Parkinson’s disease is an insidious disease: by the time it manifests as the typical motor dysfunctions such as tremors or muscle rigidity, portions of the brain have already been irreversibly destroyed. By this stage, the disease will have often begun already decades earlier.
It has been known for a while that in Parkinson’s diseases disturbances arise in the mitochondria (‘energy plants’) and lysosomes (‘garbage trucks’) of the dopamine-producing cells. But how are these two disturbances connected and why do they cause the same disease?
Join us in the fight against Parkinson's disease on 2 September on Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes in Luxembourg!
On 2 September, a Giant Public Pillow Fight took place in Luxembourg in front of the Grand Ducal Palace.
Once a year the NCER-PD research programme is evaluated by an external Steering Committee composed of international experts. On 10-11 July 2017, the two-year progress report of the study was presented and received very good grades.