News

  • During the BIOMEDICA Life Sciences Summit, which took place on 9-10 May in Eindhoven (NL), the Ralf Raue Innovation Award for Life Sciences 2017 was awarded to the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMBIM).

  • This week, Maastricht University was featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in a series about exceptional universities. Amongst other people, the newspaper talked to Professor Michel Dumontier, Professor Hildegard Schneider and Martin Paul, UM’s president.

  • Workshop on Oversight and resources of partially and fully self-financed agencies

  • De Academische Werkplaats Duurzame Zorg werkt mee aan een innovatief project van zorggroep Huisartsenzorg Drenthe (HZD).

  • Newspaper de Observant has published an interview with Associate Professor Yvonne van der Meer to bust the myths surrounding (bio)plastic

  • The KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) has appointed prof. dr. Anita Jansen, full professor of experimental clinical psychology and dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, as a member of the Academy.

  • Researchers at the MERLN Institute for regenerative medicine launched a new worldwide research database for biomaterials, called the Compendium for Biomaterial Transcriptomics (cBiT). It is their goal to quickly expand cBiT with new biomaterial data, generated not only in MERLN but also in...

  • After a wonderful career in science, 30 years of which were at Maastricht University, Prof. Wiebe Eco Bijker will retire on 12 May.

  • The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has selected the project ‘Leading to Success: SMART Choices and SMART Tools’, submitted by project leader Dr. Mindel van de Laar , for funding in a competitive selection process to encourage open and online education.