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As of May 15, 2018, Professor Carmen Dirksen will succeed Dr. Gemma Voss as managing director of the Clinical Trial Center Maastricht B.V. (CTCM). Professor Dirksen, also head of the KEMTA department, has accepted the CTCM directorship temporarily uptill January 1st, 2019.

Scientists from the MERLN Institute and the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) have successfully created in the laboratory embryo-like structures from mouse stem cells. These model embryos resemble natural ones to the extent that, for the first time, they implant into the uterus and initiate pregnancy.

Het derde artikel van Tessa Quanjel en anderen, getiteld: ‘Shifting hospital care to primary care: An evaluation of cardiology care in a primary care setting in the Netherlands’ gepubliceerd in het internationale tijdschrift BMC Family Practice. Het artikel gaat over de evaluatie van PlusPunt Medisch Centrum en is gericht op het specialisme cardiologie.

Last Thursday, our UM colleague Dr Mohammad Sajjad Rahnama'i received a royal honour from the deputy mayor of the municipality of Heerlen, Emile Roemer. Sajjad Rahnama'i was appointed Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services to society.

During her medical internship in Shirati, Tanzania, Victoria von Salmuth found out that a lot of patients, suffered from malnutrition. That's when she started the Shirati Food Programme

On 9 April, MCEL member Marcus Meyer successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "The Position of Dutch Works Councils in Multinational Corporations".

On Thursday, 28 June 2018, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law will celebrate its 25th anniversary in the form of a full-day conference at Chateau Neercanne in Maastricht. The anniversary event will feature interesting panels composed of high-level academics discussing the subjects of EU law, comparative law and legal publishing in a beautiful setting. For information and registration, see: mj-25-year-anniversary.

13-20 April 2018
Upon invitation of the department of international law from The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Prof Dr Marjan Peeters attended the XVI Blischenko conference on Public international law, which this year was dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Beatrice Scholtes will defend her PhD dissertation Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 14:00 hrs in the Auditorium of the Maastricht University (Minderbroedersberg 4-6, Maastricht).

On the 20th of April Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) hosted its third international conference on Applied Biobased Materials (ABC). This year's theme was: Biobased Materials for Innovations in Fibre Applications. It was an inspiring day for all 130 visitors.