COVID-19 taskforce: Launch of national platform, FNR Call in the making

Dr Guy Berchem (GB) is an oncologist and Director of Research at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL), having also recently been appointed Associated Medical Director at LIH. As a “clinician scientist” with dual expertise in both research and healthcare, Dr Berchem is currently playing a crucial role in the setup of clinical studies on Covid-19 in Luxembourg, in close collaboration with the Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation Centre (CIEC) at LIH.

The Communication team at the Luxembourg Institute of Health is pleased to announce the launch of #LIHtellmewhy, an innovative initiative of catchy cartoons aiming to explain the COVID-19 situation to young children aged four to eight.

Since the first outbreak of the novel pneumonia (COVID-19) in Wuhan (China), a lot of conjectures have been formulated as to the origin of the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, which is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans.

Research Luxembourg, a joint initiative of the main players in Luxembourg's public research sector, is mobilising its knowledge and its human and material resources to help address the challenge of COVID-19.

The IT-X-HD unit is a newly-formed team dedicated to providing IT and data analysis solutions for researchers and principal investigators (PIs) at LIH. By joining our team, you will be involved in projects concerning public health research and various other support activities for our national partners, e.g. the Ministry of Health.   As the .Net Software Developer, you will be: Developing and maintaining IT solutions for the different projects submitted to the unit: epidemiological studies, national registries or any other projects; Working in close collaboration with the IT-X-HD team and the different support and platform teams to implement sustainable solutions; Proposing IT methods and IT solutions to implement team and business needs.

The IT-X-HD unit is a newly-formed team dedicated to providing IT and data analysis solutions for researchers and principal investigators (PIs) at LIH. By joining our team, you will be involved in projects concerning public health research and various other support activities for our national partners, e.g. the Ministry of Health.  As the IT BI Developer, you will be: Providing Ad Hoc reports and data analysis; Developing new or modifying existing data marts, and organizing data in data warehouse; Developing and modifying extraction, transformation and loading procedures (ETL) using SSIS packages; Proposing IT methods and IT solutions to implement team and business needs.

Immune evasion is a hallmark of cancer progression and represents a major hurdle to the design of effective therapeutic strategies. We recently uncovered a widely conserved mechanism by which resistant tumor cells respond to immune effector cell attack. The ACTIVASION project aims at exploring how this mechanism (i.e. fast remodeling of the tumor cell actin cytoskeleton) alters the structure and the function of the immunological synapse, the cell-cell interaction interface used by immune cells to recognize and kill target cancer cells.

The Data Manager & BI Specialist, under the direction of the IT BISManager, will ensure data organization, storage and analysis while always upholding agreed-upon security standards.  He/she will be responsible for overseeing the development and use of data systems, in order to deliver high quality solutions that span multiple technologies/platforms.