JAHEE is a European collaborative project where Member States work jointly to address health inequalities and achieve greater equity in health outcomes across all groups in society, in all participating countries and in Europe at large.
The Lancet One Health Commission co-hosted the session, “Climate Change and One Health,” at the 2020 World Health Summit in Berlin. View the Co-chairs of the Commission as they participate during this session’s panel discussion!
UiO:Life Science funds 14 convergence environments that address major challenges within life sciences related to health, environment and sustainable growth. A new application round has started. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate.
NCMM welcomed two new staff members in October: Harold Gutch, Senior Engineer, IT and Pavel Kopcil, PhD student, Haapaniemi Group
The Lancet One Health Commission co-hosted the session titled, “Pandemics and Operationalizing One Health: Working within the Framework of the Global Action Plan for SDG3,” at the 2020 World Health Summit in Berlin. View the session!
On October 21st, Mikkel Elle Lepperød successfully defended his PhD thesis “Dissecting neuronal circuits for navigation in experiments and models.”
Ahmad Ali Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM. He is currently spending time in the group of Dr. Linda Sandblad, director of the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), based at Umeå University.
Forty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The summer projects concluded with an exhibition and selection of the best academic and popular science poster.
Professor Charpentier was one of the first young group leaders recruited to NCMM’s Swedish sister centre, the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) in 2009.
After being corona-delayed by six months, it was time to celebrate the first graduates from the innovation program SPARK Norway. The graduation of a total of nine projects was marked with the presentation of diplomas and presentations given by all project managers, also called SPARKees.
Now you can see the summer students' exhibition in the basement of Georg Sverdrups hus. - And you can vote for the best poster.
NCMM is pleased to announce that Judith Zaugg, EMBL Heidelberg, has been appointed as a member of NCMM's SAB (Scientific Advisory Board)
Two affiliated University of Oslo researchers will be presenting during the upcoming GLOBVAC 2020 webinar series.
The Norwegian Research School of Global Health hosted a photo contest during the two-day 4th Annual PhD Conference. Congratulations to the winners!
Professor Kristin M. Heggen, Researcher Tony J. Sandset and Professor Eivind Engebretsen have written the editorial in World Health Organization Bulletin, October 2020.
Article 'CENP-A nucleosome—a chromatin-embedded pedestal for the centromere: lessons learned from structural biology' published in the journal Essays in Biochemistry
Swedish Nordic EMBL node, MIMS, hosts the 10th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting from Umeå, Sweden.
Dr. Edna Xian Hu joined NCMM in September 2020. She has a PhD from the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.
Sujan Rijal is studying a Masters Degree in Health Economics, Policy and Management at the University of Oslo. He arrived January 2020, and eight weeks later the lock down started.
On September 25th, Charlotte Christensen successfully defended her PhD thesis “Balancing stability and plasticity - perturbations of extracellular matrix and inhibitory activity in the mature grid cell network.”
Norway has been awarded the UN Prize for its strategy, “Better Health, Better Lives - Combating Non-Communicable Diseases in the Context of Norwegian Development Policy 2020-2024."
We are thrilled to announce Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde, Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the Institute of Health and Society at UiO has been awarded the ASAUK (African Studies Association of the UK) Audrey Richards Prize 2020 for the best PhD dissertation in African Studies.
Across the Nordic EMBL Partnership, a wide range of projects are underway to help tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Karen-Marie joined NCMM in September 2020. Previously she worked at Oslo's Radium Hospital, both as a researcher and as a health and safety representative.
BI Norwegian Business School (BI) is conducting interesting projects, which involves the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO) and its partners, specifically aiming to design supply chains that function as intended, both under normal conditions and in crises, such as the ongoing pandemic.
