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At M4i, Dr Mudita Vats is looking at everything that is making your food look and taste like it does. With the help of Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) she can pinpoint exactly where the flavor is located, but also where contaminants such as microplastics are accumulating.

How do you make the tiniest cells visible? At the Microscopy CORE Lab. Kèvin Knoops leads this research platform for light and electron microscopy.

Driven by curiosity, assistant professor Birol Cabukusta (M4I) explores how cells adapt and function, focusing on the role of lipids.

Professor Ron Heeren, distinguished university professor at Maastricht University (UM) and director of the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4i), was appointed as a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Thursday 11 December.

Eleven consortia from various scientific disciplines are set to launch projects of great value to science. The Dutch government is making a total of €197 million available for this purpose. Scientists from Maastricht University (UM) are closely involved in seven of the eleven projects.

In 2018, Anjusha Mathew moved from India to Maastricht to begin her PhD. Seven years later, she is an assistant professor at the M4i research institute, part of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences. Recently, she was thrilled to receive a major grant for her research, in which she links...

Michiel Vandenbosch works in mass spectrometry: identifying the composition of a substance based on the weight of its molecules.

The research institutes M4I and MERLN, both part of Maastricht University (UM), are to become partners in a new national collaboration as of 1 January 2025. The Nijmegen-based laser and magnet lab HFML-FELIX will become an NWO Institute under the umbrella of the Foundation for Dutch Scientific Research...

This summer, the first students finished their master’s programme in Imaging Engineering. They appreciate the opportunity to be involved in this world-wide unique programme that combines science and technology in imaging. Their secret to success is chocolate.

Scientists at the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Institute (M4I) have developed an ‘intelligent surgery knife’, or iKnife. The European subsidy programme Interreg Flanders-Netherlands has made more than two million euros available for the further development of this technology.