1A-B, rue Thomas Edison
L-1445 Strassen

Arnaud d’Agostini, Head of Marketing & Communication
communication@lih.lu

IMPORTANT: Please contact descom@uni.lu first if you want to apply or if you have any questions regarding the internships!

The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) is a public biomedical research organization focused on precision health and invested in becoming a leading reference in Europe for the translation of scientific excellence into meaningful benefits for patients.

LIH places the patient at the heart of all its activities, driven by a collective obligation towards society to use knowledge and technology arising from research on patient derived data to have a direct impact on people’s health. Its dedicated teams of multidisciplinary researchers strive for excellence, generating relevant knowledge linked to immune related diseases and cancer.

The institute embraces collaborations, disruptive technology and process innovation as unique opportunities to improve the application of diagnostics and therapeutics with the long-term goal of preventing disease.

LIH aims to perform research that transcends the boundaries of classical disease definition. Its translational and transversal research strategy, combined with the increasing appreciation of the role of the immune system in determining disease, has led LIH to focus on two priority areas, cancer and immunological disorders, with inflammation and immunity as the common thread.

The objective is to understand how distinct diseases are connected by shared immune-related mechanisms and to exploit this understanding towards the development of new diagnostics, innovative therapies and effective tools for personalised medicine, therefore putting the patient at the centre of LIH’s activities.

LIH strives for international research leadership, impact and innovation. Its research seeks to produce transformative and lasting solutions to make lives healthier, safer and more resilient by maintaining its excellence in interdisciplinary fundamental and translational research.

• Half day job shadowing (introduction to missions of Communication Unit, spend time with each team member to discover the different job profiles, daily activities and ongoing and upcoming projects)
• Choice of a mini-project by the trainee (e.g. communication writing, event organisation, set-up of outreach activity, set-up of social media campaign) depending on current projects of communication unit
• Implementation of mini-project supervised by a team member

• Working as a doctoral candidate in Luxembourg
• Previous science communication experience greatly appreciated
• Background: PhD studies in any field of biology or health (e.g. biomedical research)
• Language: Fluency in English

• 10 days on 2 consecutive weeks
• min. 50 h (5h/day), max. 80 h (8h/day)
• January-February, September-October
• Remote internships possible

CV and letter of motivation

2 per year