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Legal Medicine

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The Department of Legal Medicine works mostly at the request of the Luxembourg judicial authorities, the police and other government bodies.

Its main activity areas are all aspects of forensic medicine, the genetic identification based on molecular biology methods, toxicological reports for autopsies and matters concerning living persons, the identification and testing of narcotic drugs and the control of drugs, food supplements or other products of unknown origin suspected of containing medicinal substances.

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MEET OUR scientists

MEET OUR scientists

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"D'Patiente kënnen op d'Tatsaach vertrauen datt Medikamenter, déi ënner verännerleche Temperaturbedéngungen an Ambulanzen gelagert ginn, hiren Effekt behalen."

Dr Serge Schneider

Head of Analytical Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Service

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"No dem erfollegräichen interdisziplinären Training fille mir eis fir den Eeschtfall gutt virbereet."

Dr Martine Schaul

Forensic pathologist

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"Unser Ziel ist es, ein nachhaltiges Netzwerk gegen das Schweigen aufzubauen, auf das sich Opfer von Gewalt verlassen können."

Dr Thorsten Schwark

Ad interim head of Legal Medicine Department

KEY FIGURES

241

Medico-legal autopsies & expert opinions

12,238

Genetic identification samples

2,053

Samples for hair toxicological analysis