PhD candidate “Muscle wasting during Exacerbations of COPD”, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Respiratory Medicine

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Deadline: 14 Nov 2021

Department of Respiratory Medicine

The Department of Respiratory Medicine is part of NUTRIM, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, in Maastricht. The research focus of the department is COPD and lung cancer with a specific interest in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass and metabolism in health and disease. The Department of Respiratory Medicine has a long standing interest and expertise in experimental and clinical research into mechanisms of and interventions in the metabolic consequences of pulmonary diseases.

NUTRIM, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism

NUTRIM aims to contribute to health maintenance and personalised medicine by unraveling lifestyle and disease-induced derangements in metabolism and by developing targeted nutritional, exercise and drug interventions.

NUTRIM is internationally recognised as Centre of Excellence for research on obesity, diabetes, COPD and cancer cachexia.

This is facilitated by a state of the art research infrastructure and close interaction between scientists, clinicians, master and PhD students (in 2020: approximately 134 researchers, 256 PhD students and 63 support staff). Our core research programme is organised around integrated multidisciplinary themes in three divisions including 18 clinical and basic sciences departments of Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+).

https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/school-nutrition-and-translational-research-metabolism



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