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The draft design for the Tapijn area will be presented to Maastricht residents on Monday 1 February (starting at 19.30 in Brasserie Tapijn).

Up until now, there was no clear overview of the comparability of processes involved in considering to take up a position across the national border in a neighboring country nor is there an comparable overview of annual volumes of workers who were successfully placed across the border.

On Monday 18 January, RWTH Aachen University and Maastricht University signed a contract to formalise their structural collaboration in the Aachen Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus.

Preeclampsia could be reduced by more than a quarter if obstetricians and gynaecologists were to advise all pregnant women to take a calcium supplement during pregnancy.

Rector Magnificus Luc Soete of Maastricht University, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.

Using a wound swab (similar to a cotton swab) to determine whether a chronic wound has become infected is a waste of both time and money. This was the conclusion drawn by geriatric specialist Armand Rondas in his dissertation for which he hopes to obtain his doctoral degree on 22 January at...

Researchers at Maastricht University's R&D Group VitaK and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) discovered two new mutations in the enzyme GGCX, which activates coagulation factors in the blood. 

On Sunday, 17 January 2016, MCEL member dr. Anniek de Ruijter was a guest in ‘Buitenhof', a Dutch national television programme to speak with Yasmine Allas about the debate after the terrible sexual violence that took place in Keulen. The Programme is in Dutch. 

Researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center (Maastricht, Netherlands), Máxima Medical Center (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Athersys Inc. (Cleveland, USA) have shown that stem cell therapy can prevent brain damage in premature infants.

Call for papers – Extension of Deadline and Reminder! The deadline for the submission of papers is moved to 31 january 2016!