News
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3D culture of dopaminergic neurons to better mimic Parkinson’s disease
SysMedPD member Prof. Dr Jens Schwamborn and his colleagues from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have developed a novel in vitro model to test drug candidates against Parkinson’s disease (PD). The identification of promising drug candidates in preclinical research and the development of...
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SysMedPD partner hosts the 4th International Parkinson’s Disease Symposium
On the 11 and 12 October 2018, the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg hosted its 4th International Parkinson’s Disease Symposium. Around 170 participants from diverse backgrounds, i.e. researchers, doctors, nurses as well as patients and their relatives gathered to discuss and exchange on the latest...
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18th conference of the International Study Group for Systems Biology (ISGSB)
From 24 to 28 September, 2018, the International Study Group for Systems Biology (ISGSB) held its 18th conference in Tromsø, Norway. The conference served as a forum to exchange and discuss ideas between experimenters with a keen eye for quantitative aspects, theoreticians with a keen eye for the experimental practice and those in between....
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PhD positions at LCSB
The PARK-QC Doctoral Training Unit at the University of Luxembourg, involving the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, the Life Sciences Research Unit, the Luxembourg Institute of Health, the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg funded under the PRIDE scheme of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), invites applications for PhD...
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Thomas Hankemeier delivers a prestigious speech during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University
On February 8, Leiden University celebrated its Dies Natalis in the Peiterskerk in Leiden, Netherlands. In line with tradition, two university professors delivered a lecture to celebrate the University’s foundation day. One of them was Prof. Thomas Hankemeier, work package leader of WP 4, who spoke about ongoing research to use metabolomics to...
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SysMedPD 2nd Progress Meeting in Lübeck
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LCSB researcher is awarded Lush Young Researcher Prize
Anna Monzel, a PhD student in the team of Prof. Dr. Jens Schwamborn at LCSB, received one of this year’s Young Researcher Prizes from the British cosmetics company Lush. Anna developed a three-dimensional cell culture model of the human midbrain as part of her doctoral thesis in the Developmental and Cellular Biology Group of Prof....
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EPMA World Congress 2017
PPPM in Practice – this was the theme of the 2017 world congress by the European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine (EPMA). EPMA’s main objective is to promote the paradigm change from delayed reactive medical services to evidence-based Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine (PPPM) as an integrated...
Events
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14th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases
Lisbon, Portugal -
2nd Conference of the European Association of Systems Medicine
Utrecht, the Netherlands -
Save the date: 4th International Parkinson’s Disease Symposium
Luxembourg -
18th conference of the International Study Group for Systems Biology (ISGSB)
Tromsø, Norway -
SysMedPD 2nd Progress Meeting
University of Luebeck, Germany -
INBC 2017: International Conference on Neurology and Brain Disorders
Valencia, Spain -
21st International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders
Vancouver, Canada -
ICSB 2017: 19th International Conference on Systems Biology
Dubai, UAE