The laboratory of Retrovirology performs fundamental and applied research in the field of chronic viral infections (HIV, HBV, HCV). The activities of the laboratory focus on two research domains, which interact closely: immuno-virology and clinical virology.
PRESENTATION
Chronic viral infections caused by HIV and HCV are an ever-growing public health problem in Luxembourg as in the rest of the world. The Laboratory of Retrovirology was founded in 1989 as the national reference laboratory for HIV and is working in close relationship with the National Department of Infectious Diseases. Besides routine clinical activities financed by the Ministry of Health, the Laboratory of Retrovirology has developed clinically oriented biomedical research in the field of chronic viral infections. The activities of the laboratory focus on two research domains, which interact closely: immuno-virology and clinical virology.
Our bioinformatics team has developed tools to support HIV research projects:
- the automated sequence analysis software ART-A for HIV
and developed within the ART-A network project
- the HIV subtyping tool COMET
Our HIV research is supported by grants from the "Fondation Recherche sur le SiDA". Tax-deducible donations to the foundation can be made on the bank accounts:
BIC CCPLLULL IBAN LU88 1111 0877 7890 0000
BIC BGLLLULL IBAN LU92 0030 4314 3109 0000
BIC BILLLULL IBAN LU20 0021 1072 3090 0000,
under the label "support for the Laboratory of Retrovirology/CRP-Santé".