erasmus mc is the new name for the university medical centre in rotterdam, which is a merger of the faculty of medicine and health sciences and the university hospital rotterdam (dijkzigt, sophia, daniel den hoed clinic). the biomedical cluster plays a leading role in the field of analysis of role of individual genes playing role in diseases. the forensic molecular biology department works together with the netherlands forensic institute (nfi). major long-term genetic epidemiological studies among the elderly and children are erasmus rotterdam health for the elderly (ergo) and generation r respectively.