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In the upcoming months, we’ll share tips on Instagram for our students on how to live a healthier life. Not just a random collection, but tips based on actual research happening at our faculty. The brains behind this idea are Lieve Vonken and Gido Metz, PhD candidates at CAPHRI, the Care and Public Health Research Institute and researchers at the Department of Health Promotion.

Maastricht University students have won the Dutch final of the student competition Ecotrophelia, a drinking vinegar based on apple cider vinegar, fruit and herbs.

The Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (ECoE), a leading research institution based in Limassol (Cyprus) received funding under the Twinning Bottom-Up scheme of the EC WIDERA program for the innovative REVITALISER project. The REVITALISER project, titled “Preventive Protection of Archaeological Sites in the EMMENA Region,” contributes to the fight against illegal excavations and protect cultural heritage using remote sensing, AI, and space-born technologies. The ECoE will work closely with the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC), Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), and Maastricht University (UM). 

First-generation non-Western immigrant women more competitive than Dutch women. This and more is shown in research by Dr. Özge Gökdemir and Prof. Devrim Dumludağ of Maastricht University. 

Mayke Oosterloo is a movement disorders neurologist at Maastricht UMC+ and a researcher at the MHeNs institute of Maastricht University. In the outpatient clinic and various nursing homes in Limburg, she guides and treats patients (and their loved ones) with Huntington's disease. 

The competition is open to all students registered for a LLM programme in Maastricht who submits their thesis in the academic year 2023-2024.

Ageing well isn’t just about physique. It also means being aware of a healthy brain. To prevent dementia, Martin van Boxtel and his colleagues from ‘Alzheimer Centrum Limburg’ founded the Maastricht Ageing Study (MAAS) 30 years ago. MAAS kept track of 2043 people over 25 years in a longitudinal study to collect data for dementia research. The final follow-up was completed in 2023, a year before Martin’s retirement. In honour of his work, we asked Martin about his proudest moments during his career.

On 18 and 19 June 2024, MORSE hosted the 4th annual MORSE PhD Workshop. 
All PhDs candidates were invited to present the work related to the themes of the MORSE spearhead initiative, at any stage of development, and they received helpful and interesting feedback from peers and supervisors. 
MORSE members, whether or not they were supervising any of the PhD candidates presenting, were invited too, to attend and act as discussants for the presentations.

QueerCon Maastricht brings together an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and international group of scholars on 1 and 2 July in order to advance LGBTQIA+ knowledge.  It is also an artistic, musical and social celebration of Limburg’s queer community and culture. 

Can urine be used to detect renal cell carcinoma? The current approach in the case of small renal masses is in most cases a precautionary partial or complete removal of the kidney, without knowing whether the mass is benign or malignant. Molecular epidemiologist Kim Smits is working at MUMC+ on a non-invasive biomarker test that can distinguish benign renal masses from renal cancer.