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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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Pieter Dagnelie

Professor

Prof. Pieter Dagnelie is nutritional epidemiologist. He studied human nutrition at Wageningen University and received his PhD in 1988 based on a population-based, mixed-longitudinal cohort study of the nutritional status and growth of children fed macrobiotic diets. Subsequently, he received fellowships from the Dutch Cancer Society (1989) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991) to work on the etiology of weight loss in cancer patients, using magnetic resonance spectroscopy and stable isotope tracers as main research tools.

In 1997, he was appointed Associate Professor in Maastricht to lead the nutritional epidemiology research group at the department of epidemiology and to build up the collaboration on nutritional epidemiology within Maastricht UMC+. In 2012, he received a strategic professorship in nutritional epidemiology.

Prof. Dagnelie’s overall aim is to explore new paradigms in the field of health research, lifestyle and nutrition, and to integrate and implement this new knowledge in disease prevention and treatment, thus contributing to improving people’s nutritional and health status, and quality of life. He has performed and supervised numerous observational studies and randomised clinical trials on the role of nutrition and bioactive compounds in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases and cancer, with the improvement of transmural health care. His central aim has always been to contribute to the wellbeing of healthy individuals and patients. He is former member of the Scientific Committee of  and the Medical Ethical Committee of Maastricht UMC+.

Prof. Dagnelie’s current research is focussed on The Maastricht Study (https://www.demaastrichtstudie.nl/), a large-scale study initiated in 2010 on the etiology and prognosis of diabetes and its comorbidities, with oversampling individuals with type 2 diabetes. Enrolment is still ongoing. The Maastricht Study is one of the largest studies world-wide of its kind. All participants undergo 5 half-days of intensive phenotyping. Prof. Dagnelie was involved in the Life Style collaborative group of The Maastricht Study and the development of the extensive Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess dietary intake, both in terms of nutrients, dietary patterns and processing.

Since 2012, Prof. Dagnelie has been member of the Management Team of The Maastricht Study. Within the MT, his focus is on optimising research methodology, quality, and design of projects within The Maastricht Study. He also contributes to exploring new targets for funding, and is currently coordinator for organizaing a second assessment round of this population study, including obtaining permission from the Health Council of The Netherlands.

Lately, outside The Maastricht Study, Prof. Dagnelie’s aim is to integrate population health and sustainability of the food chain, in relation with climate change, biodiversity, and fair pricing.

Pieter-dagnelie

Department of Internal Medicine
Randwijcksingel 35, 6229 EG Maastricht
T: +31(0)43 387 66 00

  • 2026
    • Dimitropoulou, N. M., Beran, M., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Dingena, C. F., Dagnelie, P. C., Van Der Kallen, C. J. H., Koster, A., Van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Brouwers, M. C. G. J., Schram, M. T., & de Galan, B. E. (2026). Liver fat content is not elevated in people with type 1 diabetes: the Maastricht Study. Diabetologia, 69(2), 364-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-025-06597-y
  • 2025
    • van Oeteren, M. A. J., De Groot, D. M., Buziau, A. M., Scheijen, J. L. J. M., van de Waarenburg, M. P. H., Kroon, A. A., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Dagnelie, P. C., Van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Houben, A. J. H. M., Meex, S. J. R., Schalkwijk, C. G., & Brouwers, M. C. G. J. (2025). The effects of dietary fructose on blood pressure are modified by the food matrix. Clinical Nutrition, 55, 134-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2025.10.017
    • Ren, Z., Wesselius, A., Kooi, M. E., van Greevenbroek, M., Dagnelie, P., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Kroon, A. A., Houben, A. J. H. M., Stehouwer, C. D. A., & Brouwers, M. C. G. J. (2025). Steatotic liver disease interacts with a polygenic risk score for triglyceride clearance to impact the risk of hypertriglyceridaemia: The Maastricht Study. Diabetologia, 68(10), 2217-2226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-025-06479-3
    • Loef, B., Boer, J. M. A., Beekman, M., Campman, S. L., Hoogendijk, E. O., Huider, F., Pagen, D. M. E., Splinter, M. J., van der Velde, J. H. P. M., Boomsma, D. I., Dagnelie, P. C., van Dongen, J., de Geus, E. J. C., Huisman, M., Ikram, M. A., Koster, A., Licher, S., Mierau, J. O., de Mutsert, R., ... Lifelines Corona Research Initiative (2025). The association of overweight, obesity, and long-term obesity with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a meta-analysis of 9 population-based cohorts from the Netherlands Cohorts Consortium. International Journal of Obesity, 49(4), 586-595. Article e13128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-024-01660-x
    • Tore, E. C., Adriaans, B. C., Olsen, T., Vinknes, K. J., Kooi, M. E., Elshorbagy, A. K., Bastani, N. E., Dagnelie, P. C., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Gundersen, T. E., Kožich, V., Refsum, H., Retterstøl, K., Stolt, E. T. K., & van Greevenbroek, M. M. J. (2025). Estimated stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity mediates the associations of total cysteine with adiposity: The Maastricht Study. Journal of Clinical Lipidology, 19(2), 348-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacl.2024.11.005
  • 2024
    • Mokhtar, S. B. A., Viljoen, J., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Dagnelie, P. C., Albers, J. D., Soeterboek, J., Scarpa, F., Colonna, A., van der Heide, F. C. T., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Bosm, H., Kroon, A. A., Nuijts, R. M. M. A., Gijs, M., Lakerveld, J., Malik, R. A., Webers, C. A. B., Stehouwer, C. D. A., & Koster, A. (2024). Greater exposure to PM<inf>2.5</inf> and PM<inf>10</inf> was associated with lower corneal nerve measures: the Maastricht study - a cross-sectional study. Environmental Health, 23(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-024-01110-1
    • Heyens, L., Kenjic, H., Dagnelie, P., Schalkwijk, C., Stehouwer, C., Meex, S., Kooman, J., Bekers, O., van Greevenbroek, M., Savelberg, H., Robaeys, G., de Galan, B., Koster, A., van Dongen, M., Eussen, S., & Koek, G. (2024). Forns index and fatty liver index, but not FIB-4, are associated with indices of glycaemia, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes: analysis of The Maastricht Study. BMJ Open Gastroenterology, 11(1), Article e001466. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgast-2024-001466
    • Dagnelie, P. C., Willems, P. C., & Jorgensen, N. R. (2024). Nutritional status as independent prognostic factor of outcome and mortality until five years after hip fracture: a comprehensive prospective study. Osteoporosis International, 35(7), 1273-1287. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-024-07088-3
    • van der Heide, F. C. T., Steens, I. L. M., Limmen, B., Mokhtar, S., van Boxtel, M. P. J., Schram, M. T., Köhler, S., Kroon, A. A., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Dagnelie, P. C., van Dongen, M. C. J. M., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Berendschot, T. T. J. M., Webers, C. A. B., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Koster, A., van Sloten, T. T., Jansen, J. F. A., Backes, W. H., & Stehouwer, C. D. A. (2024). Thinner inner retinal layers are associated with lower cognitive performance, lower brain volume, and altered white matter network structure-The Maastricht Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(1), 316-329. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13442
  • 2023
    • Ren, Z., Bosma, H., Wesselius, A., Eussen, S. J. P. M., Kooi, M. E., van der Kallen, C. J. H., Koster, A., van Greevenbroek, M. M. J., Dagnelie, P., Stehouwer, C. D. A., & Brouwers, M. C. G. J. (2023). Traditional lifestyle factors partly mediate the association of socioeconomic position with intrahepatic lipid content: The Maastricht study. JHEP Reports, 5(11), Article 100855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100855
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