News
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Lecture Recordings Part II: Cornelius Willacey
Following the first clip released earlier this year, the SysMedPD consortium is pleased to present the second lecture recording as part of a little series putting a spotlight on certain working areas in the project – and introducing some of the researchers behind the scenes. The second recording features a lecture by Cornelius Willacey, PhD...
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Final project meeting in a different format
As many other projects, SysMedPD was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic during its last year having also an impact on the format of the fourth and final progress meeting. For the first time since the start of the project, the consortium was unable to meet in person for the annual meeting. Instead, a virtual meeting was set up on November 26-27,...
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Parkinson’s disease and the gut microbiome
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex disease and both genetic and environmental factors are associated with the evolution and progression of the disease. Recent studies are pointing to the role of the microbiome and gut bacteria in the progression of PD. However, the functional metabolic consequences of alterations in the gut microbiome remain...
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First SysMedPD lecture recording released
With the final project months approaching, the SysMedPD consortium is pleased to present its first lecture recording. It is the start of a series of lecture recordings putting a spotlight on certain working areas in the project – and introducing some of the researchers behind the scenes. The first recording features a lecture by Javier Jarazo, PhD...
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SysMedPD member co-leads new journal Organs-on-a-Chip
The Elsevier journal Organs-on-a-Chip is open for submissions since September 2019. Led by Co-Editors Jens Christian Schwamborn (University of Luxembourg, member of the SysMedPD consortium) and Peter Ertl (TU Wien University), the interdisciplinary open access journal is dedicated to publishing research and development in the field of organs,...
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Scientists model Parkinson’s disease in midbrain organoids
A research group around SysMedPD member Jens Schwamborn advances experimental in vitro models to study Parkinson’s disease mechanisms and elucidate unexplored aspects of this neurodegenerative disorder. They presented their findings recently in the paper “Modeling Parkinson’s disease in midbrain-like organoids”, published in npj parkinson’s...
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SysMedPD 3rd Progress Meeting in Leiden
On January 09 and 10, the SysMedPD consortium met for its 3rd Progress Meeting in Leiden, the Netherlands. Thomas Hankemeier, Principal Investigator at Leiden University and Ronan Fleming, Coordinator of SysMedPD welcomed around 35 consortium members at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). 38 months into the project, Work...
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Open database encapsulates worldwide knowledge of human metabolism
An international research consortium, headed by the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, has developed a database that is unique in the world: the Virtual Metabolic Human Database (VMH). The VMH database is an open source project in which researchers led by Prof. Ines Thiele have systematically...
Events
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ISSCR Annual Meeting, 2020
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2020 IAPRD World Congress
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Advances in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Therapies - AAT-AD/PDTM Focus Meeting 2020
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International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
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International Conference on Neurology and Brain Disorders
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5th World Parkinson Congress
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Krembil Knowledge Gaps in Parkinson's Disease Symposium
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21st International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Sölden, Austria