Annemie Schols, Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases, has been appointed as the new dean of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML). She will begin her first four-year appointment on 1 June 2020.
The affordability of cigarettes in the Netherlands remained virtually unchanged between 2010 and 2020. This has emerged from research by Maastricht University (UM), and makes it clear that the excise duty increases have been insufficient to make smoking less affordable.
Dirk Ruwaard, voorzitter van het Kennisplatform de Juiste Zorg op de Juiste Plek (JZOJP), heeft 24 juni 2020 de Kennisagenda 'Zorg op de juiste plek' aan het Ministerie van VWS aangeboden.
Afgelopen juni hield Marjolein Smidt haar oratie naar aanleiding van haar benoeming tot hoogleraar in 2020. De leerstoel die zij bekleedt is: Oncologische chirurgie en mamma chirurgie (borstchirurgie) in het bijzonder. Het onderzoek dat ze doet is echter breder dan dat. Ze houdt zich ook bezig met...
Since the start of the corona pandemic in March 2020, the use of general practitioner care by patients due to asthma or COPD has been persistently lower than in 2019, the year before the corona pandemic.
Hilde Verbeek, associate professor in the Department of Health Services Research at Maastricht University/CAPHRI will join The Young Academy, a group of innovative scientists and scholars, in 2020. Verbeek is the coordinator of the Academic Collaborative Centre on Care for Older People.
The EU ban on menthol cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco introduced in May 2020 led menthol smokers to be more likely to try to quit smoking and to be successful in quitting compared to non-menthol smokers. At the same time, a third of menthol smokers say they still smoke menthol cigarettes...
Tim Welting and Paul Willems were both appointed professors in 2020. Quietly, as they have not yet been able to celebrate their inaugurations. After all, you can’t throw a party during a pandemic. But what you can do is give an online interview. Here, they talk about their work, their plans, and...
In June this year, Marjolein Smidt held her oration following her appointment as professor in 2020. She holds a chair at Maastricht University in oncological surgery, with a focus on mammary surgery (breast surgery). However, the research she carries out is much broader than that. Marjolein also...
Drie miljoen voor onderzoek naar in vitro-niermodellen door MERLN
