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  • “If there is any proof needed that European Public Health is an important field, then the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 provides it.” As Professor of European Public Health and head of the Department of International Health at Maastricht University, Helmut Brand is closely connected to the unique...

  • Can you reduce the room temperature of your home and still feel comfortable? Can you keep up the habit of doing fewer loads of laundry? Yes and yes, according to the findings of the ENERGISE project, which challenged 300 households in eight countries to reduce their energy consumption.

  • Due to an acute shortage of organ donors, hundreds of people die each year in the Netherlands and Belgium alone. One large group of potential donors may not even be aware that they can donate their organs: people who opt for euthanasia. For his PhD research, Jan Bollen studied the issue of organ...

  • Thanks to a heart transplant, Rogier Veltrop survived a life-threatening illness. The Maastricht University researcher wants to make the most of his ‘bonus years’ by contributing to a new treatment for cardiovascular disease.

  • To support this research on how brain cells recover from injury and other research, Marcel Aries, neurologist and intensivist at the Maastricht UMC+, founded the Brain Battle Fund.