Rotary Club joins the fight against Parkinson!

On Wednesday 10th May, LIH's Clinical and Epidemiological Investigation Centre (CIEC) had the great pleasure to welcome Mr Gérard Zoller (G.Z.) and Mr Constant Infalt (C.I.), respectively Chairman of Interclub of the 14 Rotary Clubs in Luxembourg and Rotary Country Chair Grand-Duché de Luxembourg as control participants to our Parkinson study NCER-PD. They kindly accepted to share with us their experience and their involvement in the fight against Parkinson disease.

Michael J Fox Foundation visits Luxembourg

Members of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) visited the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg and the Parkinson Research Clinic on 21-22 April 2017.

Bachelor programme and specializations in medicine to be established

The government has decided to establish new medical training programmes in Luxembourg within the next years.

"200 years of Parkinson’s disease research" exhibition at the Luxembourg train station

Each year, we celebrate in the month of April the birthday of James Parkinson, who first described the disease and its characteristics in 1817. Patient and research groups around the world organise the World Parkinson’s Day around the 11th of April to draw attention to the disease and inform on symptoms and treatment options.

Biomedical research supported by Rotary

The Rotary Clubs from Luxembourg have successfully supported brain research for years now. In order to further endorse biomedical research, the Rotary Clubs from Luxembourg, in collaboration with their Rotarian friends from Briey and Salernes, as well as the Rotary Foundation, which celebrates its 100th anniversary, have launched the project “Hope 4 Parkinson”.