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Valery Lemmens (GROW) conducts research on cancer, prevention, and how society is designed for making unhealthy choices.

Two Maastricht University professors are to receive the most prestigious European research grant for individual researchers: an ERC Advanced Grant, worth over €2.5 million. They are Lorenzo Moroni (MERLN) and Alexander Sack (FPN).

Ivan Huijnen (CAPHRI) aims to shift from the biomedical 'disorder-focused' thinking to an integral view on healthcare.

In this video, Stefan Giselbrecht (MERLN) explains how he creates mini thyroids to examine which substances may impact our health.

It has long been known that in some psychiatric disorders certain parts of the brain show slight abnormalities. However, it was unclear whether these brain changes are caused by the illness itself, by medication, or by smoking. In a recent study, scientists at Maastricht University and Amsterdam UMC...

Loes van Bokhoven (CAPHRI) aims to improve care in GP practices and contribute to the personnel challenges in the region.

As of 1 July 2025, Professor Anique de Bruin will take on the role of Scientific Director of the School of Health Professions Education (SHE)

Is improving healthcare only a task for our healthcare and academic staff? At first glance, you would say so. But sometimes there are colleagues within our health faculty who experience care themselves, and feel an urge to contribute to it from a patient perspective. You find this quality in Diana...

Yara Sievers is a PhD candidate at CAPHRI and conducts research on sun protection behaviour in the Netherlands.

Paul Wieringa (MERLN) works on innovative models to study endometriosis and the fallopian tube.