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    Using mini-brains to study brain inflammation in Parkinson’s Disease

    The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition was organised for the first time in Luxemburg by the student’s association LuxDoc in order to promote various research topics to a general and non-scientific audience.

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    SysMedPD: Modelling Parkinson’s Disease in the Lab

    The SysMedPD project unites a highly experienced multidisciplinary consortium to improve understanding and detection of PD with mitochondrial dysfunction.

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    Encevo Group supports COVID-19 research at the LCSB

    As part of the collective effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Encevo is supporting the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) with a donation of 7,000 EUR.

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    Parkinson’s disease and the gut microbiome

    The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and its Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) collaborated with the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg on the elucidation of the functional implications of gut microbiome alterations associated with Parkinson’s disease. The findings, which were published in June 2020 in the prestigious journal BMC…

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    50 000 euros remis dans le cadre de la 8e édition d’Espoir en tête

    Organisée pour la 8e année consécutive, l’action Espoir en tête, initiée par les Rotary Clubs luxembourgeois, a permis de récolter 50 000 euros de dons en faveur de la recherche sur les maladies du cerveau au Luxembourg.

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    New method for inference of gene regulatory networks

    The team of Prof. Jorge Gonçalves at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine of the University of Luxembourg and their collaborators from Finland have developed a new method to infer gene regulatory networks in an easier and more accurate way than possible so far. This work has recently been published in the scientific journal Nature…

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    A « No Meetings Day » at the LCSB to boost staff’s productivity

    In a time when meetings are becoming more and more frequent, several studies suggest that they are disrupting people’s concentration reducing their productivity. At the time of the COVID-19 health crisis, with several people still working from home, telecommunication meetings are invading the agendas, making it more difficult to plan long tasks. This is the…

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    Le « Prix Jeunes Talents » du Rotary et le soutien aux maladies rares

    En début d’année, le Rotary Club de Dudelange a célébré la 1ère édition de son Prix Jeunes Talents et a lancé un appel aux dons pour soutenir le LCSB. Cet événement caritatif a permis de récolter 11 000 euros pour la recherche sur les maladies infantiles rares dans le groupe du Assistant Prof. Carole Linster.

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    New Full Professorship in Immunology & Genetics at LCSB and LIH

    Starting on 15 June, Prof. Dirk Brenner is appointed as joint Professor in Immunology & Genetics at both the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). This new position will reinforce the already very dynamic immunology research in Luxembourg and develop synergies between the…

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    ELIXIR-LU participates in “Beyond One Million Genomes” project

    A new ELIXIR-coordinated European project has been recently launched. Called “Beyond One Million Genomes” (B1MG) and funded by Horizon 2020, it aims to support the implementation of the 1+ Million Genomes initiative. This initiative is a declaration of cooperation “towards access to at least 1 million sequenced genomes in the EU by 2022”, to ultimately…

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