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LIH’s CEO Dr Catherine Larue becomes “Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur”

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Dr Catherine Larue, acting as CEO ad interim of LIH since 1st January 2016, received the grade of “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur”.
October 19, 2016   In Our News  

Launch of the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology

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Microorganisms, despite their notorious reputation as disease-causing agents, play essential roles in our daily lives.
July 06, 2016   In Our News  

First ever PhD retreat organised in Luxembourg

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The PhD retreat “Life after PhD”, organised on 21th June 2016, aimed to give PhD candidates a glimpse into different career paths for PhD holders.
July 01, 2016   In Our News  

Personalised Medicine Conference 2016: LIH joins discussion on how to bring innovation to the market

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Developing tools for personalised medicine is one of LIH’s key objectives. On 1st and 2nd June 2016, the European Commission organised ...
June 13, 2016   In Our News  

Luxembourg seeks to recruit a Chair in Neuropathology

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Luxembourg is recruiting for a Chair in Neuropathology. This position is endowed with funding from the PEARL programme ...
April 27, 2016   In Our News  

NCER-PD - Meet Dany, our control person #100

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NCER-PD stands for National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease.
April 11, 2016   In Our News  

LIH’s cardiovascular research presented to the Business Club France-Luxembourg

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Dr Yvan Devaux, Associate Head of the Cardiovascular Research Unit, presented LIH and the research topics of his unit...
February 19, 2016   In Our News  

LIH teams up with Ayasdi to advance precision medicine research in cancer

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LIH is pleased to announce that it has teamed up with Ayasdi, a US company that provides advanced data analytics solutions to Fortune 500 companies.
February 09, 2016   In Our News  

Retrospective 2015: LIH’s achievements and major events

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2015 was an eventful and scientifically active year for LIH.
January 28, 2016   In Our News  

Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis - a new research unit at LIH

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Since July 2015, Prof Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala is head of the newly created Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis Research Unit (HEESRU).
January 28, 2016   In Our News  

The Cancer Foundation supports a research project from LIH

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Luxembourg’s Cancer Foundation (Fondation Cancer) funds a research project of LIH’s Department of Population Health.
January 21, 2016   In Our News  

Cardiometabolic risk factors prediction in youth: Body mass index is not enough…

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A recent article from LIH’s Department of Population Health, first authored by Dr Hanen Samouda, appeared in the international journal BMC Pediatrics.
January 18, 2016   In Our News  

PhD findings of Yue Zheng: An African medicinal plant inhibits HIV-1 entry into immune cells

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Beginning of December, Yue Zheng, who has been PhD candidate at LIH for four years, successfully defended her thesis.
January 13, 2016   In Our News  

LIH researcher Dr Xianqing Mao engaged in the European Health Parliament

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Europe must confront numerous healthcare problems and this requires new thinking.
January 04, 2016   In Our News  

Tropical diseases: Research and training efforts at LIH’s Methodology and Statistics team

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Dr Michel Vaillant, researcher in biostatistics at the Competence Centre for Methodology and Statistics is intensively involved in projets of the TDR.
December 22, 2015   In Our News  

Dr Catherine Larue appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer of LIH

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Dr Catherine Larue, current CEO of IBBL (Integrated BioBank of Luxembourg), will take over the general management of LIH starting from January 1st, 20
December 18, 2015   In Our News  

Cardiolinc Network launches EU-funded research programme MiPROG

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Members of the Cardiolinc Network, coordinated by the Cardiovascular Research Unit of Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), received 1.8 Million Euro
December 10, 2015   In Our News  

3rd Luxembourg Osteotomy Congress for orthopaedic surgeons was again a success

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Luxembourg Institute of Health and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg co-organised the third edition of the annual Luxembourg Osteotomy Congress
December 09, 2015   In Our News  

FNR CORE grants - valuable third-party funding for three research groups at LIH

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The National Research Fund Luxembourg (FNR) finances multi-annual thematic research programs with its central funding instrument CORE.
December 08, 2015   In Our News  

Dr Anna Chioti awarded by the International Diplomatic and Consular Society CIDIC

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Dr Anna Chioti was rewarded with the Award of Economic Diplomacy for her role as Head of the Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation Centre (CIEC)
December 07, 2015   In Our News