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First Consortium Meeting of the NCER-PD

On Monday, 9 November 2015, the first formal consortium meeting of the National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s disease (NCER-PD) took place at the Maison du Savoir in Esch-Belval.

The 100th NCER-PD Patient

In October, the NCER-PD team has reached 100 participants in the Luxembourg Parkinson study.

How to best treat patients with advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease is a disorder that generally progresses over the course of the years. Particularly, for patients at advanced stages of the disease where treatment options had previously been limited new therapies have emerged on the market in recent years.

Special suit shows how Parkinson’s disease feels

If you read about Parkinson’s disease (PD), you will quickly hear about typical symptom such as muscle stiffness and tremor. But how does that feel?

Parkinson’s experts from Oxford visit Luxembourg to start collaboration

During their visit and lectures at the LCSB last week, Prof. Michele Hu and Prof. Richard Wade-Martins from the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) exchanged their experiences from the last five years with researchers from Luxembourg and started a collaboration within the National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD) research program.