Cases & Voices

Important research being carried out in the University of Luxembourg’s Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) on Parkinson’s Disease is having a global impact. Global electronics giant Phillips and Portabilis came to LCSB to help them find the missing piece of the puzzle in their quest to develop a combined sensor to prevent falls in Parkinson’s patients. Phillips already had a sensor that could detect a fall and alert for help. But researchers believed that a combined sensor would make it possible to recognise an acute risk of falling before it happened and generate early enough alerts to call for help at the same time.

LCSB plays a coordinating role in Luxembourg’s National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD). This is a joint Parkinson’s Disease research program that includes several biomedical research partners committed to finding new ways to affect earlier diagnoses and develop better treatments. LCSB established, and currently manages, the data and computation platform for the project. This platform provides the core competencies and technologies used for integration, curation and analysis of multidimensional data using well-grounded machine learning and computational modelling approaches to enable data analysis and interpretation.

Read the full case study in In The Field: https://www.inthefieldstories.net/collaborative-networks-help-improve-the-life-of-parkinsons-disease-patients/