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| Prof. Michael Heneka is appointed Director of the LCSB |
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| Published on Wednesday, 02 June 2021 | |
| The Board of Governors of the University of Luxembourg has ratified, at an extraordinary meeting held on 31 May 2021, the appointment of Prof. Michael Heneka as Director of the Luxembourg Centre fo... |
| Ten University Projects Granted Early Access to MeluXina |
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| Published on Monday, 07 June 2021 | |
| Luxembourg’s first supercomputer MeluXina was officially launched on 7 June. MeluXina is a key element of Luxembourg’s data-driven innovation strategy, catering for the needs of companies, start-up... |
| Luxembourg paves the way for a new era of healthcare digitalisation |
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| Published on Thursday, 10 June 2021 | |
| Prof. Klucken joins the movement to make digitalisation part of every-day patient care |
| The University of Luxembourg mourns the loss of Pierre Hippert |
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| Published on Monday, 14 June 2021 | |
| Pierre Hippert, a long-lasting and avid supporter and friend of the University of Luxembourg died Thursday, 3 June, at the age of 92. |
| Science4Everyone: Electron Microscopy |
| Event date: Monday, 14 June 2021 |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 |
| Speaker: Sonja Fixemer |
| Using molecular biology to search for oil and gas |
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| Published on Monday, 26 July 2021 | |
| Within the framework of the EU project PROSPECTOMICS, five international partners have started to develop environmentally-friendly exploration methods. |
| European experts address the COVID-19 pandemic |
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| Published on Thursday, 12 August 2021 | |
| How should Europe deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in the future? Which strategies should be pursued and what specific risks should be considered? To answer these questions, researchers from the Max... |
| Combining sequencing approaches and omics to characterise microbiomes |
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| Published on Wednesday, 01 September 2021 | |
| DNA contains the blueprint for life, be it for mammals, plants or microorganisms. Thanks to current technologies, DNA can be extracted from virtually any environment, including mixed comm... |
| Launch of ZeroPM, a new European project focusing on water pollution |
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| Published on Monday, 06 September 2021 | |
| Persistent, 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... |
| Rudi Balling's Goodbye lecture series |
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| Event date: Thursday, 16 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: LCSB - BT2 - RIKEN conference room |
| Rudi Balling's Goodbye lecture series - Prof. David Leigh |
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| Event date: Thursday, 23 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: WebEx |
| Rudi Balling's Goodbye lecture series - Prof. Ortwin Renn |
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| Event date: Thursday, 30 September 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: WebEx |
| Rudi Balling's Goodbye lecture series - Dr Sara-Jane Dunn |
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| Event date: Thursday, 07 October 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: WebEx |
| New academic year 2021-2022 opens with optimism and hope |
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| Published on Friday, 08 October 2021 | |
| The University of Luxembourg held its Rentrée Académique 2021-2022 on 7 October on Belval Campus. |
| Visit of the Prime Minister to meet researchers working on COVID-19 |
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| Published on Thursday, 14 October 2021 | |
| On 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 diffe... |
| Rudi Balling's Goodbye lecture series - Prof. Edith Heard |
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| Event date: Thursday, 14 October 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:30 19:15 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) |
| International Metaproteomics Symposium - A fast-growing field |
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| Published on Tuesday, 26 October 2021 | |
| At 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 ev... |
| BY-COVID: A new EU project for pandemic preparedness |
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| Published on Friday, 29 October 2021 | |
| BeYond-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 c... |
| Launch of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases |
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| Published on Friday, 05 November 2021 | |
| A 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... |
| Science Festival 2021: participate in our workshops! |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 9:00 14-11 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster + Musée national d’histoire naturelle |
| Quality Day 2021 - Dr. Leonard Freedman |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 November 2021 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Speaker: Leonard Freedman |
| Scienteens Lab launches new workshops in computer science |
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| Published on Monday, 22 November 2021 | |
| The Scienteens Lab, an extracurricular learning centre of the University of Luxembourg, is organising its first workshops in computer science for secondary school pupils. Designed to be an interact... |
| ParkinsonNet Luxembourg celebrates 5 years |
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| Published on Friday, 26 November 2021 | |
| ParkinsonNet Luxembourg was established only 5 years ago and began full operations in 2018 with the first multidisciplinary professional training. Modelled after the highly effective Dutch programm... |
| Experimental and computational synergy – Promising COVID-19 results |
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| Published on Monday, 06 December 2021 | |
| An 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... |
| COVID-19 Disease Map: LCSB-coordinated effort proves to be effective |
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| Published on Monday, 13 December 2021 | |
| Since spring 2020, researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg have coordinated a group of 230 scientists with different background... |
| Scientific Symposium: How to boost research collaborations through open data exchange |
| Event date: Wednesday, 15 December 2021 |
| Hour: 8:30 11:35 |
| Place: online |
| Quilvest supports biomedical research at the University of Luxembourg |
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| Published on Thursday, 16 December 2021 | |
| The family-owned holding Quilvest SA has made a major donation towards the University of Luxembourg, and more specifically to the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), the University’s... |
| PhD Graduation Ceremony 2021 |
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| Published on Monday, 20 December 2021 | |
| In 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... |
| Microbiome and molecules - Novel methodologies for exploration |
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| Published on Tuesday, 21 December 2021 | |
| In an article recently published in the journal ISME Communications, researchers from the Systems Ecology group of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of L... |
| Michael Heneka takes up position of Director of the LCSB |
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| Published on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 | |
Prof. Michael Heneka, who was appointed as Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) in June 2021, has taken up his position at the start of 2022. He... |
| Science4Everyone - Communication via Extracellular Vesicles |
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| Event date: Monday, 21 February 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Miriam Fougeras |
| The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine opens its doors! |
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| Published on Wednesday, 23 February 2022 | |
| If you ever wondered what biomedical research is and what a laboratory looks like, then join us for a guided tour in our wet and dry labs! |
| CoVaLux research programme launched |
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| Published on Thursday, 24 February 2022 | |
| Research Luxembourg has announced the CoVaLux research programme (COVID-19, Vaccination & long-term health consequences of COVID-19 in Luxembourg), a comprehensive study aimed at addressing key... |
| Multiscale modelling of bacterial populations |
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| Event date: Thursday, 24 February 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 3.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Philip Pearce, invited by Dr. Luke Davis |
| Paul Wilmes elected Executive Board member of the Section des Sciences |
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| Published on Monday, 28 February 2022 | |
| On 9 February, Prof. Paul Wilmes, head of the Systems Ecology group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, was elected as a member of the executive... |
| Science4Everyone - Yeast: the model organism expert in pizza baking |
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| Event date: Monday, 07 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Chiara Romano |
| University participates in the “Chercheurs à l'École" 2022 Programme |
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| Published on Friday, 11 March 2022 | |
| The University of Luxembourg participates in the 2022 edition of "Chercheurs à l'Ecole” taking place this year from Monday 14 to Friday 18 March. |
| Midbrain single-cell sequencing to understand Parkinson’s Disease |
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| Published on Thursday, 17 March 2022 | |
| Researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, investigated... |
| Spinoffs Magrid Learning Solution and NIUM enter the market |
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| Published on Thursday, 17 March 2022 | |
| Two spin-offs of the University of Luxembourg, Magrid Learning Solution and NIUM, are about to launch their commercial offer, following the signature of licenses negotiated with the Office for Part... |
| Science4Everyone - Tales from the lab: Mini-organs on a dish |
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| Event date: Monday, 21 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Daniela Vega |
| Multiscale simulation approaches for probing biomolecular phase behaviour |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 29 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Jerelle A. Joseph Research Fellow, King’s College Cambridge, invited by Dr. Luke Davis |
| Controlling self-assembly by chemical fuels |
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| Event date: Thursday, 31 March 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Thomas Hermans, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| B or not to B: Insights in the regulation of anti-viral immunity |
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| Published on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 | |
| Researchers delve into the inner workings of the antibody immune response, finding key differences in the metabolism of two closely related immune cell subsets. |
| The why behind mild COVID-19 |
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| Published on Thursday, 21 April 2022 | |
All-Luxembourg study helps to anticipate a personal COVID-19 health trajectoryFrom the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of published studies have focused on severe C... |
| Climate warming alters glacier-fed stream ecosystems worldwide |
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| Published on Wednesday, 27 April 2022 | |
| According to two recent studies carried out as part of the Vanishing Glaciers Project, the ecosystems of glacier-fed streams are undergoing profound change around the world. That could have major r... |
| Science4Everyone - Organs-on-chip: What are they and why we want to use them |
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| Event date: Monday, 02 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 16-05 | 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Gemma Gomez Giro |
| Antibiotics impact gut microbiome and antimicrobial resistance |
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| Published on Tuesday, 03 May 2022 | |
| Antibiotics are commonly used to treat infections and ensure the safety of surgical procedures. However, their overuse has led to the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria, resulting in an “ar... |
| The Chemical Origins of Biological Metabolism |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 04 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.04 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Prof. Joseph Moran, invited by Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito |
| Science Workshops at the Nuit de la Culture 2022 |
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| Event date: Saturday, 14 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 18:30 21:30 | |
| Place: Centre Omnisports Henri Schmitz Hall 2 34 Bd Hubert Clément L-4064 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Science4Everyone - Mind-Gut Connection |
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| Event date: Monday, 16 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Gemma Gomez Giro |
| Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. med. Jochen Klucken |
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| Event date: Thursday, 19 May 2022 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) Auditorium 3.330 | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Jochen Klucken |
| The first Donor of the University of Luxembourg |
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| Published on Friday, 27 May 2022 | |
| The University commemorates the first anniversary of the death of its long-time supporter and friend, Mr Pierre Hippert. |
| Science4Everyone - Drug Screening: From the lab to the patient |
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| Event date: Friday, 03 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Dr. Bruno Dos Santos Rodrigues |
| International team discovers endogenous anti-inflammatory substance |
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| Published on Thursday, 09 June 2022 | |
| A research team led by Prof. Karsten Hiller of the Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, BRICS, in collaboration with scientists at the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the Uni... |
| Surprising Connection between Immune Balance, Ageing and Parkinson’s |
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| Published on Friday, 10 June 2022 | |
| Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) experts together with collaborators from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg have begun to unravel the complex... |
| Science4Everyone - Study participant involvement |
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| Event date: Monday, 13 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Anne-Marie Hanff |
| Clinical research on Innovative Healthcare: Integrated Care in Parkinson´s Disease - Lessons from Germany |
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| Event date: Thursday, 16 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Black Box, Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH) 11, porte des Sciences 4366 Esch-sur-Alzette | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Tobias Warnecke and Carina Lummer |
| Global biodiversity framework falls short on chemicals |
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| Published on Friday, 17 June 2022 | |
| An international group of scientists are highlighting the broad impacts of chemical pollution on ecosystems to decision makers as negotiations continue on a new international agreement to protect b... |
| Inaugural Lecture Associate Prof. Evan Williams |
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| Event date: Monday, 20 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) Auditorium 3.330 (3rd floor) | |
| Speaker: Associate Prof. Evan Williams |
| Digital health and digital biomarkers: Achieving successful academia-industry collaborations in digital health |
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| Event date: Monday, 20 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Black Box, Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Susan Louise Moore |
| Science4Everyone - A visit at the Parkinson's Research Clinic |
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| Event date: Monday, 27 June 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:00 12:30 | |
| Speaker: Laure Pauly |
| Motility-induced phase separation |
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| Event date: Monday, 18 July 2022 | |
| Hour: 14:00 16:00 | |
| Place: Campus Limpertsberg, Bâtiment des Sciences, BS 0.03 | |
| Speaker: Talk by Dr. Alexandre Solon, LPTMC, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, France, invited by Professor Etienne FODOR |
| 19 PhD positions in immunology and chronic inflammation – Apply now! |
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| Published on Tuesday, 16 August 2022 | |
| In the framework of the NextImmune2 Doctoral Training Unit, the University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) are recruiting 19 PhD students to work on research projects foc... |
| The Expobiome Map – Exploring the role of microbiome-derived molecules |
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| Published on Friday, 09 September 2022 | |
| The human microbiome, the collection of microorganisms that live in and on our body, is intricately connected to our health. Recent studies have shown that these microbial communities are implicate... |
| Multiple Types of Long COVID Identified for the First Time |
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| Published on Wednesday, 14 September 2022 | |
| All-Luxembourg study finds that Long COVID is not just a single disease but can take a variety of forms with different symptoms and potential treatments. |
| A new survey to detect risk factors for Parkinson’s disease |
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| Published on Monday, 26 September 2022 | |
| The National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD) is launching an online survey addressed to residents in Luxembourg and the Greater Region who are over 50 and not diag... |
| Clinical research on Innovative Healthcare: Multiple Sclerosis Management 4.0: MS digital twin |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 27 September 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), TTM meeting room, | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tjalf Ziemssen |
| Lecture series: Digital health and digital biomarkers - Digital health applications in MS: A review of the first 10 years |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 04 October 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: WebEx: https://tinyurl.com/digibio2 | |
| Speaker: Associate Prof. Riley Bove, MD MSc; UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences |
| Inaugural Lecture LCSB Director Prof. Heneka |
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| Event date: Monday, 17 October 2022 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) Auditorium 3.520 (3rd floor) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr Michael Heneka |
| Clinical research on Innovative Healthcare: Advances in targeted motor circuit interventions for movement disorders |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 18 October 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Centre Hospitalier du Luxembourg (CHL) - Amphitheatre | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jens Volkmann |
| FNR awards 2022 – LCSB researchers in the spotlight |
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| Published on Friday, 21 October 2022 | |
| On 20 October, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) presented the FNR Awards 2022 to reward exceptional contributions to science and science communication in Luxembourg. During the cere... |
| European Digital Medicine Conference Luxembourg 2022 |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 26 October 2022 | |
| Hour: 12:30 27-10 | 17:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) Auditorium 3.500 (3rd floor) |
| Toward European roadmap for the evaluation of digital medical devices |
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| Published on Friday, 28 October 2022 | |
| The World Health Organisation currently lists more than 2 million devices with a medical purpose. These innovative health technologies are transforming the medical landscape. They have the potentia... |
| Neurodegeneration Lecture Series: Protective effects of synaptic stimulation in Alzheimer disease and taupathies |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 08 November 2022 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Davide Tampellini |
| Four University professors on the Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list |
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| Published on Friday, 18 November 2022 | |
| Professors Stéphane Bordas, Michael Heneka, Alexandre Tkatchenko, and Paul Wilmes have been ranked among the “Highly Cited Researchers” 2022 list by Clarivate. |
| Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dirk Brenner |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 23 November 2022 | |
| Hour: 17:00 18:00 | |
| Place: Maison du Savoir (MSA) Auditorium 3.330 (3rd floor) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Dirk Brenner |
| Researchers' Days 2022 |
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| Event date: Friday, 25 November 2022 | |
| Hour: 8:30 26-11 | 19:00 | |
| Place: Rockhal |
| LCSB booth draws attention at the Researchers’ Days |
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| Published on Monday, 28 November 2022 | |
| On 25-26 November, the LCSB participated in the Researchers’ Days 2022 with a booth dedicated to microorganisms and how we study them. Organised by the Systems Ecology group, the activities were a... |
| Construction of a new building for biomedical research |
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| Published on Tuesday, 29 November 2022 | |
| On Tuesday, 29 November 2022, Claude Meisch, Minister of Research and Higher Education, and Simone Asselborn-Bintz, Mayor of Sanem, broke ground for the new Biotech 3 building on Campus Belval, in... |
| Neurodegeneration Lecture Series: Clearance of neurotoxic peptides across the blood brain barrier in Alzheimer’s Disease models |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 29 November 2022 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Claus Pietrzik |
| Clinical research on Innovative Healthcare: Adaptive Platform Trials: The Clinical Trial of the Future |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 06 December 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Centre Hospitalier du Luxembourg (CHL) Amphitheatre | |
| Speaker: Dr Ariel Dora Stern |
| PARK-QC Seminar |
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| Event date: Thursday, 08 December 2022 | |
| Hour: 10:30 12:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room |
| FNR PEARL Chair on Alzheimer’s disease for Prof. Michael Heneka |
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| Published on Friday, 09 December 2022 | |
| The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has awarded an FNR PEARL Chair to the director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg for a research pro... |
| Lecture Series: Digital health and digital biomarkers - Digital Biomarkers in Precision Neurology |
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| Event date: Monday, 12 December 2022 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Prof. Holger Fröhlich |
| Gaining unprecedented view of small molecules by machine learning |
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| Published on Monday, 19 December 2022 | |
| A new tool to identify small molecules offers benefits for diagnostics, drug discovery and fundamental research. |
| How damaged cells inhibit muscle regeneration over lifetime |
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| Published on Monday, 19 December 2022 | |
| Humans have a limited capacity for self-regeneration of tissues and organs but they do keep a pool of stem cells throughout their life that can self-renew and differentiate into specific cell types... |
| Open Science for water research |
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| Published on Thursday, 19 January 2023 | |
| For the launch of the new scientific journal Nature Water, researchers Emma and Stan Schymanski contributed an article about the future of water research. This opinion paper focuses on... |
| Precision Medicine in Parkinson’s disease: past lessons and conquering new frontiers |
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| Event date: Thursday, 26 January 2023 | |
| Hour: 9:00 27-01 | 2:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval, MSA |
| Lecture Series One Earth: Impacts and countermeasures to global change and effects on the biosphere |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 01 February 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:00 13:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr. Aurélie Cébron, Research Scientist, CNRS, LIEC UMR 7360 Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Université de Lorraine, France |
| WHO study: Luxembourg has lowest excess mortality during pandemic |
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| Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2023 | |
| Luxembourg’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Biological Embedding of Experience |
| Event date: Wednesday, 08 February 2023 |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room - Campus Belval |
| Speaker: Prof. Robert Kumsta |
| Lecture Series: Digital health and digital biomarkers - Digital Phenotyping and Mental Health Research and Clinical Applications |
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| Event date: Monday, 20 February 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Speaker: Prof John Torous; Lucy Gray |
| Rare disease day 2023: Surprises & challenges in rare disease research |
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| Published on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 | |
| On Rare Disease Day 2023, Prof. Carole Linster from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg reflects on her team’s work on metabolite repair disorders,... |
| Shifts in human gut microbiome due to COVID-19 |
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| Published on Thursday, 09 March 2023 | |
COVID-19, caused by an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020. While some peopl... |
| University Open Day - The LCSB opens the doors of its labs! |
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| Published on Friday, 10 March 2023 | |
| On 18 March, the University of Luxembourg organises its yearly Open Day, during which prospective students, parents and the general public can explore the campus. It will be the perfect opportunity... |
| Successful launch of BRAINS experiment into space |
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| Published on Wednesday, 15 March 2023 | |
Midbrain organoids from the interdisciplinary BRAINS project have successfully launched towards the International Space Station. After more than a year of intense preparati... |
| FNR video featuring PEARL Chair Prof. Jochen Klucken |
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| Published on Friday, 17 March 2023 | |
| The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) has just launched a new video showcasing the work of the Digital Medicine group, headed by FNR PEARL Chair Prof. Jochen Klucken. The group... |
| University Open Day |
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| Event date: Saturday, 18 March 2023 | |
| Hour: 9:30 16:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval |
| The role of epigenetic control and cell identity maintenance in inflamm-aging and neurodegeneration |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 21 March 2023 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval | House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing, L-4367 Belvaux RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Jenny Russ |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - Multimodal Data Integration in Digital Health for Rare Genetic Diseases |
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| Event date: Friday, 24 March 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Anaïs Baudot |
| COVID-19 Task Force awarded the 2022 Science for Society Prize |
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| Published on Wednesday, 29 March 2023 | |
| The 2022 Science for Society Prize, an initiative of the Science for Society Foundation, under the aegis of Fondation de Luxembourg, has been awarded to the Research Luxembourg COVID-19 Task Force,... |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trails: Boon or Bane? |
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| Event date: Monday, 03 April 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2) - RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Thanneer Malai Perumal |
| Lecture Series One Earth: Impacts and countermeasures to global change and effects on the biosphere |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 05 April 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:00 13:30 | |
| Place: Ellipse Room - Maison du Livre - Luxembourg Learning Centre (LLC) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Piotr Oleskowicz-Popiel, Research Scientist, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland |
| Uncovering cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration one image at a time |
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| Event date: Thursday, 20 April 2023 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval | House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing, L-4367 Belvaux RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Jaime Grutzendler |
| Differentiating typical and atypical parkinsonism early in disease |
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| Published on Tuesday, 25 April 2023 | |
The new international DEEPEN-iRBD study aims to model the progression of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) towards typical or atypical forms of parkinsonism. This aims to... |
| Clinnova to Launch Precision Medicine Initiative Across Europe |
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| Published on Thursday, 27 April 2023 | |
| Inaugurating a new initiative to foster AI-driven precision medicine via data federation, standardisation, and interoperability. |
| Uni Talk - Les filles dans la tech |
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| Event date: Thursday, 27 April 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:30 13:30 | |
| Place: En ligne (WebEx) - Webinaire en français |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - A mixed-method approach for creating digital health ontology |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 02 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 | |
| Place: Online lecture | |
| Speaker: Prof. Frada Burstein |
| THE ROLE OF BRAIN BORDERS IN AD |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 02 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 11:00 12:00 | |
| Place: Campus Belval | House of Biomedicine II 6, avenue du Swing, L-4367 Belvaux RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr Jonathan Kipnis |
| Lecture Series One Earth: Impacts and countermeasures to global change and effects on the biosphere |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 03 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 12:00 13:30 | |
| Place: Ellipse Room - Maison du Livre - Luxembourg Learning Centre (LLC) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Tim LENTON |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - The role of Digital Twins in Health |
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| Event date: Friday, 05 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Prof. Sofia Scataglini |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - Digital Health Solutions - The Patient Perspective |
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| Event date: Monday, 08 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Dr. Valerie Storms |
| The 7th Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation |
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| Event date: Thursday, 11 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 8:00 13-05 | 17:00 | |
| Place: MSA |
| Resounding Success for 7th Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation |
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| Published on Wednesday, 17 May 2023 | |
From 11-13 May, the event united over 200 global researchers and students in neuroinflammation, fostering collaboration and discussing cutting-edge advancements on the hist... |
| Prof Jorge Goncalves Wins Hubei Province Chime Bell Award |
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| Published on Wednesday, 17 May 2023 | |
| Prof. Jorge Gonçalves received the Hubei Province Chime Bell Award in recognition of his outstanding academic contributions in the fields of modelling and machine learning. The award, initiated in... |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Arne Küderle |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - Investigating Mobile Health for Development |
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| Event date: Monday, 22 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Online: WebEx | |
| Speaker: Dr. Maike Greve |
| Guest Speaker Lecture - Exploring synaptic and mitophagic defects in patients with Parkinson’s disease |
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| Event date: Thursday, 25 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 10:00 11:30 | |
| Place: Campus Belval Biotech II (BT2), RIKEN room | |
| Speaker: Prof. Wim Vandenberghe |
| Lecture Series: Digital Health and Digital Biomarkers - AI for Digital Health Equity: challenges and opportunities |
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| Event date: Friday, 26 May 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:00 | |
| Place: Online: WebEx | |
| Speaker: Prof. Sarah Khalid |
| Ground-breaking discovery for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases |
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| Published on Tuesday, 30 May 2023 | |
| An international team consisting of researchers from Japan and Luxembourg show for the first time that pathological forms of the alpha-synuclein protein present in the blood of patients can be used... |
| Lecture Series One Earth: Impacts and countermeasures to global change and effects on the biosphere |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 07 June 2023 | |
| Hour: 15:30 17:30 | |
| Place: Ellipse Room - Maison du Livre - Luxembourg Learning Centre (LLC) | |
| Speaker: Prof. Jack Gilbert |
| Clinical research on Innovative Healthcare: Current State of Nursing Care Situation of People with Parkinson's Disease in Germany |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 13 June 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) TTM room, 1st floor | |
| Speaker: Prof. Martin Südmeyer & Dr Odette Fründt |
| Lecture Series on Neurodegeneration - Tubes, Channels and Iron: Intercellular Connectivity, Glymphatic Clearance and Iron Accumulation in Parkinson’s Disease |
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| Event date: Wednesday, 14 June 2023 | |
| Hour: 10:00 11:00 | |
| Place: BT2 - RIKEN room (ground floor) | |
| Speaker: Dr Dean Pountney |
| Guest Speaker Lecture - At the Nexus of Genes, Aging, and Environment: Understanding Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Regulation in Health and Disease |
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| Event date: Tuesday, 27 June 2023 | |
| Hour: 16:00 17:30 | |
| Place: Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) TTM room, 1st floor | |
| Speaker: Prof. Julia Schulze-Hentrich |
| EIT Health Digital Medical Devices Summer School |
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| Event date: Monday, 10 July 2023 | |
| Hour: 9:00 21-07 | 14:00 | |
| Place: 10-14 July - Maison du Savoir, University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval, Luxembourg | 17-21 July - IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain |
