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The ‘Revalidatiefonds’ awarded a grant for a subproject of the COAD study to Prof. Rob Smeets and Laura Beckers of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. 

On 25 May 2016 Hester van der Kaaij successfully defended her PhD on The Juridical Act.

Both Flanders and Germany are considering tolling systems applicable to private vehicles using the Flemish respectively German roads.

Thanks to two new tests, pathogens can be detected more quickly and patients can be prescribed antibiotics sixteen hours sooner.

Second dutch scientist to win this prestigious diabetes research award

Dr Annemarie Koster (Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine) was installed by the Health Council of the Netherlands as a member of the committee that will develop the new Dutch physical activity guidelines on behalf of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport. 

On 13 May, NWO announced the winners of the 87 VIDI prizes of 800,000 euro. One of the winners is Bram Van Hofstraeten (Foundations and Methods of Law, Faculty of Law).

Sander Dekker, the Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, visited the Healthy Primary School of the Future in Parkstad on Monday 23 May.  He was interested in seeing the project in practice and hearing first-hand how the children experienced it.

Professor Ilja Arts, scientific director of the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), announced at the first MaCSBio Science day on 17 May that the institute would focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

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.