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?
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.
Join us in the fight against Parkinson's disease on 2 September on Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes in Luxembourg!
To improve research on Parkinson's disease, the Luxembourg Institute of Health is recruiting "control persons" (not suffering from Parkinson's disease), especially men above 40, to obtain clinical data and samples that will be compared to those of patients.