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In 2016, Sjim Romme and Matthijs Bosveld received the UM Student Prize. They are taking a gap year from their studies in 2017/18 so they can get one step closer to their dream: people-focused healthcare in which the symptoms of patients play a central role through people-focused medical education.

During the BIOMEDICA Life Sciences Summit, which took place on 9-10 May in Eindhoven (NL), the Ralf Raue Innovation Award for Life Sciences 2017 was awarded to the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMBIM).

This week, Maastricht University was featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a series about exceptional universities. Amongst other people, the newspaper talked to Professor Michel Dumontier, Professor Hildegard Schneider and Martin Paul, UM’s president.

De Academische Werkplaats Duurzame Zorg werkt mee aan een innovatief project van zorggroep Huisartsenzorg Drenthe (HZD).

Workshop on Oversight and resources of partially and fully self-financed agencies

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.

Newspaper de Observant has published an interview with Associate Professor Yvonne van der Meer to bust the myths surrounding (bio)plastic

Researchers at the MERLN Institute for regenerative medicine launched a new worldwide research database for biomaterials, called the Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics (cBiT). It is their goal to quickly expand cBiT with new biomaterial data, generated not only in MERLN but also in institutions all over the world. It is for the first time that such a valuable combination of data is available for download in one central location.

After a wonderful career in science, 30 years of which were at Maastricht University, Prof. Wiebe Eco Bijker will retire on 12 May.