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When breast cancer has spread to lymph nodes in the armpit, extensive imaging studies are performed and tumour characteristics are determined prior to surgical removal. Research initiated at Maastricht UMC+ aims to clarify the extent to which an accurate assessment can be made of possible responses...

Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo is welcoming a new company this fall: InnerBuddies. This first Maastricht University spin-off is setting up shop at the campus with 27-year-old Jella Theeuwen at the helm as CEO.

Ensure that education in Mozambique can continue.

This year, the MAASTRO clinic in Maastricht is starting to use proton therapy - the promising new form of radiation treatment for cancer. The ‘what and why’ are no longer in question. Irradiation with protons instead of with photons can make a big difference for some types of cancer. The biggest...

Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus is proud to present great results and steady growth for the fifth year in a row. The number of established companies, organisations and spin-offs has experienced substantial growth, and the number of jobs at the Campus has risen to a whopping 9,553.

Professors Wynand Wijnen and Riet Drop are being posthumously honoured through the naming of a new classroom after each of them.

The KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) has appointed prof. dr. Anita Jansen, full professor of experimental clinical psychology and dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, as a member of the Academy.

Maastricht UMC+ is to start an extensive research project on the treatment and prevention of arthrosis (MUMC+ news).  

Researchers at the Alzheimer's Centre Limburg, Maastricht University, and Maastricht UMC+ developed an online tool for caregivers (mumc+ news).

Certain types of chemotherapy cause a greater degree of nerve damage than was previously thought (PhD conferral Tonneke Beijers).