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| LCSB wins 8 research and innovation prizes in one week |
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| Published on Tuesday, 07 July 2015 | |
| Entrepreneurs and scientist presented a plethora of innovative ideas in Luxembourg’s latest idea and business plan competitions “Mind & Market” and “Falling Walls” earlier this week. |
| Teaming up for the brain and its diseases - Launch of the Luxembourg Brain Council |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 July 2015 | |
| Brain diseases affect one in four people in Luxembourg1 and still too often effective treatments let alone a cure are not available. In addition, the costs of brain diseases for society... |
| Which are the most important functional genes in an ecosystem? |
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| Published on Monday, 20 July 2015 | |
| Microbial ecosystems such as biological wastewater treatment plants and the human gastrointestinal tract are home to a vast diversity of bacterial species. Scientists of the Luxembourg Centre for S... |
| Life Sciences PhD Days 2015 |
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| Event date: Monday, 21 September 2015 | |
| Hour: 8:30 22-09 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir GPS : 49.504839 | 5.948214 | |
| Speaker: Miguel Andrad and Hilal Lashuel |
| Scienteens Lab awarded for Outstanding Promotion of Science to the Public |
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| Published on Tuesday, 20 October 2015 | |
| During its award ceremony on 16 October 2015, the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) has awarded its prize for “Outstanding promotion of science to the public” to the “Scienteens Lab – De Labo fi... |
| POST Luxembourg takes a share in an LCSB spin-off |
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| Published on Thursday, 22 October 2015 | |
| POST Luxembourg has taken a share in a company recently founded by scientists of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg. |
| Computational modeling of the nutritional influence on health |
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| Event date: Thursday, 29 October 2015 | |
| Hour: 18:00 20:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval • Biotech 2 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ines Thiele |
| Computational models to sort out the chaos |
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| Published on Tuesday, 03 November 2015 | |
| Scientists of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a method for analysing the genome of cancer cells more precisely than ever before. |
| Big Data in Health Care: We need a joint approach |
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| Published on Friday, 06 November 2015 | |
| Biomedical research aims to decipher the molecular causes of diseases to subsequently enable early diagnosis and personalised medicine. More and more data are being generated to reach that goal. Ho... |
| 10th Science Festival Luxembourg |
| Event date: Thursday, 12 November 2015 |
| Hour: 9:00 15-11 | 18:00 |
| Place: Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster and Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxemburg-Grund |
| HRH Princess Léa of Belgium visits the University |
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| Published on Friday, 27 November 2015 | |
| On 25 November 2015, HRH Princess Léa of Belgium visited the University of Luxembourg together with a diplomatic, economic and academic delegation. |
| LCSB coordinates European project on Parkinson’s disease research |
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| Published on Wednesday, 02 December 2015 | |
| The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg is coordinating a European Union project for research into new active compounds against Parkinson’s disease (PD)... |
| Rare diseases: De novo mutation leading to Fanconi Anemia identified |
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| Published on Tuesday, 22 December 2015 | |
| An international team of researchers has established the cause of rare syndrome consistent with Fanconi Anemia: a de novo mutation in a so called RAD51 gene, which is responsible for repairing dama... |
| Formation and degradation of the oncometabolite D-2-hydroxyglutarate |
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| Published on Thursday, 28 January 2016 | |
| Enzymes are classically thought to catalyze chemical reactions highly specifically. |
| Parkinson's disease: a study centre is now on wheels |
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| Published on Monday, 15 February 2016 | |
| Thanks to a generous donation from the André et Henriette Losch Foundation, in future it will be easier for Parkinson's patients to participate in the Luxembourg Parkinson's study. Today, André Los... |
| Jeudis des sciences: Wissenschaft hautnah erleben |
| Event date: Thursday, 25 February 2016 |
| Hour: 17:30 19:00 |
| Place: Campus Kirchberg, Hörsaal B02 |
| New approaches for Parkinson's treatment? |
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| Published on Wednesday, 02 March 2016 | |
| Researchers at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg and partners in Constance, Munich and Bochum are studying the causes of premature ageing of neuro... |
| Open Day at the University of Luxembourg |
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| Published on Wednesday, 09 March 2016 | |
| The countdown is on: on Saturday, 19 March 2016, the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg in Esch-sur-Alzette is opening its doors from 09.00 to 16.00 and inviting prospective students, pa... |
| Guided tours of the LCSB during the UL Open Day in Belval |
| Event date: Saturday, 19 March 2016 |
| Hour: 9:00 16:00 |
| Place: Maison du Savoir - Campus Belval |
| Jens Schwamborn leads international consortium on Parkinson’s disease |
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| Published on Monday, 21 March 2016 | |
| In a new international research project, funded by the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) with 1.5 Mio Euro, researchers from Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, The Netherlan... |
| LCSB Researchers breaking researcher stereotypes in high schools |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 March 2016 | |
| From 14 to 18 March, 6 scientists from the LCSB took part in the 6th edition of the “Chercheurs à l’école”. The FNR is organising this event yearly with the aim to present the students the life of... |
| LCSB researchers refute textbook knowledge |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 March 2016 | |
| What happens when macrophage immune cells are activated in the course of an inflammation to combat pathogens such as bacteria or viruses? Researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicin... |
| André Losch, supporter and friend of the University, has passed away |
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| Published on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 | |
| The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) mourns the loss of André Losch, an important Luxembourg figure in business and philanthropy — and a passionate supporter of the University of Lu... |
| Economic mission to Finland |
| Event date: Monday, 09 May 2016 |
| Hour: 17:00 12-05 | 17:00 |
| Gut model HuMiX works like the real thing |
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| Published on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 | |
| One of the most complex human organs is the digestive tract: Here, the body comes into contact with all manner of diet-derived compounds and with countless bacteria. Scientists from the Luxembourg... |
| International Clinical Trials' Day |
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| Event date: Friday, 27 May 2016 | |
| Hour: 18:00 21:00 | |
| Place: Utopolis Belval |
| PhD Retreat: Life after a PhD |
| Event date: Tuesday, 21 June 2016 |
| Hour: 9:00 17:00 |
| Place: Abbaye de Neumünster |
| A new plasma quality control assay for metabolomics |
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| Published on Friday, 24 June 2016 | |
| Researchers from IBBL (Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg) and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have investigated the impact of variations in tempe... |
| Art2Cure 2016 |
| Event date: Saturday, 25 June 2016 |
| Hour: 15:00 09-09 | 19:00 |
| Place: Galerie L'Indépendance of the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) |
| Art for a good cause |
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| Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 | |
| Paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and prints by 28 Luxembourgish and international artists have been on display at “Galerie l’Indépendance” at the Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL... |
| "Ordre de Mérite" for Prof. Rudi Balling |
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| Published on Monday, 27 June 2016 | |
| Prof. Rudi Balling, director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), was bestowed the Order of Merit by Grand Duke Henri for his contribution to research. |
| PhD retreat: Life after PhD |
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| Published on Tuesday, 28 June 2016 | |
| What could your life look like after your PhD, if you chose to pursue a career outside of academia? And how to best plan your next career steps? These and other questions related to career and pers... |
| ATTRACT Fellow Prof Hiller to take up prestigious role in Germany |
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| Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2016 | |
| Outgoing FNR ATTRACT Fellow Prof Karsten Hiller may be leaving Luxembourg to take on a new challenge, but his relationship with the Grand Duchy is far from over. |
| Launch of the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology |
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| Published on Thursday, 14 July 2016 | |
| Microorganisms, despite their notorious reputation as disease-causing agents, play essential roles in our daily lives and are integral to the maintenance of human health. Startling is the fact that... |
| Luxembourg becomes European data hub in biomedicine |
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| Published on Thursday, 28 July 2016 | |
| Sciences such as biology and biomedicine are generating gigantic amounts of research data from the analysis of genomes and gene products. Often, however, these data are only kept in one place, maki... |
| Last Chance to enroll for Extraordinary Seminar |
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| Published on Thursday, 25 August 2016 | |
| This event about personal data within the financial, insurance and medical sectors, organised by the “Union Internationale des Avocats” (UIA), will take place on the 30 September and the 1st Octobe... |
| Call for Proposals for PMC Fund |
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| Published on Friday, 26 August 2016 | |
| After a successful trial for the PMC PUMP PRIME Fund for 2015/2016, the Personalised Medicine Consortium (PMC) is launching the 2017 Call for proposals. |
| LCSB welcomes Parliamentary Friendship League Japan-Luxembourg |
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| Published on Friday, 09 September 2016 | |
| Members of the Parliamentary Friendship League Japan-Luxembourg have visited the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine of the University of Luxembourg on 5 September 2016. Founded in 1987, this... |
| University of Luxembourg among the 180 best universities in the world |
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| Published on Wednesday, 21 September 2016 | |
| The University of Luxembourg climbed to position 178 among the best universities in the world in the latest edition of the renowned “Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings”, improvi... |
| Workshop : Personal data protection within the financial, insurance and medical sectors |
| Event date: Thursday, 29 September 2016 |
| Hour: 18:00 02-10 | 10:00 |
| The quest for cell fate determinants |
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| Published on Friday, 30 September 2016 | |
| Stem cells generate different types of cell—that much is known. But what factors decide which way a stem cell will differentiate? This is one of the key questions that researchers led by Professor... |
| 11th Annual Meeting of the GEoPD Consortium & 3rd International Parkinson´s Disease Symposium |
| Event date: Thursday, 06 October 2016 |
| Hour: 8:00 20:00 |
| Place: Maison du Savoir |
| Weitverbreitete Missverständnisse über die Evolution |
| Event date: Monday, 10 October 2016 |
| Hour: 19:30 21:00 |
| Place: Room 3.530, Maison du Savoir |
| Sick or healthy? Bacterial metabolism tells us which – and why |
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| Published on Tuesday, 11 October 2016 | |
| The human gut is a complex ecosystem: Countless bacteria colonise it and help us to digest our food. Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxemb... |
| Prime Minister Xavier Bettel visits the LCSB |
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| Published on Tuesday, 11 October 2016 | |
| On September 29 2016, Prime Minister Xavier Bettel visited the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine of the University of Luxembourg, on Campus Belval. |
| Mathematical Modelling of Biochemical Networks |
| Event date: Tuesday, 25 October 2016 |
| Hour: 13:30 17:30 |
| Place: Conference room, LCSB BT2 |
| Lush Young Researcher Prize awarded to HuMiX researcher |
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| Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2016 | |
| Last Friday, Lush, the British cosmetic company, awarded its Young Researcher Prize to Dr Pranjul Shah for HuMiX, an “organ-on-chip” technology he co-developed while a postdoc in the Eco-Systems Bi... |
| Microfluidics |
| Event date: Wednesday, 23 November 2016 |
| Hour: 13:00 15:00 |
| Place: Conference room, LCSB BT2 |
| Laboratory Automation |
| Event date: Wednesday, 23 November 2016 |
| Hour: 15:00 16:45 |
| Place: Conference room, LCSB BT2 |
| Official inauguration of the Scienteens Lab on Belval Campus |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 November 2016 | |
| Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, patroness of the “Scienteens Lab - De Labo fir Jonker”, has officially inaugurated the new laboratory and disciplines offered to high-... |
| Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation visits the University |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 November 2016 | |
| On 24 November 2016, Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, visited the University of Luxembourg. |
| Life Sciences PhD Days 2016 |
| Event date: Thursday, 24 November 2016 |
| Hour: 8:30 25-11 | 18:00 |
| Place: Room 3.530, Maison du Savoir |
| Digital microbes for munching yourself healthy |
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| Published on Wednesday, 30 November 2016 | |
| Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only tremendously important to our health—they are al... |
| Researchers’ Days 2016 |
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| Published on Wednesday, 07 December 2016 | |
| On 2 and 3 December 2016, Rockhal became a big research lab, with more than 20 interactive workshops for both children and adults! |
| microGUT awarded at the European Venture Summit |
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| Published on Tuesday, 20 December 2016 | |
| microGUT promoting startup - OrgaMime - was among the 8 emerging Life Sciences companies awarded during the 2016 |
| Researchers find a potential target for anti-Alzheimer treatments |
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| Published on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 | |
| Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have identified a gene that may provide a new starting point for developing treatments for Alzheim... |
| Bioinformatics Core joins Project SYSCID |
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| Published on Wednesday, 18 January 2017 | |
| The international consortium of the new European research project SYSCID (“A systems medicine approach to chronic inflammatory disease“) aims to develop a personalised medicine approach for inflamm... |
| Prof. Michel Mittelbronn to implement neuropathology in Luxembourg |
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| Published on Monday, 23 January 2017 | |
| Beginning of January 2017, renowned neuropathologist Professor Dr. Michel Mittelbronn joined the Laboratoire national de santé (LNS) in a joint appointment with the Luxembourg Institute of Health (... |
| Genomic Medicine |
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| Event date: Monday, 23 January 2017 | |
| Hour: 19:30 20:30 | |
| Place: Maison du savoir, Salle 3.530, Université de Luxembourg à Esch-Belval | |
| Speaker: Sir John Burn, Professor of Clinical Genetics, Newcastle University |
| Biological experiments become transparent – anywhere, any time |
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| Published on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 | |
| Biological experiments are generating increasingly large and complex sets of data. This has made it difficult to reproduce experiments at other research laboratories in order to confirm – or refute... |
| Three VIP participants joined the Luxembourg Parkinson Study |
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| Published on Monday, 20 February 2017 | |
| On February 10, Prof. Dr Rainer Klump, the President of the University of Luxembourg, Dr Marc Schiltz, the Secretary General of the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) and Prof. Dr Rudi Balling, t... |
| 2nd Hands-on Light Microscopy Workshop |
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| Event date: Monday, 20 February 2017 | |
| Hour: 9:00 24-02 | 16:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir Université du Luxembourg 2, avenue de l'Université L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Excellent grades for the LCSB in external evaluation |
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| Published on Wednesday, 08 March 2017 | |
| The Minister for Higher Education and Research, Marc Hansen, presented the results of the external evaluation of the University of Luxembourg at a press conference on Monday, 28 February 2017 in th... |
| Biomedical research supported by Rotary |
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| Published on Friday, 10 March 2017 | |
| The Rotary Clubs from Luxembourg have successfully supported brain research for years now. In order to further endorse biomedical research, the Rotary Clubs from Luxembourg, in collaboration with t... |
| Luxembourg researchers decipher how the body controls stem cells |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 March 2017 | |
| Stem cells are unspecialised cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, scientists only partially understand how the body controls the fate of these all-rounde... |
| New edition of Espoir-en-tête® features Disney’s Beauty and the Beast |
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| Event date: Sunday, 19 March 2017 | |
| Hour: 10:30 13:00 |
| How to Build a Billion Dollar Company |
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| Event date: Monday, 27 March 2017 | |
| Hour: 14:30 15:30 | |
| Place: Room n°3.110, Maison du Savoir, Campus Belval |
| Bachelor programme in medicine to be established |
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| Published on Thursday, 30 March 2017 | |
| The government has decided to establish new medical training programmes in Luxembourg within the next years. |
| LCSB start-up ITTM and Abbvie collaborate on Alzheimer’s disease map |
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| Published on Wednesday, 05 April 2017 | |
| ITTM S.A. and AbbVie Germany, announced yesterday that they signed a two-year agreement to build a comprehensive up-to-date knowledge map for Alzheimer’s Disease. |
| Brain tissue from a petri dish |
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| Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 | |
| The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of course, for ethical reasons, it is extremely difficult to do scientific experiments on it – ones that could help us to u... |
| Michael J Fox Foundation visits Luxembourg |
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| Published on Thursday, 11 May 2017 | |
| Members of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) visited the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, the Integrated Biobank of Luxe... |
| Luxembourg Microbiology Day |
| Event date: Thursday, 11 May 2017 |
| Hour: 13:00 18:00 |
| Place: Laboratoire National de Santé |
| Nobel Turing Challenge - Talk of Prof. Hiroaki Kitano |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 May 2017 | |
| Hour: 19:30 20:30 | |
| Place: Room 3.500, Maison du Savoir, Campus Belval |
| First Luxembourg Microbiology Day |
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| Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 | |
| On 11 May, the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology (LSfM) organised its first national conference, the “1st Luxembourg Microbiology Day”. |
| Lancement du projet de recherche SYS-T-Act |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 May 2017 | |
| Le fardeau des allergies ne cesse de s’alourdir, touchant un nombre croissant de personnes au Luxembourg et dans le monde. |
| Erythritol – the sweetener produced by our body |
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| Published on Thursday, 18 May 2017 | |
| An international research team where researchers of the TU Braunschweig were involved identified the sugar alcohol erythritol to be a biomarker for developing adiposity. No such biomarker was known... |
| New ITTM partnership for secure genomic analysis in Europe |
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| Published on Friday, 26 May 2017 | |
| Fabric Genomics, a global computational genomics company offering data analysis and clinical reporting tools, announced today that it has partnered with data management company ITTM S.A. (Informati... |
| LuxCLIN conference “eClinical Research: getting virtual and personal” |
| Event date: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 |
| Hour: 8:15 31-05 | 20:00 |
| Place: Centre Hospitalier Luxembourg (CHL) Amphithéâtre |
| BTech and HuMiX awarded at Luxembourg Healthcare Summit |
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| Published on Friday, 16 June 2017 | |
| First held in 2014, the Luxembourg Healthcare Summit is a central event for idea exchange and networking for healthcare professionals and researchers in the country and beyond. More than 100 partic... |
| Prof Luonan Chen - Hunt for the tipping points of diseases by dynamic network biomarkers |
| Event date: Monday, 19 June 2017 |
| Hour: 16:00 18:30 |
| Place: House of Biomedicine II |
| Luxembourg Parkinson Study celebrates 2nd birthday |
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| Event date: Friday, 30 June 2017 | |
| Hour: 14:00 17:00 |
| Impact of big data analytics on healthcare |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 04 October 2017 | |
| Hour: 8:00 05-10 | 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir |
