Award Celebrates Molecular Pharmacology Studies at LIH
Dec 31 2020 Read 348 Times
The international 2019 Galien Prize in Pharmacology has been awarded to Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) scientists Dr Andy Chevigné and Dr Martyna Szpakowska from the LIH Department of Infection and Immunity (DII) for their outstanding contribution to molecular pharmacology.
Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian Minister of Public Health and Social Affairs, along with representatives of pharmaceutical companies and healthcare hubs attended the virtual prize ceremony. The two LIH researchers were commended for their continuous achievements over the last eight years in advancing the understanding of the relevance, role, function and pharmacology of atypical chemokine receptors (ACKRs) and their ligands research activities and also for establishing and co-supervising the first molecular pharmacology academic laboratory in Luxembourg, which is located at the LIH Department of Infection and Immunity. The ma