A PRECLINICAL EVALUATION: VACCINATION AND EFFICACY AGAINST SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2, the causative factor of COVID-19, is endangering the world's health, prosperity and political crises are on the horizon. Nations worldwide had to take drastic measures to prevent catastrophes: strict confinement and hygienic measures have been undertaken to minimize the virus spread. Despite the control measures, the pandemic is inevitably damaging the economy due to a shutdown of public and business life, an overload of the healthcare systems, and the high case fatality rate of COVID-19. The global fight against COVID-19 has mobilized, and many provisional treatments are being ...

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An Experimental test of Hospital Admission Guidelines

The project consists in an anonymous survey experiment on hospital guidelines during pandemics, such as those indicated by the Commission Nationale D'Ethique. Hospital guidelines are there to regulate admissions and treatment in case of congestion. Such guidelines, however, are rarely discussed in the media and most people are unlikely to be familiar with them. We propose to ask respondents whether they agree or not with the ethical principles of such guidelines and which ethical principles they would favor the most. In particular, we ask them to read a number of hypothetical scenarios on ...

Anonymity Preserving Self Reporting System

The idea is to provide citizens and residents of Luxembourg with a way to publicly and anonymously report the town they live in, upon testing positive for the corona virus. The resulting figure will be displayed on a map, either for government or public consumption. Allowing decision makers and/or individuals to better inform their actions.

CAILA - COVID-19 Artificial Intelligent Legal Advisor

We propose to build an artificial intelligent legal advisor that can automatically answer legal questions concerning the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath via a conversational interface (chatbot). In these unprecedented times, people can feel overwhelmed by doubts and it's not easy to find someone that will answer: am I allowed to go help my old parents across the border? Will I have the right to unemployment benefits? Will my business be entitled tax relief? How and when do I need to file my documents with social security, tax administrations? What rights do I have as a cross-border worke...

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CELL - Covid-19 pandEmic simuLator review for Luxembourg

Epidemic simulators are one of the essential tools for understanding and combating epidemic crises. They could assist researchers in better understanding the functioning of the dissemination process, but also empower decision-makers to try and assess different policies. In particular, they should be able to help with the projection of patient numbers, epicenters identification, intervention plan analysis, and resource management measures. With Covid-19, it is therefore required to assess if the existing simulation tools and the newly built/upcoming ones rely on realistic-enough propagatio...

CORONA APP

Tracking and data management: The project is to develop a method for monitoring, identifying, and predicting geographical clusters in which the coronavirus is prevalent and will likely spread, by tracking symptoms throughout Luxembourg.

COVID-19 and Neurturin

SARS-Cov-2 is a coronavirus is at the origin of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which poses a global and significant threat to public health worldwide. Although several treatment modalities have been evaluated, none has allowed a therapeutic breakthrough until now. New treatment modalities are therefore urgently needed. We have previously described that neurturin, a member of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family, expressed not only as a growth factor in the nervous system but also the immune system, displays clear anti-inflammatory properties in mouse asthma models. Indeed,...

COVID-19 related economic implications in Luxembourg: services industry robustness and commercial...

The proposed project seeks to understand crucial short- and medium-term economic impacts on and strategies of Luxembourg's commercial real estate industry (offices, hotels, large retail) as a proxy for its services industries' crisis resilience. Luxembourg is a small but open economy. The finance and advanced business services (FABS) are strategic industries and main contributors to Luxembourg's GDP. Close links between FABS firms (business ties, finance relationships) can amplify shocks in Luxembourg's economy. The likely damage done to the finance sector depends also on how flexible real...