How does infrastructure and health care practises interact? Fanny Chabrol gave a lecture on her latest research on this question from the Kibong'oto hospital in Tanzania.
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We congratulate the Global Financing Facility (GFF), on their well executed event this week in Oslo.
Sandra Lopez-Aviles and Anthony Mathelier both awarded grants as part of Norwegian Cancer Society’s annual open call.
Former NCMM Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, features in an article about the history of patents in research, and the pros and cons associated with the practice.
Expanding the Open Ephys system to include animal tracking and behavior-based closed-loop stimulation extends the availability of high-quality, low-cost experimental setup within standardized data formats.
Global health research groups now have the opportunity to apply for project development support from the RELIGHT programme. This is a great chance for qualified groups to position themselves for larger grant schemes. NEW DEADLINE 28. February 2019.
SPARK Norway is UiO:Life Science’s innovation programme for health-related life sciences. Meet three of the SPARKees and get inspired to apply.
The University of Oslo has recruited Dr Janna Saarela, Research Director of Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), the Finnish node of the Nordic EMBL Partnership, as the new Director of Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM).
Congratulations to Milad Hobbi Mobarhan for defending his thesis "Computational tools for modeling, data storage, and education in Neuroscience" for the degree of PhD on Tuesday 4th September 2018
Head of the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT) at the University of Oslo, Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Ole A. Andreassen, has been awarded the Bergesen's prize (Bergesenprisen) 2018 for Outstanding Research in Psychiatry.
How our mind can develop and acquire new knowledge, while at the same time preserve memories across a lifetime has been a longstanding question within neuroscience. The new research, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, shows that aggrecan is an essential for the assembly of perineuronal nets and regulation of brain plasticity.
Aggrecan directs extracellular matrix mediated neuronal plasticity. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2018.
The Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo had the pleasure to organise its 2nd annual Global Health Inspiration Day on the 25th of September 2018.
EU-OPENSCREEN officially recognised as European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)
Annual event provides important networking opportunities for EATRIS
NCMM congratulates Professor Jens Petter Berg on his appointment as the new Dean of Research at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo
The Nordic EMBL Partnership is very pleased to announce that Professor Poul Nissen, Director of DANDRITE (Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience) has been named as the third speaker of the Nordic EMBL Partnership.
This month, Øystein Røynesdal from the Centre for Global Health went to Jimma and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia with the NORPART: EXCEL SMART program. The aim was to record video lectures and illustrative material for use in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on how to write PhD proposals in the Health Sciences.
UiO:Life Science hopes to see Norwegian finalists in the pitch competition at the tech conference SLUSH in Helsinki on 5 December. The winner is granted 30 000 euros. Life science students and researchers in startups or pre-startups are welcome to apply before 1 October at 12:00.
NCMM hosts the 9th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership Meeting in the hills above Oslo. The annual Partnership meetings offer researchers an opportunity to come together for a programme of scientific discussion and networking.
Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) was externally evaluated by the Research Council of Norway in June 2018. The report has now been released, and NCMM is very pleased to announce that the Centre has been rated as ‘very good/excellent’ overall.
A major challenge in computational neuroscience is to specify the often large number of parameters that define neuron and neural network models. Many of these parameters have an inherent variability, and some are even actively regulated and change with time.
Prof. Andrea Winkler went on a field visit during her trip to Eastern Zambia in March 2018.
Interdisciplinary workshop with regards to the establishment of a virtual One Health teaching platform
The two large-scale multidisciplinary health networks, met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in April 2018