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Professor Jan Smits will succeed Professor Dr. Hildegard Schneider as new dean of  the Faculty of Law on 1 December 2017.

The e-health application MyIBDcoach has resulted in a 50% reduction in the number of hospital admissions, fewer out-patient visits and better medication compliance in patients with chronic inflammatory bowel conditions such as Crohn’s disease (MUMC+ news).

The Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations has asked ITEM to research the cross-border mobility of specialized nurses in some Dutch health care institutions. The goal of the research is to find out about the status and influence of quality standards and the actors involved, as well as...

Connor Deacon-Price is a recently graduated student at Maastricht Science Programme (MSP) and to be presenting his research in the battle against cancer at a mainstream high-level conference is extremely remarkable

At the beginning of July an interdisciplinary team of PREMIUM students organised a workshop concluding their UM-Macimide PREMIUM project - financed by Macimide, the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration and Development - was held.

 

Kiran Klaus Patel’s The New Deal: A Global History has won the prestigious Bentley Book Prize 2017.

On 1 July, Dr. Franziska Gassmann was appointed professor in Social Protection and Development at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance (MGSoG), a division of UNU-MERIT at Maastricht University.

A European transnational consortium led by Maastricht University (UM) will spend the next four years developing innovative bone implants.

These questions will be answered in four consortia that have been awarded a NWO-Complexity grant. MaCSBio is involved in two of these consortia and will carry out research regarding complex systems in the field of health and nutrition.