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A new treatment against river blindness: LIH contributed to clinical trials for moxidectin

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LIH’s Competence Centre for Methodology and Statistics has been involved in the Phase III trial of a new drug against the parasitic disease onchocerciasis.
June 12, 2018   In Our News  

Highlight of LIH’s Biomedical Research Lecture Series: Personalised medicine with patient involvement

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Since 2017, LIH’s Research Knowledge Transfer Office is running the Lecture series “Biomedical research – from discovery to patients”.
May 02, 2018   In Our News  

LIH develops artificial antibodies that boost immune defences against cancer

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Researchers from LIH have developed innovative artificial antibodies for cancer immunotherapy.
April 23, 2018   In Our News  

State visit: LIH was part of the Luxembourg delegation in France

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From 19th to 21st March 2018, Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg were invited to France for a state visit.
April 18, 2018   In Our News  

Efficient control of leukaemia with treatment by dual immune-checkpoint blockade

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Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is a haematological malignancy that originates in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow.
April 17, 2018   In Our News  

Associating frailty to cardiovascular disease and mortality

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Frailty is common in elderly people with cardiovascular disease and goes along with elevated mortality.
April 09, 2018   In Our News  

Funding from Lions Club Luxembourg for a research project on lung cancer

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Dr Victoria El Khoury and Prof Rolf Bjerkvig from LIH's Department of Oncology were granted funding by “Action LIONS Vaincre le Cancer”.
April 06, 2018   In Our News  

LIH researchers report the current knowledge on immune-metabolism in two prestigious reviews

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The Experimental and Molecular Immunology research group at LIH’s Department of Infection and Immunity recently issued two review articles in Cell press.
April 05, 2018   In Our News  

Creation of LuxGen: a sequencing centre for Luxembourg

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To accelerate biomedical research in Luxembourg, LIH and the “Laboratoire national de santé” (LNS) teamed up to create LuxGen, a national sequencing centre.
March 28, 2018   In Our News  

LIH Science Quest - the lay public on a scientific mission

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From 23rd to 25th February, LIH held a large science-promoting event, the first of its kind in Luxembourg.
March 27, 2018   In Our News  

Translating innovative research results for the benefit of society

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LIH has been successful with the submission of a proposal for the Knowledge & Innovation Transfer Support (KITS) funding scheme of the FNR.
March 21, 2018   In Our News  

The Cancer Foundation supports a research project on glioma cell invasion

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The Cancer Foundation (Fondation Cancer) funds a research project of the NorLux Neuro-Oncology Laboratory at LIH’s Department of Oncology.
March 12, 2018   In Our News  

Vision of Department Head Prof Laetitia Huiart: improve health and change lifestyles

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LIH has a new director to lead its Department of Population Health - a cornerstone of the institute and its development towards translational research.
March 02, 2018   In Our News  

LIH participated in the DREAM Challenges

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Bioinformaticians at LIH’s Department of Oncology took part in the Proteogenomics challenge organised by the DREAM Challenges.
February 28, 2018   In Our News  

Two LIH researchers on scientific leave share their experience

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Dr Tatiana Michel and Dr Danielle Perez Bercoff, both principal investigators, had the opportunity during 2016 and 2017 to benefit from a scientific leave.
February 21, 2018   In Our News  

FNR CORE funding for five research projects at LIH

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The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) supports multi-annual thematic research programmes with its central funding instrument CORE.
February 16, 2018   In Our News  

Multiannual framework agreement signed - new objectives for LIH

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On 25th January 2018, the new framework agreement for the period from 2018 to 2021 between LIH and the Luxembourg Government was signed.
February 13, 2018   In Our News  

Tumour-inducing capacity found in sleeping cancer cells

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A ground-breaking study involving LIH was published in Nature in December 2017.
February 08, 2018   In Our News  

First INTER FNR-DFG grant for LIH for a research project in oncology

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The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) committed funding to more than 20 bi- and multilateral projects via its INTER scheme in 2017.
February 06, 2018   In Our News  

Retrospective 2017: highpoints for LIH

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LIH made numerous important contributions to biomedical science in 2017.
February 01, 2018   In Our News