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Legal Medicine
The LNS Legal Medicine Department 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.
MEET OUR team
MEET OUR team
"We greatly appreciate that the highly relevant analysis for fire accelerants in death investigations involving fire victims is now being offered within the Department"
Dr. Martine Schaul
Forensic pathologist
"I am very proud to have contributed to the development of the laboratory for fire debris investigation at the LNS. This is a brand new field of study within our Legal Medicine Department - and a first in Luxembourg"
Nicolas Villani
Laboratory technician