Norway Life Science 2024: Unlocking the Potential of Health Data kicks off 13 -14 February. Carl Henrik Gørbitz, Director UiO:Life Science, promises an exciting programme with the leading experts in health data from home and abroad. Minister of Trade and Industry, Jan Christian Vestre will also participate.
Creating a fair exam system for second-year students on the medical degree during the pandemic was quite a challenge. Now, a study published in BMC Medical Education shows that it was successful.
With funding from the SPARK Social Innovation program, Jan Ivar Røssberg and June Ullevoldsæter Lystad, seeks to develop a VR application to be used in the treatment of patients with serious psychotic disorders.
"We must manage the resources from the project in a way that allows us to achieve something even greater in the future," Professor Vessela Kristensen says. She is Principal Investigator and coordinator of the EU project RESCUER.
The Nordic SPARK programmes attended NLS Days in Copenhagen. This year there were 30 projects and alumni from Denmark, Finland and Norway participating.
Professor Kristina Haugaa aims to better understand the heart disease Lamin A/C cardiomyopathy. She has received a grant, together with researchers from the University of Minnesota, for the The LaMinOs project.
With a kick-off conference, the new Centre of Excellence (CoE), CRESCO has officially opened. The new centre aims to gain new and important knowledge about the biological processes in the very first stages of life.
The EATRIS-Plus Staff Exchange Programme brings postdoctoral researcher Vipin Kumar to the Sahlen group at SciLifeLab, to help uncover the role of long non-coding RNA in gene regulation.
The link was found in a Norwegian mother-child cohort study of breastmilk and confirmed in zebrafish models.
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2024!
Thesis “Effects of perineuronal nets on conductive and capacitive properties of neurons: Computational studies”
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Thesis title: “Extracellular Matric Molecules, Brain Plasticity, and Advancements in Calcium Imaging of Neural Activity ”
Norway Life Science 2024 gathers leading actors in health and life science, to find the solutions that will allow Norway to get more in return from the large investments in health research.
A new Norwegian network for Planetary Health will raise awareness of the interdependent relationship between human health and the health of the planet.
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Youxian Li, receives NOK eight million through the Research Council's program Research project for young talents (FRIPRO). In his project, Li aims to understand how cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) mediate cell death in cancer.
Since its release 20 years ago, JASPAR has provided researchers with access to regularly updated and experimentally curated transcription factor binding profiles. The 10th update of JASPAR now expands this widely used resource even further.
The Global Health Norway Conference 2023 left attendees with a renewed sense of optimism and determination to contribute to the fight for health equity. It provided a platform to discuss, learn, and reflect on the lessons from the pandemic and the steps needed to build resilient and equitable health systems.
In his project, Greiff will attempt to understand the rules of antibody-antigen binding, and how this knowledge can be used to develop effective therapeutic antibodies and vaccines.
Norwegian Cancer Society allocates around NOK 71 million to MED researchers
Four new projects have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme in health-related life science, SPARK Norway. One of them won the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2023.
Noëlle Streeton at the Faculty of Humanities and Victor Greiff at the Faculty of Medicine have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.
If you are a bachelor or master student and answer the Studiebarometeret within the 26 of November you are in the running of winning a gift card. The study program with the highest response rate gets cake or pizza.
Biswajyoti Sahu, Marieke Kuijjer and Anthony Mathelier have each been awarded funding as part of the Norwegian Cancer Society’s annual main call.
The conference is on Medical and Legal Knowledge and the Problematic of Translation, March 6–7, 2024. Deadline for submission: December 10, 2023.
The Centre for Global Health is opening up for applications for one additional Research ExceLlence and Innovation in Global HealTh (RELIGHT) project for the 2022-2024 period. The application deadline was 22 November 2023.
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