# Leiden University Medical Center

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## TL;DR

Leiden's university hospital, a cradle of therapeutic cancer vaccines and tumour immunology and the base for the Dutch TME rectal cancer trial.

## Summary

The LUMC's tumour immunology tradition runs from Cornelis Melief's synthetic long peptide HPV16 vaccine, developed with ISA Pharmaceuticals, to the immunology groups of Sjoerd van der Burg and Ferry Ossendorp, and Ton Schumacher and John Haanen of the Netherlands Cancer Institute hold Leiden professorships. Cornelis van de Velde's Dutch TME trial established total mesorectal excision with short-course radiotherapy as the standard for rectal cancer, and Judith Bovée's pathology group is a world reference for bone and soft tissue tumours. Leiden co-owns the Holland Proton Therapy Centre and runs a large haematology and transplant programme. The Leiden Oncology Center coordinates care with regional hospitals.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: LUMC; Leiden Oncology Center
- City: Leiden, NL
- Type: university
- Website: https://www.lumc.nl/en/

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University_Medical_Center
- Homepage: https://www.lumc.nl/en/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/), [Sarcomas (soft tissue, bone, GIST)](https://onco.cc/cancers/sarcoma/)
- fronts: [Immunotherapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/immunotherapy/), [Surgery & Interventional](https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/)
- technologies: [HPV & HBV vaccination](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/), [Immune checkpoint inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/checkpoint-inhibitor/), [Off-the-shelf cancer vaccines](https://onco.cc/technologies/shared-antigen-vaccine/), [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/)
- institutions: [Erasmus MC Cancer Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/erasmus-mc/), [Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI-AvL)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nki/)
- terms: [Neoantigen](https://onco.cc/terms/neoantigen/)
- people: [Carien L. Creutzberg](https://onco.cc/people/carien-creutzberg/), [Cornelis J. H. van de Velde](https://onco.cc/people/cornelis-van-de-velde/), [John Haanen](https://onco.cc/people/john-haanen/), [Martin Jan Schalij](https://onco.cc/people/martin-jan-schalij/), [Ton Schumacher](https://onco.cc/people/ton-schumacher/)
- trials: [RAINBO](https://onco.cc/trials/rainbo/)

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