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Professor Philippe Lambin of Maastricht UMC+ and the Maastro Clinic has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

If COPD can be detected at an earlier stage in healthy people, this can improve treatment and may lead to lower direct health care costs.

Cardiologists from Maastricht UMC+ have discovered an important cause of a formerly often inexplicable cardiomyopathy.

The quality of life among people with dementia in a nursing home is just as high as for those still living at home.

On Friday 22 April 2016 at the invitation of Maastricht University, 40 cyclists toured part of the '40 of Limburg' route with Hennie Kuiper as their road captain.

The Supervisory Board of Maastricht University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. R.M. (Rianne) Letschert to Rector Magnificus of Maastricht University.

VitaK Innovation in Life Science, a Maastricht University spin-off company, has launched the Vita K Meter, the first non-invasive device for monitoring the risk of vitamin K insufficiency.

Maastricht University plans to support a large-scale project to improve medical education in Ethiopia. EP-NUFFIC/NICHE, an organisation that promotes international collaboration in the field of higher education, has earmarked half a million euros for this project. 

The purpose of the agreement is to lay out the principles for collaboration in the fields of research and education within the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) at Maastricht University (UM).

Clemens van Blitterswijk, professor of Complex Tissue Regeneration at Maastricht University, has been awarded the most prestigious European research grant for individual researchers: the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.