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Relais pour la Vie 2021: together and connected

The cancer research team from the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg took part in the 2021 edition organised by the Fondation Cancer.

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Better understanding breast cancer

Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that Ser5 phosphorylation of the actin-bundling protein L-plastin increases breast cancer cell invasiveness. Their findings have been published in the renowned open access journal “Cell Communication and Signaling”.

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Excellent Doctoral Thesis Awards 2020 in science

The Doctoral School of Science and Engineering (DSSE) at the University of Luxembourg has recently awarded nine doctoral candidates for their outstanding doctoral thesis. The research topics included masonry walls, IT security, geometry, large scale modeling, causes of Parkinson’s disease, light-matter interaction, laser welding, system protocols and voting procedures.

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Towards an extensive offer for medical studies

With the aim of creating a “Health campus”, the University of Luxembourg organised different meetings with potential partners. In parallel, two new courses are offered for first-year bachelor students in medicine.

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NEUBIAS 2019: fruitful exchanges on bioimage analysis

The third European BioImage Analysts Conference NEUBIAS gathered almost 300 participants from 2 to 8 February 2019 in Luxembourg. Researchers, image analysists, microscopists, software developers and industrial partners from all over the world discussed the recent scientific developments and open tools in bioimage analysis.

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PMC Pump Prime Fund 2018 for Elisabeth Letellier

In the frame of the annual retreat of the Personalised Medicine Consortium (PMC), which took place in December 2018, Dr. Elisabeth Letellier from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) received an award for her research on colorectal cancer.

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Fondation Cancer: 417,400€ grant for skin cancer research

Three researchers from the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) at the University of Luxembourg received a 417,400€ grant from the Fondation Cancer in order to investigate the role of the secretome in melanoma progression.

Events

Relais pour la Vie 2018

This year again, the Life Sciences Research Unit (LSRU) is participating in the Relais pour la Vie. This huge charity event is organised by the Fondation Cancer in Luxembourg, which has been generously supporting important projects in cancer research for many years at the LSRU.