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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 Immu ....
A discovery by Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) researchers offers hope to chronic pain patients as it paves the way for a new generation of drugs that won’t rely on the use of classical opiates. “There is a clear medical need to treating chronic pain, because you cannot really tackle this with classical opioids without important side effects,” said Andy Chevigné, who oversees the research project. The US department of health, for example, estimates that more than 130 people a day die from opioid-related drug overdoses in the country. More than 10 million people are misusing prescription opioids such as painkillers, it says, leading the US to declare the crisis a national emergency. ....