The mission of NUTRIM is to promote translational research into chronic metabolic and inflammatory disorders with a high societal burden that will contribute to personalised lifestyle and medicine approaches.
NUTRIM offers an excellent research programme that encompasses 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.
Our core research programme is organised around integrated multidisciplinary themes in 3 research lines including 16 clinical and basic sciences departments of Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+).
NUTRIM is a multidisciplinary research school of approximately 150 researchers, 245 PhD students and 70 support staff.
NUTRIM research focuses on etiology and progression of chronic diseases, including diabetes, COPD, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease and chronic kidney disease and contributes to improving cancer care. Biomedical research is directly linked to clinical trials and research focusing on behavioural interventions and health promotion. A primary goal with this approach is to accelerate the translation of science to patient and population. Our distinct focus on nutrition and metabolism has placed NUTRIM at the cutting-edge of various related domains.
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.
Led by: Jogchum Plat – Profile page & Stef Kremers – Profile page
Obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease are major metabolic diseases affecting global health. The mechanisms underlying these diseases are still not fully understood. Our research goals are to create a better mechanistic understanding of the etiology of obesity, type 2 diabetes and CVD.
Division 1 video: Obesity, Diabetes & Cardiovascular Health
Led by: Steven Olde Damink – Profile page & 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.
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Led by: Luc van Loon – Profile page & Frederik-Jan van Schooten – 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.
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