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Through the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), the University of Luxembourg has become a partner in the health research area of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT Health).\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cThis is an important step, both for the University and for the Grand Duchy,\u201d says Prof. Dr. St\u00e9phane Pallage, President of the University of Luxembourg: \u201cIt gives the country access to a network of Europe\u2019s leading companies and academic institutions who are working on novel solutions for health preservation and on approaches to diagnosis and therapy in an aging society.\u201d Prof. Rejko Kr\u00fcger, Head of the Clinical & Experimental Neuroscience Group<\/a> at LCSB and spearhead of the EIT<\/a> membership, also sees great opportunities: \u201cWe now have the chance to develop the results of our research towards patients far more efficiently than before.\u201d EIT is a public-private partnership, funded jointly by the private and public sector and primarily by the European Commission.<\/p>

LCSB has already been involved in an EIT Health<\/a> project for some time now, as Rejko Kr\u00fcger relates: \u201cWith our know-how in Parkinson\u2019s research we are doing the groundwork, so to speak, for the technology company Phillips and the start-up company Portabilis in the development of a combined sensor. With this combined sensor, it should be possible to recognise an acute risk of falling in Parkinson\u2019s patients with early enough warning to prevent injury and at the same time call for help. In this project, both we and the companies recognised how important it would be for us to contribute in a bigger way to the EIT network and for Luxembourg to become a regular member. So we submitted the application to this effect in 2017.\u201d It was accepted at the end of 2018: Luxembourg is now the third member country in the EIT Belgium\/Netherlands region. Thus, EIT BeNe has become EIT BeNeLux.<\/p>

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Dr. Rejko Kr\u00fcger talking about EIT Health<\/i><\/p>

Kr\u00fcger describes the benefits of membership in the EIT Network using the example of developing the sensor for Parkinson\u2019s patients: \u201cPhillips had already established a system that can automatically detect when a person with a Parkinson\u2019s-related or other walking disorder falls, and can then call for help. But by then it could be too late, and the person could have already suffered life-threatening injuries. So the question was: how could advancements be made in terms of prevention. That brought Phillips and Portabilis to us.\u201d<\/p>

Why they opted for LCSB: In the scope of the Luxembourg Parkinson\u2019s study (NCER-PD)<\/a>, LCSB and scientists of the Luxemburg Institute of Health<\/a>, the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg<\/a>, the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg<\/a> and the Laboratoire National de Sant\u00e9<\/a> are collecting data on the walking patterns of Parkinson\u2019s patients. The patients wear shoes outfitted with special sensors. These sensors provide the scientists with a continuous stream of data about things such as stride length and tripping frequency. \u201cThrough this digital health approach, we want to identify patterns in the gait that are clear signs of an imminent fall,\u201d says Kr\u00fcger, who coordinates NCER-PD.<\/p>

Combining the Phillips system with the NCER-PD approach should make it possible to prevent people from hurting themselves when they fall \u2013 for example by having special hip airbags inflate immediately before the fall. At the same time, the system is used to call for assistance. \u201cAs a regular partner in EIT Health, we can now submit project applications ourselves,\u201d Kr\u00fcger says. \u201cThat means we are not only contributing our expertise to existing projects, but can also create incentive and conduct targeted research into new approaches that are emerging the context of EIT.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cEIT projects, in which ideas from various partners come together, will help us enormously to bring our basic research to the patient as a concrete benefit,\u201d says Prof. Rudi Balling, Director of LCSB. \u201cEIT Health offers a favourable environment for that: outstanding partners, truly good and proven infrastructures, and a financial endowment with which projects can be carried through to completion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\u00a9 Michel Brumat<\/h7>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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