Stories

It is always great when a plan comes together, especially if it happens all at once. Rocio Arreguín Campos developed a quick and easy-to-use diagnostic tool for malaria. Together with her boss, Bart van Grinsven, she successfully tested the device in Brazil.

Artificial intelligence can become trustworthy in medicine if trained on high-quality data from a sufficiently large and divers patient population. But what happens when data is scarce because a condition or trait is extremely rare?

Imagine living on an island that loses about 90% of its land area due to natural disasters, putting your food supply at risk. How would you ensure there is enough space and food for yourself and your offspring?

Imagine having a healthy weight and still suffering a heart attack or stroke. Systems biologist Femke Smit is investigating the relationship between weight and health and is making some surprising discoveries.

Do you want to make chemistry more sustainable, for example, by using green hydrogen?

Healthy school lunches in primary schools ensure that children consume more vegetables, both at school and at home. This is supported by research led by Ilse van Lier.

Conspiracy theories about pandemics are timeless and have followed the same patterns over the centuries. Timo Greve and Joris Roosen's research into pandemic conspiracy theories demonstrates this.

Sebastián Ayala Ruano focused his Systems Biology master’s thesis research on the microbiome of wastewater. His work resulted in a model that predicts how microorganisms in the contaminated water behave and interact.

Lions do swim, but never has a lion been seen swimming a distance stretching over a kilometre. This remarkable observation by nature conservationists reached over ten million people. “People resonate with this kind of animal news," assistant professor Christopher O’Bryan says.

Do you know what your neighbour at FSE does? Probably, but do you know anything about the researcher at the end of the hallway, on the other floors of your building, or even in other locations at Maastricht, Venlo, Sittard-Geleen, and Heerlen?