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Alisa moved from Moscow to the Netherlands at 17 years old to become a first-year Regenerative Medicine and Technology (RMT) bachelor’s student. Turns out Alisa’s adventurous spirit pushes her to brand-new things, such as the RMT bachelor’s programme and her hobby Tribal Fusion dancing.

In the upcoming months, the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences will share tips on Instagram on how to live a healthier life. Not just a random collection, but tips based on actual research happening at our faculty. The brains behind this idea are Lieve Vonken and Gido Metz, PhD candidates...

Students at our faculty are committed to making an impact on health, well-being and society. Among them is Angelica, a master’s student in Health Education and Promotion who is an expert by experience on the impact well-formulated advice can have on a person’s life.

The healthcare sector is facing limited resources. Without smart innovation, quality of care is at risk for all patient groups. Jessica Storm, an alumna of the master’s programme Healthcare Policy Innovation and Management, researched the cost-effectiveness of fall prevention for one of the largest...

Manon’s academic path led her to work on prevention and well-being at the workplace. A place where we spend most of our time. The master’s programme Occupational Health and Sustainable Work (OHSW) uncovered the interventions that companies and policymakers need to keep work sustainable. Her job as a...

With the tear fluid research set up by Marlies Gijs, she is doing groundbreaking work.

During the 2023 ERS International Congress in Milan (Italy), the ERS presented the ERS Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 to Professor Martijn Spruit.

And how can it be counteracted? According to Luc van Loon, you can become a bodybuilder even after age 80. 'But the disadvantage of our dynamic muscles is that you also lose them quickly when you start using them less. Maintaining muscles is an active process. You have to keep stimulating them.' NUT...

Cutting-edge magnetic and acoustic levitation will bioprint heart models to improve protections against radiation in space and on Earth.

Type I diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own insulin-producing cells, located in the islets of Langerhans, are destroyed by the body itself. Instead of continuous insulin injections, patients have the option of clinical islet transplantation. This involves placing donor islets in...