News

  • Special collaboration to unravel genetic backgrounds of cardiovascular disease (News Maastricht UMC+).


     

  • On 30 May the new Student portal went online. This one-stop location for accessing and managing their personal university information was developed in close collaboration with students.

  • This year, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility/ ITEM will start investigating the effects of certain national and European laws and regulations for border regions.

  • Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.

  • Five UM students from the Dutch Law master’s programme were crowned the winners of the 2016 moot court competition on 18 May, organised by VAR (Vereniging voor bestuursrecht).

  • Interfaculty institute for systems biology research will focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

  • Prof. dr. mr. Kid Schwarz in Magna Charta - Leading men in ondernemingsrecht

  • MaCSBio's director of education Bert Smeets has been interviewed for the Dutch serie: 'Research Loont' (translation: 'Research pays off') about the unraveling of genetic causes of hereditary metabolic disease among children.

  • Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are generated from neural stem cells and progenitor cells which takes place continuously throughout our life. In this work the interdisciplinary team with Gökhan Ertaylan of MaCSBio has been collaborating, uncovers a function for Prox1 gene that...

  • Martha Ingola, who is in her final year of her Bachelor biology and medical laboratory research and an intern at the M4I division of Imaging Mass Spectrometry, was awarded a poster prize.