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  • Golden combination of commerce and science

    The success of the master’s programme in Health Food Innovation Management was one of the critical factors in whether or not to establish a Maastricht University campus in Venlo. The graduation of the sixth class puts an end to any possible doubt. “We’re sticking around; we’ve proven that we have a...

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  • Students a nuisance? Not during exam week

     Maastricht University president Martin Paul and Maastricht’s mayor, Annemarie Penn-te Strake accompanied the enforcement squad so they could see with their own eyes the situation regarding nuisance caused by student tenants.

    Martin Paul in Maastricht
  • Prof. Van Marken Lichtenbelt nominated for Huibregtsen Prize

    Van Marken Lichtenbelt’s discovery of brown adipose tissue in adults in 2009 led to the research of ways to activate and increase brown adipose tissue. On 9 October 2017 foreman of the jury José van Dijck (president KNAW) will announce the winner of the Huibregsten Prize during the Night of Science...

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  • 'We are creating the Google Maps of tissue'

    Researchers at Maastricht University (UM) recently succeeded in visualising dynamic metabolic changes using mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) through amino acid conversion in the liver. This is the first time scientists have been able to identify the dynamics of biochemical processes in living tissue...

    Google maps for human tissue
  • Cancer and work: a challenging combo

    Insights from scientific research into both sustainable employability as well as cancer and work were at the heart of the symposium ‘Good employment practice: healthy personnel policy and dealing with employees with cancer’, which took place on Friday, 9 June at Maastricht University.

    Symposium Cancer and Work