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Sander Dekker, the Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, visited the Healthy Primary School of the Future in Parkstad on Monday 23 May.  He was interested in seeing the project in practice and hearing first-hand how the children experienced it.

Professor Ilja Arts, scientific director of the Maastricht Centre for Systems Biology (MaCSBio), announced at the first MaCSBio Science day on 17 May that the institute would focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

Chris Evelo (ELIXIR Netherlands) is the new co-leader of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, replacing Barend Mons, the Head of Dutch ELIXIR Node. Evelo joins Helen Parkinson (EMBL-EBI) and Carole Goble (ELIXIR UK) in leading the Interoperability Platform.

Five UM students from the Dutch Law master’s programme were crowned the winners of the 2016 moot court competition on 18 May, organised by VAR (Vereniging voor bestuursrecht).

Dean FHML will head up the MRI scanner lab

Interfaculty institute for systems biology research will focus on two research lines: systems medicine of chronic diseases and computational and systems neuroscience.

KNAW has appointed sixteen new members, two of which are two UM professors: Karin Bijsterveld and André Klip. 

Jany Rademakers, endowed professor of Health Literacy and Patient Participation: “Not all patients can assume an active role.”

John Penders (NUTRIM/CAPHRI) was awarded a Vidi-grant for his research project ‘Unwanted souvenirs’.

The TERMIS-EU Council and the TERMIS-EU Awards Committee have awarded Dr. Lorenzo Moroni with the TERMIS-EU Young Scientist Award 2016.