News

The wholesale removal of armpit lymph nodes (axillary lymph node dissection) in women with recurring breast cancer turns out to be unnecessary in many cases (MUMC+ news).

The 500th European Research Council (ERC) grant in the Netherlands has been awarded on June 16th to Valentina Mazzucato, Professor of Globalization and Development from Maastricht University.

Foundation for the future: epilepsy education (inaugural lecture Marian Majoie, press release Kempenhaeghe)

Medical and social challenges faced by adolescents and young adults with chronic epilepsy during the transition from childhood to adulthood (PhD thesis Rianne Geerlings, news Kempenhaege).

PhD candidate's discovery may be a step in the struggle against overweight and obesity (MUMC+ News).

A team of researchers at the Maastricht School of Business and Economics (SBE) won the Wetenschapsprijs 2016 (Science Award 2016) by MOA, the Center for Information Based Decision Making & Marketing Research.

Two Maastricht researchers recently won prestigious awards at the world's biggest heart failure conference, Heart Failure 2016, organised by the European Society of Cardiology.

In his inaugural address, Marko Jelicic stated that most of the perpetrators who claim they do not remember the crimes they committed are not telling the truth. He bases this finding on recent neuropsychological research on the role of the hippocampus, the area of the brain involved in storing...

Researchers at Maastricht UMC+ used contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to demonstrate a link between blood-brain barrier leakage and Alzheimer's disease.

This year, the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility/ ITEM will start investigating the effects of certain national and European laws and regulations for border regions.