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  • Gut thoughts and feelings

    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...

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  • Defense Ilaria Passarani

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

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  • Lessons from medical history

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

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  • Open medical institute public health law seminar 2019

    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. 

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  • Liberated from the insulin syringe

    Almost 150,000 people in the Netherlands suffer from type 1 diabetes. Aart van Apeldoorn, diabetes researcher at the Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine (MERLN), hopes to do away with the insulin syringe by means of an implant known as the ‘tea bag’

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  • King visits Blue Care pioneer site in Maastricht

    King Willem-Alexander and Minister Bruins for healthcare and Sport made an unexpected visit to the initiatives of the Blue Care pioneer site in Maastricht on 4 September. 

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  • Delegation of Chinese scientists visit Maastricht University

    The Department of Health, Ethics and Society at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences organses the visit of six senior scientists from the China National Environmental Monitoring Centre (CNEMC) to Maastricht University.

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