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Dominik Linz (CARIM) talks about arrhythmias and the upcoming Pulse Day, for which he hopes to collect more than 20,000 digital pulses.

The Limburg jury of the Vrouw in de Media Award has selected UM professor Gera Nagelhout (CAPHRI) as a nominee for the Vrouw in de Media Award 2025. The award highlights women who, over the past year, have been notably and impactfully visible in the media as experts.

Heated tobacco products (HTPs) are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, according to recent research by Maastricht University and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Nevertheless, these products are often marketed as less harmful.

How do cancers develop, how do they grow and how does therapy resistance arise? Professor Kasper Rouschop aims to answer these questions.

Amaury Monard uses the Maastricht Flow Chamber to visualise blood clotting to see more precisely where things go wrong in patients.

Theo de Kok, Houman Kahroba and Julian Krauskopf from the department of Translational Genomics have been awarded an NWO-XS grant for their project "Trojan Horses in the Womb: Small Extracellular Vesicles as Carriers of Air Pollution to the Fetal Brain."

Borbála Hunyadi (MHeNs) looks for recognisable patterns in brain signals to help neurologists diagnose brain diseases.

Prof. dr. Stef Kremers, vice-dean at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, is part of the academic community working to reduce smoking. He obtained his PhD researching smoking initiation during a time when the whole concept of smoking prevention was still in its early stages.

Marieke Spreeuwenberg, professor (CAPHRI), works on the future of human-centered digital care.