Luxembourg Institute of Health

(IN BRIEF) Scientists from the Luxembourg Institute of Health, in collaboration with national clinical and research partners, have developed a functional profiling approach that could significantly enhance personalized treatment strategies for metastatic colorectal cancer. By using patient-derived spheroids—three-dimensional tumour models … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health has been awarded ISO 20387 accreditation for its biobanking activities by the UK Accreditation Service, following a detailed audit. The certification covers multiple operational units and a wide range of processes, including the … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health has received a €35,000 donation from the non-profit Plooschter Project to support research by the Tumor–Stroma Interactions group within its Department of Cancer Research. The funding marks the seventh consecutive year of support … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) A review published in Nature Reviews Neurology highlights how researchers at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, in collaboration with the University of Luxembourg, are advancing brain tumour research through the development of organoid models. These three-dimensional, patient-derived structures … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) A Master’s student at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, Nil Karaarslan, has been awarded the Marian Aldred Award by Think Pink Lux in recognition of her research into genetically engineered Natural Killer cells for breast cancer treatment. The … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Researchers from the Luxembourg Institute of Health, together with LISER and STM, have published a new study in BMC Women’s Health analysing the socioeconomic and clinical factors that influence women’s return to work after breast cancer diagnosis based … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health, in collaboration with the Luxembourg Veterinary and Food Administration, has released its first comprehensive status report on avian disease surveillance in 2025, covering avian influenza, Newcastle disease, West Nile, and Usutu viruses. The … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Researchers at the Luxembourg Institute of Health have published a major review in Nature Cancer proposing a new framework to explain and potentially overcome the long-standing resistance of glioblastoma to immunotherapy. The study analyses how this aggressive brain … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) held its first Alumni Career Options Event on October 8, uniting early-career researchers with former employees who have built successful careers across academia, industry, policy, and entrepreneurship. Featuring seven distinguished alumni, including … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) Luxembourg marked the tenth anniversary of the National Centre for Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD) with a two-day symposium highlighting a decade of progress in Parkinson’s research, clinical care, and prevention. Funded by the National Research … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) has announced five lecture series beginning this autumn and continuing through 2026, covering themes from microbiome research and causal inference to proteomics, cancer immunotherapy, and epidemiology. Led by LIH principal investigators and … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) A Luxembourg–South Korea–USA consortium has launched the International Health Data Space Initiative (IHDSI) to create a federated, secure and privacy‑compliant platform for cross‑border health data integration, collaborative clinical research and translational innovation. Led by the Luxembourg Institute of … Read the full press release →

(IN BRIEF) LIH’s Department of Medical Informatics is partnering in the EU-funded CANDLE project to develop secure, interoperable National Cancer Data Nodes. By gathering user requirements and addressing technical and legal challenges, LIH ensures these nodes meet researcher and clinician … Read the full press release →

(PRESS RELEASE) LUXEMBOURG, 29-Nov-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), a public biomedical research organisation, has announced that a project called YOUNG 50 and funded by the European Commission launches in Luxembourg with the aim to screen and … Read the full press release →

LUXEMBOURG, 20-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — In September 2017, the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) announced the bilateral research projects that will be funded jointly by FNR and the “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” (ANR) in France from the INTER call 2017. … Read the full press release →

LUXEMBOURG, 20-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Amy Parrish, first-year doctoral candidate at LIH’s Department of Infection and Immunity, was selected to receive an AFR grant from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) to conduct her PhD project in the field of microbiome research. She … Read the full press release →

Researchers from LIH’s Cardiovascular Research Unit and international collaborators published an article in the number one cardiology journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, in September 2016. They identified a circular RNA that can predict patient outcome after heart … Read the full press release →

Benzo[a]pyrene, a famous chemical of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) family, is an omnipresent environmental pollutant which is considered as carcinogenic. At LIH’s Department of Population Health, the Human Biomonitoring Research Unit has identified four new metabolites of this compound … Read the full press release →

Enschede, Netherlands, 21-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The HTSR research group of the research institute MIRA (University of Twente), the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the University of York have just signed an international research collaboration investigating the clinical and economic … Read the full press release →