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What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters your lung? This molecular animation visualises how the virus particle can take over the host cell and turns it into a virus factory. Eventually, the host cell produces so many viral particles that it dies and releases numerous new virus particles.

Eva and Romy, two students at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at UM, took a year of from their studies to direct the Patient as a Person foundation (Mens Achter de Patiënt (in Dutch: Mens achter de Patiënt), or in short MAP. MAP advocates for human-centered care in the field of...

Maastricht University has been officially admitted into the LHCb experiment at CERN, starting January 2020. At the same time, the Faculty of Science and Engineering installed a new chair, prof. Marcel Merk, on collider physics into the newly founded research group.

Jean-Jacques Herings, Professor of Microeconomics at Maastricht University, was elected Economic Theory Fellow by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET). Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high education standards...

On 30 January 2019 Sylvia Roozen obtained her PhD at Maastricht University with the Cum Laude predicate. She’s the 18^th PhD student at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (since its establishment in 1995) to receive this distinction.

On 16 November, the fourth annual ITEM (Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross-border cooperation and Mobility) conference took place. Around 120 experts and scientists from several countries gathered in Brussels to discuss the theme 'Cross-border cooperation: challenges ahead'.

Jade Connor and Maneesha Bhugwansing from the United States are joining the UM community as Fulbright / Maastricht University Award grantees this year.