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 four 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.
Centre of excellence for scientific research
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 centres around the following research areas:
Liver & Digestive Health
Led by: John Penders & Ronit Shiri Sverdlov – Profile page
This research is providing novel insight into the pathophysiological processes of the gut and liver and translates these findings to the clinic. Central disorders that are investigated include inflammatory bowel disease, liver failure, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer cachexia, cholestasis and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
About research area 2
Publications
Case Studies on liver & digestive health
Health Ageing
Led by: Luc van Loon – Profile page & Ramon Langen – Profile page
The research in respiratory & age-related health is etiological with the aim to understand the onset of disease related to age and lifestyle and to identify those people with an enhanced risk for disease and (re-)hospitalisation.
About research area 3
Publications
Case Studies on healthy ageing
