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Vera Baadjou has won the Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award from the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA). Vera is engaged in research on prevention of physical complaints in music students. 

Bram Kroon accepts chair during inaugural lecture 'Medication alone is not enough' (MUMC+ news).

 

Maria Jansen, Professor of Population-Focussed Health Policy and programme leader of the Academic Collaborative Centre for Public Health Limburg, has been nominated for the province Limburg.

Damage to small blood vessels in prediabetes (mumc+ news).

People with impaired kidney function have a higher risk of developing memory problems and even dementia, according to an analytic study by researchers Kay Deckers and Sebastian Köhler. Both researchers work at Maastricht University's Alzheimer Centre Limburg (ACL).

Children of parents with a mental illness or substance abuse problems (abbreviated as COPMI and COSAP, respectively) have a high risk (50–66%) of developing the same problems. This has an impact on their health, wellbeing, social network and overall functioning.

Mike Gerards is currently working at The Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio). His project focuses on the identification and functional characterization of novel genes involved in mitochondria (more specifically in mtDNA replication) and screening these genes for mutations in patients.

Walking, strolling and standing more during the day is better for sugar regulation in diabetics than an hour of high-intensity exercise. 

Anke Langenfeld has received the Scientific Award for her poster ‘Development of a Self-administered Neck Mobility Assessment Tool (S-ROM-Neck) In Chronic Neck Pain Patients: A prospective cohort study’.