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A committee of four Dutch and German professors gave the institutes very high marks for societal relevance, research quality and viability during an independent assessment.

In January of this year, 39 secondary school students from one German secondary school and five Dutch secondary schools in Limburg started TeenzCollege. On 28 March, the students presented their research results during a poster presentation. Afterwards they attended a festive official ceremony to which...

Recent results of a study conducted by researchers at Maastricht University provided no scientific evidence to support the general assumption that sugar is addictive and leads to weight gain.

Adipose tissue in the body may increase the likelihood of gaining weight after weight loss. The cells of the immune system, also known as white blood cells, play an important role as well.

Expertise Center ITEM has started a research project about cross-border internships in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. The research, commissioned by the Meuse-Rhine Euregion and EURES, will be carried out and led by ITEM's 'de-borderer' between March 2017 and July 2017.

On 24 March 2017 this prize was awarded to Nicole Verbiest - van Gurp, PhD candidate and GP trainee at the Department of Family Medicine, for her research proposal ‘Current practice of Dutch general practitioners in detecting and diagnosing atrial fibrillation; a case vignette study’.

Four clinics in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion will collaborate in the field of oncology with OncoCare (MUMC+ news).

RegMed XB is the new institute for regenerative medicine

In November 2016 Annerika Slok, postdoc at the Department of Family Medicine, finished her PhD about the development and evaluation of the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool.