
he total number of staff (scientific and support staff) participating within NUTRIM is approx. 245 including some 120 PhD students.
Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT, NUTRIM
NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism is part of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and LifeSciences of the Maastricht University. NUTRIM initiates and catalyzes translational research into nutritional health benefits and risks focusing on metabolic and chronic inflammatory diseases. There are 15
departments incorporated within NUTRIM, amongst them the bioinformatics department (BiGCaT). The total number of staff (scientific and support staff) participating within NUTRIM is approx. 245 including some 120
PhD students. Within the bioinformatics department de main focus is to help understand the meaning of “omics” data, to integrate the knowledge needed to do that, to develop novel analysis methods and to apply all of that in ongoing biomedical research. See for additional information www.bigcat.unimaas.nl.