Luxembourg (Europe)

Did you know that the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine at the University of Luxembourg is now member of the European ELIXIR network? This initiative makes research from all of its members available to the other members, thereby fostering scientific exchange. http://ow.ly/DAvg30fDtTh

On 7 September 2017, Luxembourg joined 20 other European countries in the ELIXIR (European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information) network, a network in which life science research data are shared and made available on the Internet in the long term.

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Sciences such as biology and biomedicine are generating gigantic amounts of research data from the analysis of genomes and gene products. Often, however, these data are only kept in one place, making comparisons between different studies difficult and the legalities regarding their use unclear. ELIXIR – the “European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information” is looking to fix this unfortunate state of affairs.

Now Luxembourg becomes member of this transnational network: ELIXIR Luxembourg. In ELIXIR, 18 European countries are providing the ICT infrastructure for making data from biological and medical studies permanently accessible, to enhance their analysis and to support scientists´ research. With ELIXIR, Luxembourg aims to connect the national digitalisation strategy with the fast growing sector of biomedicine.

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With ELIXIR, the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information, fifteen European countries have established a secure hub-and-node infrastructure in which biological data will be permanently accessible for research.

On Thursday, 7 September 2017, the Luxembourg ELIXIR node (ELIXIR-LU), an important interface in the field of translational medicine, will start its activity.

Funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, ELIXIR-LU will henceforth allow researchers across Europe to have access to personalised biomedical data stored centrally at the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg.

“Providing these data for other researchers and analysing them in different contexts could lead to new diagnostic methods, better therapies, or hitherto unknown approaches in the prevention of certain diseases,” stresses Dr Reinhard Schneider, head of ELIXIR-LU.

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