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Uyên Châu Nguyên wins UM Dissertation Prize 2025

Uyên Châu Nguyên wins UM Dissertation Prize 2025

29 January 2026

During the Dies Natalis of Maastricht University, Uyên Châu Nguyên received the UM Dissertation Prize 2025.

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Global research network launched to study menopause and heart health

Global research network launched to study menopause and heart health

20 January 2026

Ten international health research funders, including the Dutch Heart Foundation, are investing $10 million in a new global research network to improve early prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. The initiative focuses on understanding how menopause affects heart health and how early intervention can reduce risk.

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Tammo Delhaas

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Tammo Delhaas is Pediatric Cardiologist and Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his MD at the University of Groningen and received his PhD degree from Maastricht University in 1993 for a thesis on cardiac mechanics. After his training in Pediatrics in Maastricht and Utrecht, he received a Fulbright grant/ICIN-Fellowship and spent one year at the Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine from the UCSD. Thereafter, he trained in Pediatric Cardiology in Aachen and Melbourne. In 2000, he returned to Maastricht as Pediatric Cardiologist and continued his research on the crossroads of (Pediatric) Cardiology, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. In 2009, he was appointed Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Maastricht University, where he is involved in projects related to cellular and cardiac mechanics, cardiac pacing, and mathematical modeling of the heart and circulation.

Prof. Tammo Delhaas is heading the CardioVascular System Dynamics Research Group (CVSDRG). With clinical questions regarding (congenital) heart diseases in mind, his research focusses on asynchronous electrical activation, vascular and myocardial structure-function relation, and computer model-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiac failure, pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart diseases. Besides standard expertise, CVSDRG uses following techniques/models in which it has expertise of extraordinary quality according to international standards: 1) CircAdapt, a lumped parameter mathematical model of the human heart and circulation that enables real-time simulation of cardiovascular system dynamics in a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological situations (www.circadapt.org); 2) Finite Element Model of the heart with left and right ventricle, simulating local stress and strain as a function of time with emphasis on adaptation of wall anatomy to local mechanical load; 3) Pulse Wave Propagation and Computational Fluid Dynamics models that predict pressure and flow waveforms after vascular interventions, such as Arterio-Venous Fistula creation for hemodialysis. Prof. Tammo Delhaas serves as a reviewer or member of the editorial board of many journals, and has received grants from, amongst others, the Dutch Heart Foundation, Maastricht UMC+, Province of Limburg, NWO, European Research Council, and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN).

Tammo-delhaas

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: 3.366
T:+31(0)43 388 16 67

  • 2026
    • Buonocunto, M., Delhaas, T., Lyon, A., Heijman, J., & Lumens, J. (2026). Spatiotemporal determinants of stretch-activated channel-induced re-entry in ventricular tissue: An in-silico study. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 210, 150-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmcc.2025.11.007
    • van den Acker, G. P. H., Dhont, S., van Loon, T., Churchill, T. W., Timmermans, F., Delhaas, T., Bertrand, P. B., & Lumens, J. (2026). Impact of left-heart myopathy on mitral valve stenosis assessment and interventional outcomes: an in-silico trial. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 7(1), Article ztaf097. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztaf097
  • 2025
    • Parikh, S., Reesink, K. D., Spronck, B., Delhaas, T., & Giudici, A. (2025). Impact of Dynamic Axial Stretching on the Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity: Physical Foundation and Clinical Implications. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-025-03940-7
    • Neuen, S. M. L., Ophelders, D. R. M. G., Widowski, H., Hütten, M. C., Brokken, T., van Gorp, C., de Lange, I. H., Zimmermann, L. J. I., Nikkels, P. G. J., Severens-Rijvers, C. A. H., Sthijns, M. M. J. P. E., LaPointe, V. L. S., Jolani, S., Pillow, J. J., Delhaas, T., Seiler, C., Reynaert, N. L., & Wolfs, T. G. A. M. (2025). Multipotent adult progenitor cell therapy: Effect of timing and frequency on lung health in preterm lambs during inflammation. Pharmacological Research, 221, Article 107979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2025.107979
    • van der Laan, K. W. F., Neutel, C. H. G., Pencheva, M. G., Wesley, C. D., Krüger, D. N., Schalwijk, C. G., De Meyer, G. R. Y., Martinet, W., Reesink, K. D., Delhaas, T., Giudici, A., Guns, P.-J., & Spronck, B. (2025). Vascular aging impairs active modulation of murine aortic stiffness by smooth muscle cells. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 329(5), C1398-C1410. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00387.2025
    • van der Bruggen, M. M., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Spronck, B., Stehouwer, C. D. A., Delhaas, T., Reesink, K. D., & Schalkwijk, C. G. (2025). Plasma reactive dicarbonyls are not independently associated with arterial stiffness: The Maastricht Study. American Journal of Hypertension, 38(10), 777-787. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajh/hpaf068
    • Van den Eynde, M. D. G., van der Bruggen, M. M., Houben, A. J. H. M., Reesink, K. D., Spronck, B., Delhaas, T., Scheijen, J. J. L. J. M., Miyata, T., & Schalkwijk, C. G. (2025). Pyridoxamine does not reduce arterial stiffness in an 8-week randomized double-blind placebo-controlled intervention trial with abdominally obese individuals. Diabetes Obesity & Metabolism, 27(9), 5332-5336. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.16524
    • Pencheva, M. G., Berends, E., van der Laan, K. W. F., Giudici, A., Niessen, P., Scheijen, J. L. J. M., Vangrieken, P., Leenders, P., Delhaas, T., Caiment, F., Kutmon, M., Trujillo, F. M., Wouters, K., Foulquier, S., Spronck, B., Reesink, K. D., & Schalkwijk, C. G. (2025). Glyoxalase-1 overexpression attenuates arterial wall stiffening in diabetic mice. Cardiovascular Diabetology, 24(1), Article 283. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-025-02823-4
    • Manetti, C. A., van Osta, N., Beela, A. S., Herbots, L., Prinzen, F. W., Delhaas, T., & Lumens, J. (2025). Impact of myocardial phenotype on optimal atrioventricular delay settings during biventricular and left bundle-branch pacing at rest and during exercise: insights from a virtual patient study. EP Europace, 27(4), Article euaf082. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaf082
    • Van Osta, N., Van Den Acker, G., Van Loon, T., Arts, T., Delhaas, T., & Lumens, J. (2025). Numerical accuracy of closed-loop steady state in a zero-dimensional cardiovascular model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 383(2293), Article 20240208. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0208
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