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The quality of life among people with dementia in a nursing home is just as high as for those still living at home.

The largest entrepreneurship event of its kind in the Netherlands is opening its doors again on 9-12 May: the Maastricht Entrepreneurship Week (MeWeek). 

Miriam Kullmann is an assistant professor in Labour Law at the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands) and researcher at Leiden University (The Netherlands) within the Labour Law Department.

On 21 April 2016 ZonMw installed a new Committee Fostering Responsible Research Practices.

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 functions as an inducer of neuronal differentiation.

The Supervisory Board of Maastricht University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. R.M. (Rianne) Letschert to Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University.

On Friday 22 April 2016 at the invitation of Maastricht University, 40 cyclists toured part of the '40 of Limburg' route with Hennie Kuiper as their road captain.

M-CEL member Professor Lisa Waddington, in collaboration with Dr. Andrea Broderick, has written a report entitled Disability law and reasonable accommodation beyond employment, A legal analysis of the situation in EU Member States.

VitaK Innovation in Life Science, a Maastricht University spin-off company, has launched the Vita K Meter, the first non-invasive device for monitoring the risk of vitamin K insufficiency.

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.