In accordance with the National Health Plan (2017-2022), Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar, is in the process of developing a comprehensive Health Information Strategy. The Ministry has decided that there will be one common national platform for health information in Myanmar, namely DHIS2. The choice of DHIS2 fulfils an aim of the MY-NORTH-project.
According to the UiO strategy for life sciences, UiO:Life Science shall promote innovation for environment and health. Working groups have started to explore what actions the initiative should take in 2017.
NCMM is very pleased to announce that Professor Olli Kallioniemi has been appointed as the new NCMM Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) member. He will succeed Leif Groop.
The Centre for Global Health was honored to host Dr. Tarek Meguid from the State University of Zanzibar last week. Listen to his message on achieving health for everyone.
Application deadline is March 1, 2017.
The course is composed of two modules: a 5-week e-learning module in May-June and a 1-week on-campus module at the University of Copenhagen in mid-August. Application deadline is 1st April 2016.
February edition of the NCMM Newsletter.
Congratulations to NCMM Group Leader, Anthony Mathelier, who has been successful with an application for event support from UiO:Life Science.
The Oslo Life Science Conference 2017 is over. See pictures, watch videos and download presentations from the main day.
NCMM’s Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, addressed guests at day two of the Oslo Life Science Conference, talking about the future in personalized cancer therapy.
Congratulations to Jan Sigurd Blackstad for successfully defended his Master's thesis on February 10, 2017.
A closer look at NCMM's recent annual Network Meeting at Oslo Science Park
The Best Poster Presentation Award at the 1st Human Brain Projects student conference was given to Solveig Næss of CINPLA.
"Hva har krefter med hjernen vår å gjøre?"
NCMM’s Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, has been interviewed by the University of Oslo’s flagship science and technology news outlet, Titan.uio.no, ahead of his appearance at the Oslo Life Science Conference on the 16 February.
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Simen Tennøe tells how we can model the brain on a computer.
Nikolina Sekulic has received a prestigious Young Talent award from the Research Council of Norway for her work in chromatin biology.
NCMM and EATRIS Norway have been awarded a grant from the Helse-EU programme at the Research Council of Norway to recruit an EATRIS (European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine) Coordinator.
The CYSTINET-Africa group, consisting of members from Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Germany and Norway, got together for a three day workshop in Tanzania last week to kickstart the project.
The University of Oslo hosted the 10-year anniversary seminar by the Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) and the Norwegian Research School of Global Health (NRSGH) at the University of Trondheim.
The Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, has nominated Dr Thein Thein Htay to be awarded Doctor Honoris Causa in 2017. She has accepted the nomination, and will receive the degree at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, on September 1st, 2017.
The Olav Thon Foundation has awared 1.5 Million NOK over 3 years for "Grand Challenges", an interdisciplinary project engaging students in active research.
A large Norwegian study published by the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Oslo found that sunbed users are at not only at higher risk of developing melanoma, but also tend to develop the cancer at a younger age compared to nonusers.
On the 8th of December the Centre for Global Health (CGH) at the Institute of Health and Society, in collaboration with the Research Group on Traumatic Stress, Forced Migration and Global Mental Health at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo hosted a seminar highlighting the challenges and opportunities in mental health within global health.
