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  • Defense Nina Bartelink cum laude

    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...

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  • Anna Karmann, alumna in Silicon Valley

    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.’’

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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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