Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to set up a scientific research team in the coming years for studies on bioprinted models of a human kidney and on female guest workers from...
Julien was admitted at the last second for the Medicine bachelor. A turning point that led him to research perihilar cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and specific type of bile duct cancer at MUMC+.
That Stephan Smeekes became a professor of econometrics at the age of 41 is not to say this path is open to anyone with a disability. “Everybody’s different, and so is every disability,” he says. He doesn’t see himself as an ambassador for disabled academics. “But if my story inspires others, that’s a...
On 22 November 2024, the Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM) hosted the workshop ‘Collaborative Ecologies for Classical Music’ together with the Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Center (SPARC).
For the second time in a row, a UM team has managed to win a gold medal in the prestigious iGEM (International Genetic Engineered Machine) competition in synthetic biology.