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The Maastricht heart failure research team, led by Professor Stephane Heymans

From 20-22 May 2016, the Maastricht version of the ‘Dutch Hacking Health’ was organised by Maastricht UMC+. This Hacking Health weekend was primarily aimed at developing digital innovations in healthcare.

On 25 May 2016 Hester van der Kaaij successfully defended her PhD on The Juridical Act.

Both Flanders and Germany are considering tolling systems applicable to private vehicles using the Flemish respectively German roads.

The ‘Revalidatiefonds’ awarded a grant for a subproject of the COAD study to Prof. Rob Smeets and Laura Beckers of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. 

Thanks to two new tests, pathogens can be detected more quickly and patients can be prescribed antibiotics sixteen hours sooner.

Second dutch scientist to win this prestigious diabetes research award

Sander Dekker, the Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, visited the Healthy Primary School of the Future in Parkstad on Monday 23 May.  He was interested in seeing the project in practice and hearing first-hand how the children experienced it.

On 13 May, NWO announced the winners of the 87 VIDI prizes of 800,000 euro. One of the winners is Bram Van Hofstraeten (Foundations and Methods of Law, Faculty of Law).

Professor Ilja Arts, scientific director of the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), announced at the first MaCSBio Science day on 17 May that the institute would focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.