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Since its recent start, a study on rewards for smoking cessation by the department of Family Medicine has caught a lot of attention in the national media. 

Last May Prof. Ruud Kempen (Department of Health Services Research) was appointed as the President of the Dutch Society of Gerontology (NVG-KNOWS).

Special collaboration to unravel genetic backgrounds of cardiovascular disease (News Maastricht UMC+).


 

Prof. Ruud Kempen and Prof Jos Schols were installed by the Health Council of the Netherlands as members of the committee that will develop recommendations for the Ministry of Health with respect to the research agenda and knowledge infrastructure in the area of disability and self-management in old...

On 25 May 2016 at the yearly Deans and Directors of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) Retreat at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Katarzyna (Kasia) Czabanowska was voted an ASPHER President Elect. 

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

The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, visited the project Healthy Elementary School of the Future in Parkstad.

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.

More information on the current research activities of Sergio Carrera

On Friday the 15th of April, the Maastricht University team composed of Katharina Wende, Eve Meurgey, Lucile Fleuret and Jolien Timmermans was awarded the semi-finalist price at the All-European Finals of the European Law Moot Court.