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PhD Graduation Ceremony 2021
En savoir plusIn the academic year 2020/2021, more than 1850 students graduated from the University of Luxembourg, including over 150 doctoral candidates. To congratulate the graduates and wish them all the best on their future paths, the university has just organised the traditional Graduation Week. It was the occasion to hand over the diplomas, celebrate their achievements…
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Experimental and computational synergy – Promising COVID-19 results
En savoir plusAn international collaboration between researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE, Bilbao) and the Department of Immunology of St Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Kanneganti Lab, Memphis) highlights how fostering synergies between computational and experimental studies can lead to important…
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88 000 euros remis dans le cadre de la 9e édition d’Espoir en tête
En savoir plusLes Rotary Clubs du Luxembourg ont pu récolter d’importants dons auprès de donateurs privés et de leurs sponsors, et ce malgré l’annulation de la traditionnelle projection d’un film exceptionnel dans les cinémas Kinepolis.
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ParkinsonNet Luxembourg fête ses 5 ans
En savoir plusParkinsonNet Luxembourg créé il y a seulement cinq ans, a démarré pleinement ses activités en 2018 avec la première formation professionnelle multidisciplinaire. Calqué sur le programme néerlandais très efficace fondé par le professeur Bas Bloem de l’Université Radboud de Nimègue, le concept est axé sur la mise en place d’un réseau de soins intégrés pour…
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Launch of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases
En savoir plusA new European initiative will build a collaborative platform for data and sample sharing, to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases. The European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) integrates existing initiatives to build, grow, and deliver a scalable and self-sustainable platform for storage and analysis of high-quality clinical samples and data collections. The University…
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BY-COVID: A new EU project for pandemic preparedness
En savoir plusBeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), a new €12 million Horizon Europe funded project, was recently launched. It will tackle the data challenges that can hinder effective pandemic response. The core aim of the project is to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone. ELIXIR Luxembourg and the Bioinformatics Core of the LCSB will participate…
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International Metaproteomics Symposium – A fast-growing field
En savoir plusAt the end of September, researchers from the Systems Ecology group at the LCSB organised the fourth International Metaproteomics Symposium at the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg. This 3-day event was the occasion to bring together an international community using high-resolution molecular approaches to study microbiomes, and more particularly metaproteomics, in a wide range of research fields.…
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Visit of the Prime Minister to meet researchers working on COVID-19
En savoir plusOn 5 October, on Campus Belval, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel along with Minister for Higher Education and Research Claude Meisch met with researchers from the different institutions involved in the Research Luxembourg COVID-19 Taskforce to discuss actions carried out during the pandemic, important milestones of the collaboration between the government and scientists, as well as ongoing research projects.
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Un partenariat fructueux avec RBC
En savoir plusLa Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) apporte son soutien au Scienteens Lab pour le développement de son programme en informatique. Grâce à ce partenariat, un nouvel atelier baptisé « Art et intelligence artificielle » sera ouvert à la réservation dès octobre 2021.
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Launch of ZeroPM, a new European project focusing on water pollution
En savoir plusPersistent, mobile (PM) substances are being recognised as serious threats to the safety of water resources. In many cases, drinking water supplies have to be purified using expensive technologies because of contamination by PM substances. The most famous examples of PM substances are per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) but there are numerous others. This worldwide…