclean environment with very high quality requirements which is used for research into cancer and neurological disorders.
Meeting place
The building invites users to exchange experiences and knowledge, with equipment and spaces being shared by oncological and neurological researchers. Patients, doctors and researchers will meet in the Atrium. These locations provide a setting for cross-pollination, making it possible to look beyond the boundaries of individual disorders, roles and specialisms.
The building is behind the academic hospital. The Atrium connects RDC ADORE with the adjacent Imaging Centre, which was voted care building of the year in 2020.
Cross-pollination
Research & Diagnostiek Centrum Adore is designed around the concept that oncologists and neurologists will look beyond their own discipline and work together on new treatments against cancer and brain diseases. They will do this by teaming up with SMEs, the pharmaceutical sector and knowledge institutions such as Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam. This is a bold new way of conducting medical scientific research. By bundling research involving cancer and brain diseases, and taking advantage of the similarities between these disciplines, it should be possible to make research breakthroughs more quickly. Cross-pollination between cancer researchers and neuroscientists should lead to new diagnostics and therapies that will be invaluable for those battling cancer or brain diseases. RDC ADORE will be a place where leading researchers feel at home and where collaboration is second nature.
Schedule
Construction of the Research & Diagnostics Centre Adore started in September 2022, after preparatory work in the spring of that year. The building was officially opened by Queen Máxima on 14 May 2025. The RDC ADORE is now in use. The researchers from the Cancer Center Amsterdam have moved to the new building. The existing accommodation along the A10, the blue-red ‘block box’, will be demolished. Parking spaces in front of the entrance to RDC ADORE have been replaced by a green design.
Realisation
- Architect: Atelier PRO (Research & Diagnostic Centre Adore) and Studio Hartzema (Atrium)
- Contractor: Construction consortium MedicomZes-Kuijpers
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