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Earlier this year Jos Kleinjans, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Maastricht University (UM), received the final word on a multi-year, multi-million-euro contribution to his brainchild, the Brightlands e-Infrastructure for Neurohealth (BReIN for short). This research institute will open...

Nina Bartelink defended her PhD dissertation October 30, 2019 at Maastricht University. She was awarded cum laude. Her thesis provides insight into the results of the Healthy Primary School project, an initiative to improve children’s health and health behaviours in Primary Schools in South-Limburg...

What is it like to live and work in Silicon Valley? Alumna Anna Karmann answers this question.‘‘The secret of Silicon Valley is the electrifying, unique environment.’’

Can she explain the second brain to children? For her discovery of the involvement of the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) in colorectal cancer, Veerle Melotte has been nominated for the Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs. That might give her the chance to share her research – and possibly get a foot in the door...

Ilaria Passarani defended her PhD dissertation October 8, 2019 at Maastricht University.

Interview wirh prof. Eddy Houwaart, after his official retirement, about the lessons medical history has to offer.

Ingrid Kremer (VHC), Dorijn Hertroijs (VHC) and Bram de Boer (ALTC research line) have been selected to join CAPHRI’s new ResearchTalent program.

We had the honour of being selected to represent Maastricht University at the annual Public Health Law seminar run by the Open Medical Institute in partnership with the Austrian-American Foundation and Maastricht University (academic partner) in Salzburg, Austria, over the last week.