Dr Annemarie Koster (Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine) was installed by the Health Council of the Netherlands as a member of the committee that will develop the new Dutch physical activity guidelines on behalf of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport.
Interfaculty institute for systems biology research will focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.
Dean FHML will head up the MRI scanner lab
Five UM students from the Dutch Law master’s programme were crowned the winners of the 2016 moot court competition on 18 May, organised by VAR (Vereniging voor bestuursrecht).
Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.
KNAW has appointed sixteen new members, two of which are two UM professors: Karin Bijsterveld and André Klip.
The TERMIS-EU Council and the TERMIS-EU Awards Committee have awarded Dr. Lorenzo Moroni with the TERMIS-EU Young Scientist Award 2016.
John Penders (NUTRIM/CAPHRI) was awarded a Vidi-grant for his research project ‘Unwanted souvenirs’.
Jany Rademakers, endowed professor of Health Literacy and Patient Participation: “Not all patients can assume an active role.”
At EDLAB, we're making Maastricht University more active with our Education That Moves You project. By encouraging you to stand up during tutorials, we aim to make your learning experience more dynamic, enhance your concentration, and stimulate creative thinking.