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Andrea: Swimming went smoothly. During biking I had to be cautious because of the rain. The first two rounds of the mrathon I was okay, but during rounds three and four I had a hard time. Then, finally, the very last kilometers through the city centre, it was like I was growing wings, and all went well...

The insulin sensitivity of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is just as poor as that of patients with type 2 diabetes. Exercise, however, can help the patients to improve their insulin sensitivity, reduce the amount of fat in the liver and, effectively, pre-empt the development of...

John Penders (NUTRIM/CAPHRI) was awarded a Vidi-grant for his research project ‘Unwanted souvenirs’.

Maurice Zeegers has been Scientific Director of the CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care for six months now: “This is an organisation with motivated and very talented researchers.”

Dr. Elhaseen Elamin Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum (MUMC) / NUTRIM ontvangt de Career Development Grant voor zijn onderzoek waarin hij mini-darmen gaat kweken uit stamcellen van patiënten met de ziekte van Crohn.

The board of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University has appointed Professor Maurice Zeegers as the new scientific director of CAPHRI, the School for Public Health and Primary Care of Maastricht University.

Annemie Schols, professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases at Maastricht University and director of the School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), is the first recipient of the prestigious ERS COPD GOLD Medal from the European Respiratory Society (ERS).

Researchers at Maastricht University published promising new results in Nature Medicine to support the theory that people with type 2 diabetes would experience significant improvements through exposure to cooler temperatures.