NUTRIM Research
Note: our website is currently under construction because of renaming the divisions into research areas. Thank you for your patience.
Mission of our research and focus
The mission of NUTRIM is to promote translational research into chronic metabolic and inflammatory disorders with a high societal burden. NUTRIM offers an excellent research programme that seeks to unravel the complex interactions between lifestyle factors and disease-specific factors in the onset and progression of metabolic and inflammatory conditions. Our research contributes to personalized therapeutic, lifestyle and preventive strategies.
Our core research is organised around integrated multidisciplinary themes in three research areas, covering five key expertise areas and focusing on multi divers chronic conditions.
Included are 20 clinical - and basic sciences departments of Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+) that encompass the entire spectrum of basic, translational, clinical, and prevention projects. Providing NUTRIM with a distinct international health sciences profile that optimally fits within the Maastricht UMC+ care vision and organisation.
With the availability of unique patient cohorts and biobank as well as an internationally distinct, state of the art infrastructure for metabolic phenotyping allowing a network-based approach linking tissue and organ systems within chronic metabolic disorders we are able to mentor scientists at different stages of their academic career.
In its PhD programme NUTRIM aims to meet the demand for scientists who are acquainted with novel fundamental research concepts and are equipped to optimise the translation from science to the clinic and to public health.
NUTRIM Research areas
1. Metabolic Health
Our goals in research area l are to create a better mechanistic understanding of the etiology of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which all affect global health.
Led by Jogchum Plat & Susan Steinbusch-Coort
Case Studies of research area 1
More on our research in metabolic health
2. Liver & Digestive Health
Central disorders that are investigated in research area ll include inflammatory bowel disease, liver failure, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer cachexia, cholestasis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
Led by John Penders & Ronit Shiri Sverdlov
Case Studies of research area 2
More on our research in liver and digestive health
3. Healthy Ageing
Research in area 3 aims to understand the onset of disease related to age and lifestyle and to identify people with an enhanced risk for disease and (re-)hospitalisation.
Led by Luc van Loon & Ramon Langen
Case Studies of research area 3
More on our research on healthy ageing
