Dr Amée Buziau (Dept of Internal Medicine) received this year’s Prof. Dr. J. Terpstra Young Investigator Award at the Annual Dutch Diabetes Meeting (NVDO).

Luisa Wensky, a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Internal Medicine, has won the PhD Student Competition at the 2026 FIGON-LDDC Dutch Medicines Days. 

Dr.ir. Rob Holtackers (Dept of Imaging) received the Certificate of Merit Award for his recent work 'Improved Detection of RV Fibrosis Using Dark-Blood LGE CMR and Impact on Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Diagnosis' at the 2026 European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) Congress.

Dr Matthijs Cluitmans (Dept of Cardiology) is awarded a prestigious Vidi grant from NWO for the project 'Predicting sudden cardiac death’.

With ischemic stroke, every minute counts. However, many patients do not seek hospital care until it is too late, for example, because symptoms are not immediately recognized or because people wake up with signs of neurological deficits. As a result, a group of patients is no longer eligible for catheter treatment. 

Some processes in our body might seem obvious to us. If you cut your finger, the bleeding will stop shortly and form a scab. Behind that seemingly simple process hides a sophisticated system of platelets and clotting factors. By now, we know that platelets do much more than halt bleeding: they function as information carriers and regulators of disease processes. 

A large-scale study by researchers from Maastricht UMC+ and Amsterdam UMC demonstrates that lower socioeconomic status (SES) of patients admitted to Dutch intensive care units contributes to worse survival.

As of 1 June 2026, Dr Fatma Karapinar has been appointed Professor of Medication Safety at Maastricht University.

Within the framework of the Dr E. Dekker programme of the Dutch Heart Foundation, DrJob Verdonschot, DrMartijn Hoes and DrClaudia Schoenichen, have each been awarded a prestigious research grant.

Dr Hongxing Luo (Dept of Physiology) has received a Veni grant from NWO for his project titled ‘Earthquakes in the heart: Origin of heart sounds and application to heart failure’.