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A team of Maastricht Science Programme students competes in iGEM 2020: an amicable contest where students get the opportunity to engage in pushing the boundaries of synthetic biology.

In February 2020, some 50 students from our Master's programme joined a trip to the international institutions in Geneva.

Portrait of Rainer Goebel, professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. An academic overachiever, the Netherlands’ first Tesla driver and hacker of the first iPhone, Goebel is also a farmer’s son and a family man.

Can you reduce the room temperature of your home and still feel comfortable? Can you keep up the habit of doing fewer loads of laundry? Yes and yes, according to the findings of the ENERGISE project, which challenged 300 households in eight countries to reduce their energy consumption.

Due to an acute shortage of organ donors, hundreds of people die each year in the Netherlands and Belgium alone. One large group of potential donors may not even be aware that they can donate their organs: people who opt for euthanasia. For his PhD research, Jan Bollen studied the issue of organ...

Thanks to a heart transplant, Rogier Veltrop survived a life-threatening illness. The Maastricht University researcher wants to make the most of his ‘bonus years’ by contributing to a new treatment for cardiovascular disease.

To support this research on how brain cells recover from injury and other research, Marcel Aries, neurologist and intensivist at the Maastricht UMC+, founded the Brain Battle Fund.