Hybrid ablation: a team operation with better outcomes
Maastricht-developed technique serious option for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation

Maastricht-developed technique serious option for patients with persistent atrial fibrillation
Gera Nagelhout is, in many respects, not a typical professor. She was the first in her family to attend university, and at the age of 34 was appointed endowed professor of Health and Wellbeing of People with a Lower Socioeconomic Position.
A large-scale research consortium for Timely, Accurate and Personalized diagnosis of dementia (TAP-dementia) launches today. Researchers throughout the Netherlands collaborate to improve the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.
They study at UM, do their utmost to get their degree, but also have another big ambition: they want to reach the top in their sport. Young people who set everything aside to train hard alongside their studies and participate in high-level competitions. Real go-getters, in other words. What does it...
Wetenschapper Sabine van Rijt, verbonden aan het MERLN-instituut van Universiteit Maastricht, krijgt een prestigieuze Europese subsidie van 2 miljoen euro voor haar onderzoeksproject Nano4Bone. De ERC Consolidator Grant heeft een looptijd van 5 jaar.
Wetenschappers van onder andere Universiteit Maastricht (UM) en het RIVM hebben voor het eerst systematisch uitgezocht welke psychofarmaca zoal voorkomen in het oppervlaktewater van Nederland. Met name de concentraties van de middelen oxazepam en carbamazepine blijken dusdanig hoog, dat risico’s...
Tijdens zijn afscheidscollege op 20 januari heeft Professor of Education Cees van der Vleuten de Tanspenning (Dr. J. G. H. Tanspenning) ontvangen, de hoogste onderscheiding van de UM voor degenen die een belangrijke bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de ontwikkeling van de universiteit.
Children born prematurely often have problems with their lungs. Can stem cells help repair their damaged lungs? Biologist Tim Wolfs is researching it with support from Longfonds (Lung Fund).
On January 25, the NUTRIM Clinical Research Unit (CRU), where patient-related research on nutrition and metabolism takes place, was officially opened at Maastricht UMC+.
For her achievements in the field of PGT, Prof. Christine de Die was recently named an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.