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Women's fat has a more active metabolism, but this effect disappears later in life.

NCMM congratulates NCMM Associate Investigator and Board Member, Hilde Loge Nilsen, and colleague Evandro Fei Fang on their recent research which has found that the clearance of dysfunctional mitochondria slows down the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease

Professor Andrea Winkler, director at the Centre for Global Health, chaired the high profiled Oslo Life Science 2019 seminar on health industry innovation at the University Aula on February 11th.

The group's latest publication features in JoVE (The Journal of Visualized Experiments)

Meeting report from "Approaches to Protect and Maintain Health Care Services in Armed Conflict – Meeting SDGs 3 and 16" published in the international journal Conflict and Health.

PhD candidate Elise Holter Thompson has been granted funding for a three-year postdoc position from the Norwegian Health Association (Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen) where she will investigate mechanisms of dementia using an animal model.

Newly appointed Director of NCMM, Professor Janna Saarela, gave a welcome talk to staff on Wednesday 9 January. 

"Hjernens visuelle «skysstasjon» er egentlig en portvokter" skrevet av Bjarne Røsjo (3. januar, 2019)

A drug development project started by the Taskén Group at NCMM is at the centre of a new and unique co-development agreement between a Norwegian start-up and an Indian pharmaceutical company. 

Hybrid Technology Hub researcher Jo Waaler is awarded a grant of 4,4 million NOK for the project Tankyrase Inhibition in Cancer Immunotherapy. The grant is awarded by Helse Sør Øst.

Report from PRIO seminar on Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: Reflections on the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, 11 December 2018

As a part of the Oslo Peace Week 2018, the Centre for Global Health co-hosted a dinner seminar on Tuesday 11 December, reflecting on Women, Health, Peace and Prosperity.

Report from Global Mental Health Day 28th November 2018 at Professor boligen, this year a special focus on perinatal mental health.

Unlike Sweden, Denmark and Finland, Norway currently does not have a dedicated cryo electron microscopy facility for single particle analysis. We interviewed NCMM’s Acting Director, Hartmut Luecke, and researcher Eva Cunha, about their experiences with using cryo-EM and the current plans to bring the technology to Norway. 

The Women in Global Health Norway (WGH Norway) was launched on November 26th, 2018 in Oslo with an impressive academic programme followed by an informal reception. The newly established platform is hosted by the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo (UiO).

New Global Health Traveller blogpost from Per Ole Iversen, professor at Division of Clinical Nutrion at Institute for Basic Medicine at UiO and a board member of the Centre for Global Health Steering Committee.

Dr Mathelier, head of the Computational Biology and Gene Regulation Group at NCMM, has been awarded a prestigious grant by the Research Council of Norway.

Congratulations to the Mathelier Group on their recent publication in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. PhD student in the Mathelier Group, Marius Gheorghe, is first author on the paper.

Johanne Sundby, Professor at Department for Community Medicine and Global Health and Deputy Director at the Centre for Global Health, participated in a workshop on gender based violence (GBV) and sexual harassment this month in Myanmar.

On the 29^th-30^th October 2018, more than 100 participants from 12 different countries gathered in Kathmandu, Nepal for the International Conference on Culture and Global Mental Health: Culture, Spirituality and Mental Health.

Research project on use and misuse of cesarean section in low-resource setting receives 992.000 NOK in funding from Vestre Viken.

We got the chance to ask Maria Aarsland a few questions about her thesis fieldwork in Ethiopia, arranged as a part of the EXCEL SMART programme between UiO and Jimma University. 

UiO:Life Science awarded our application for internationalization support formalizing a closer collaboration with Arvin Kumar. He will come to Oslo week 50.

For the first time UiO:Lifescience granted undergraduate students with a salary to perform a research project during their summer vacation 2018. CINPLA were lucky to grab 4 talented students in various projects from gene-editing by crisper to behavioral analysis. 

"Hjernens balanse mellom læring og hukommelse reguleres av brusk-protein" skrevet av Bjarne Røsjo (5. november, 2018)