Voermans is committed to a strong clinical center with extensive expertise on muscle diseases, mapping the natural course of these disorders and conducting studies with promising drugs in rare muscle diseases. All this in a worldwide network.
Voermans also works with companies on drug trials. This involves a lot of preparation. ‘For example, we figure out how best to measure the effect of a new drug’, Voermans says. 'In addition, patients are given a genetic test and we make sure that they start a study as fit as possible. For example, they receive lifestyle advice, and all available treatments are optimized, including rehabilitation, nocturnal ventilation and medications that relieve symptoms.'