The researchers from Andre Dekker's team have long been seen as the experts in the field of data in healthcare, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and federated deep learning in the Netherlands, and have put themselves on the global data map.
Rheumatoid arthritis patients with favourable health literacy skills experience less disease burden and have better access to medications than patients with lower health literacy skills.
She was the first woman in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be appointed Legal Adviser, the chief civil servant in its International Law department. She relished negotiating between parties at a global level. Now she serves as a neutral arbiter in another international legal setting, as a...
The signatories of the Dutch Transparency Agreement raise awareness on the major consequences of an abrupt ban on all animals for research purposes, as petitioned by the European Commission (EC). They plea for acceleration of the current route to alternative testing, instead of a sudden ban.
Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own insulin-producing cells, located in the islets of Langerhans, are destroyed by the body itself. Instead of continuous insulin injections, patients have the option of clinical islet transplantation. This involves placing donor islets in...
A breakthrough in cultured meat research-animal component free production
The second plenary session of the Benelux Parliament took place on June 16 and 17 in the Maastricht County Hall. A delegation of parliamentarians from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, spoke, among other things, extensively about the topic of cross-border drug crime. ITEM researcher Math...
Clinical epidemiologist and post-doctoral researcher Frits van Osch studied Epidemiology because of its strong focus on research methodology. Frits is excited to work with statistics, data and patterns at VieCuri Medical Centre and to pass on his knowledge to FHML students as a tutor.
Over one and a half million for BePrepared consortium
A consortium (BePrepared) of 12 universities, including Maastricht University (Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience), TNO, Pharos, Trimbos Institute and RIVM has received 1.6 million euros from...
Prof. Dr. René van der Hulst has been appointed medical director of the Maastricht UMC+ Comprehensive Cancer Center (MCCC) as of July 1st, 2023. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Bernd Kremer. Together with managing director Milenka van Kempen and the management of research school GROW he will continue to...