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What is it like to live and work in Silicon Valley? Alumna Anna Karmann answers this question.‘‘The secret of Silicon Valley is the electrifying, unique environment.’’

Can she explain the second brain to children? For her discovery of the involvement of the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) in colorectal cancer, Veerle Melotte has been nominated for the Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs. That might give her the chance to share her research – and possibly get a foot in the door...

Ilaria Passarani defended her PhD dissertation October 8, 2019 at Maastricht University.

Interview wirh prof. Eddy Houwaart, after his official retirement, about the lessons medical history has to offer.

Ingrid Kremer (VHC), Dorijn Hertroijs (VHC) and Bram de Boer (ALTC research line) have been selected to join CAPHRI’s new ResearchTalent program.

We had the honour of being selected to represent Maastricht University at the annual Public Health Law seminar run by the Open Medical Institute in partnership with the Austrian-American Foundation and Maastricht University (academic partner) in Salzburg, Austria, over the last week. 

Almost 150,000 people in the Netherlands suffer from type 1 diabetes. Aart van Apeldoorn, diabetes researcher at the Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine (MERLN), hopes to do away with the insulin syringe by means of an implant known as the ‘tea bag’

King Willem-Alexander and Minister Bruins for healthcare and Sport made an unexpected visit to the initiatives of the Blue Care pioneer site in Maastricht on 4 September. 

For the first time, in experimental animal models for MS, researchers at Maastricht University (UM) and Hasselt University (UHasselt) have succeeded in restoring the substance myelin, which is degraded by the disease.