The Translational Data Science (TDS) Lab is headed by Prof.dr. Marco Spruit and is primarily located at the Health Campus The Hague within the LUMC department on the third floor, but also has a BioScience Park Leiden office in the Gorlaeus building on the second floor. We are an energetic and innovating team with an AI mindset that participates in many Dutch and European research projects and is actively involved in developing and teaching novel AI and machine learning course modules throughout the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).
The TDS Lab's mission is to connect practical problems in healthcare practices to fundamental challenges in data science and to subsequently address both simultaneously. This is our encompassing Translational Data Science (TDS) research theme, which bridges the best of both worlds. Pasteur's Quadrant in the figure below visualises our drive to achieve a better fundamental understanding of the world around us through data science innovations by being societally inspired, demand-driven and solution-oriented.
Translational data science in Pasteur's Quadrant (on the left) combines basic data science understanding with applied data science use considerations.