Master’s Intership Position in Nutrition, Dietary Exposures, and Chronic Disease Outcomes

**Applicants should be enrolled in a Master's program, and the internship should be a mandatory part of the degree.** Within the Department of Precision Health, Dr. Torsten Bohn, Head of the Nutrition & Health Research Group (NUTRIHEALTH), aims, in collaboration with his team, to explore the world of carotenoids and dietary fibers. An important focus is the...

Obesity is a chronic relapsing disease and a major public health concern due to its high prevalence, and the possible associated physical and psychological complications (cardiometabolic, pulmonary, renal, neurodegenerative, oncological ). However, despite these alarming facts, obesity is not always recognised and managed as a chronic multifactorial...

**Background** The Physical Activity, Sport and Health (PASH) research group aims to improve knowledge on the beneficial effects of physical activity on individuals’ health with and without disease and of any age, as well as on the mechanisms leading to the development of sports injuries. Dr. Laurent Malisoux, PhD, head of this research group, and Dr....

The newly recruited professor will join the LCSB - an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Luxembourg. At LCSB we accelerate biomedical research by closing the link between systems biology and medical research. Collaborations between biologists, medical doctors, computer scientists, physicists, engineers and mathematicians offer new...

**Background** About forty-six percent of people affected by colorectal cancer are aged 70 years, yet they remain under-represented in randomized controlled trials. This leads to limited evidence to guide treatment decisions in this heterogeneous population. To strengthen the evidence base on treatment strategies for older patients with colorectal cancer, it...

Within the Department of Precision Health, the Ageing, Cancer and Disparities Research Unit (ACADI) aims to investigate key moments in the cancer pathway where inequalities are likely to occur, namely pre-diagnosis, treatment decision-making, and active treatment, and propose recommendations and interventions. The ACADI team has recently received support...

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma with an acute phase followed by a chronic phase due to repeated exposure to the parasite if untreated. The main species causing human infections are Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium haematobium In Africa mainly and S. japonicum and S. Mekongki in Asia....

The Physical Activity, Sport and Health (PASH) research group aims to improve knowledge on the beneficial effects of physical activity on individuals' health with and without disease and of any age, as well as on the mechanisms leading to the development of sports injury.Dr. Laurent Malisoux, PhD, head of this research group, and Dr. Mathilde Mura, PhD,...

The **Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)** is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg. We conduct fundamental and translational research in the field of Systems Biology and Biomedicine - in the lab, in the clinic and _in silico_. We focus on neurodegenerative processes and are especially interested in Alzheimer’s...

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg.We conduct fundamental and translational research in the field of Systems Biology and Biomedicine –...