Associated staff and Partnerships
Systems biology is by definition a collaborative effort, characterized by an iterative process of biology driving technology driving computation. MaCSBio consists of an international, dynamic research community with a highly interdisciplinary character.
Associate members
Although having their primary position with another institute than MaCSBio, associate members are actively taking part in MaCSBio research. They are affiliated to other departments of Maastricht University or to universities elswhere in the Netherlands or Europe. Associate members collaborate in projects with MaCSBio members, apply jointly for research funding, and have access to the facilities provided by MaCSBio. An associate membership is an ideal way to become involved in MaCSBio research.
Prof. Peter Jansen
Honorary professor
plm.jansen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Become an associate member and collaborate in projects with MaCSBio members, apply jointly for research funding, and have access to the facilities provided by MaCSBio.
Academic Partnerships
MaCSBio partners share data, expertise, technology or their lab-infrastructure with MaCSBio. Partners are very welcome to participate in MaCSBio’s scientific meetings or invite MaCSBio members to join their meetings. Via its academic partnerships MaCSBio has access to:
- imaging infrastructure (Scannexus )
- genome sequencing, metabolic research facilities (NUTRIM/Metabolic Research Unit Maastricht (MRUM) )
- bioinformatics and data sciences (BiGCat and UM Institute of Data Science).
University of Luxembourg
Founded in 2003, the University of Luxembourg is the only public university of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Multilingual, international and research-oriented, it is also a modern institution with a personal atmosphere.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Researchers at the department of Biomedical Engineering combine basic science (how) with engineering (how to). They investigate, develop and apply engineering principles and tools to unravel the pathophysiology of diseases and enhance diagnostics, intervention and treatment.
The research comprises eleven groups ordered in three clusters:
- Biomechanics Tissue Engineering
- Chemical Biology
- Biomedical Imaging & Modelling
Radbout University
Radboud University is a broad, internationally oriented research university. They value quality, combining excellent education with leading-edge research. Their academic expertise is closely related to important societal issues, both in the public and in the private domain. They play an important role in transferring knowledge to society. In this respect, regional entrepreneurs in particular benefit from their activities.
Institute of Data Science
The mission of the Institute of Data Science is to accelerate scientific discovery, improve clinical care and well being, and to strengthen communities. We will foster a collaborative environment for inter- and multi-disciplinary research and training founded on accurate, reproducible, multi-scale, distributed, and efficient computation.
Scannexus
Under the umbrella of Brains Unlimited, it provides a unique, integrated platform that combines state-of-the art technology with know-how (and access to patients) and internationally renowned expertise in post-acquisition processing of data in relation to Ultra-High-Field human MRI.
NUTRIM/Metabolic Research Unit Maastricht (MRUM)
NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism aims to contribute to excellence in health maintenance and personalized medicine by unraveling lifestyle and disease induced derangements in metabolism and by developing targeted nutritional, exercise and drug interventions
The Metabolic Research Unit Maastricht (MRUM) is a facility built to bring the field of human energy and substrate metabolism to the next level and is part of NUTRIM.
BiGCaT - Department of Bioinformatics
The Department of Bioinformatics – BiGCaT at Maastricht University provides bioinformatics and systems biology tools and workflows for the integrated analysis of multi-omics data sets and the biological interpretation of the results. BiGCaT provides services in three focus points:
- Pathway and network analysis
- Multi-omics data analysis workflows
- Semantic web approaches
Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering
Founded in 1992 as part of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, today the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) broadly covers Knowledge Engineering in research and teaching. DKE comprises three internationally respected research groups, having their focus on “Robotics, Agents and Interaction”, “Networks and Strategic Optimization”, and “Biomathematics and Bioinformatics”.
Website Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering
CARIM - School for cardiovascular disease
CARIM is one of the five schools of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of Maastricht University and is embedded within the Maastricht University Medical Center+ (Maastricht UMC+).
Website CARIM
Partnering Organisations
MaCSBio or its members participate in (inter)national organisations and consortia important for further advancing the MaCSBio research. Currently MaCBio is an active member of:
The Human Brain Project
The Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research (VPH Institute)
The Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School (BioSB)
The Netherlands Metabolomics Centre (NMC)
The Nutrigenomics and Nutritional Systems Biology Organization (NuGO)
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL)
and is part of the management of COST Open Multiscale Systems Medicine (OpenMultiMed)
The Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project is a H2020 FET Flagship Project which strives to accelerate the fields of neuroscience, computing and brain-related medicine.
The Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research (VPH Institute)
The Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research, in short VPH Institute, is an international non-profit organisation incorporated in Belgium, whose mission is to ensure that the Virtual Physiological Human is fully realised, universally adopted, and effectively used both in research and clinic.
Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School (BioSB)
The BioSB research school aims to offer a vibrant national environment for the scientific development and education of integrative bioinformatics and computational (systems) biology.
The Netherlands Metabolomics Centre (NMC)
The Netherlands Metabolomics Centre (NMC) brings together the vast knowledge and extensive expertise of the Dutch genomics and life sciences community to develop the technologies that will meet these demands.
The Nutrigenomics and Nutritional Systems Biology Organization (NuGO)
NuGO is an Association of Universities and Research Institutes focusing on the joint development of the research areas of molecular nutrition, personalised nutrition, nutrigenomics and nutritional systems biology.
The Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences (DTL)
DTL’s mission is to establish an interconnected research infrastructure that enables cross-disciplinary life science research in national and international collaboration in a cost-effective manner.
COST Open Multiscale Systems Medicine (OpenMultiMed)
COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe.
Become a MaCSBio-partner and get involved. The level of involvement can vary from partner to partner.