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PhD Candidate in Metabolic Inflammation and COPD Welcome to Maastricht University! What if metabolically induced inflammation could help explain why COPD develops and progresses? In this PhD project, you will use innovative data analysis approaches and unique, deeply phenotyped cohorts to investigate the complex relationship between dietary factors, metabolic disturbances and COPD pathology, and explore how targeted nutritional and pharmacological interventions may influence this process. PhD Candidate in Metabolic Inflammation and COPD - Our goal: to better understand how diet-induced metabolic alterations and metaflammation contribute to the development and progression of. By uncovering these mechanisms and relationships, the project aims to provide a basis for innovative nutritional and pharmacological intervention strategies. - Your colleagues: you will become part of the Department of Respiratory Medicine and be embedded in NUTRIM Institute of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism. Here, you will join a multidisciplinary research environment where clinical and experimental researchers closely collaborate with colleagues from the Maastricht University Medical Center. The project will be led at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences by Dr. Rosanne Beijers who will provide daily supervision. COPD is a heterogeneous lung disease driven by complex interactions between environmental exposures and individual susceptibility determinants. Next to smoking and air pollution, dietary quality is increasingly identified as modulator of COPD development and progression. Poor dietary quality is reflected in abdominal obesity as source of metaflammation even in normal weight. Also, alterations in the gut microbiome have been shown in COPD as potential contributors but the role of metaflammation in disease progression is poorly understood. What you do In this project, you will investigate whether diet-induced metabol...



