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Supported by the Gerhard und Ilse Schick Stiftung<\/a>, the Research Stay grants of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) enable short term visits to partner laboratories abroad, giving researchers the opportunity to access expertise and technologies outside Luxembourg, and to build partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2025, the grants supported stays of early-career researchers Lucia Gallucci, Lorina Bilalli and Elle Wilson at internationally recognised research centres. Lucia Gallucci<\/a> visited the Radboud University Medical Center<\/a> in the Netherlands, where she acquired advanced expertise in stem cell differentiation and in the generation of astrocytes, specialised brain cells that play a key role in rare neurological disorders. Lorina Bilalli<\/a> carried out her research stay at Charit\u00e9 Berlin<\/a> in Germany, where she learned new imaging skills that make it possible to visualise in great detail the protein synthesis machinery in brain cells and how it changes in the early stages of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Dr Elle Wilson<\/a> spent her stay at Juntendo University<\/a> in Tokyo where she discovered new laboratory tools to study genes linked to Parkinson\u2019s disease and strengthened the ongoing collaboration with the Japanese institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across all stays, the researchers worked closely with host teams, contributed to ongoing projects and gained practical experience in different research environments. Learning from international experts strengthened their skills while bringing fresh ideas as well as cutting-edge data and methods back to the LCSB. \u201cThese grants illustrate how targeted philanthropy helps early-career researchers to grow, accelerates knowledge exchange and fosters international collaborations,\u201d concludes Dr Kristina Hondrila<\/a>, fundraiser at the LCSB. \u201cWe are very grateful to the Schick Foundation for making these research stays possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nDiscover the LCSB Research Stays in pictures<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Lucia in the Netherlands<\/strong>

Meet Lucia Gallucci, a doctoral researcher in the Enzymology & Metabolism<\/a> group at the LCSB. She shares her experience from a short research stay at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen.

A big thank you also to Prof. Nael Nadif Kasri and his team in Nijmegen for the warm welcome and cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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