Helsam participated in the Holmenkollstafetten (a relay race within the city of Oslo) with a multidisciplinary and international team! The striped team had no problem to find the other relay runners at every change.
FIMM Director Olli Kallioniemi has been appointed director of the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Sweden and will start in this position in September, 2015. Olli Kallioniemi will join SciLifeLab as a professor at Karolinska Institutet and continue as a part-time Research Director at FIMM. NCMM congratulates Olli Kallioniemi to the appointment.
Ragnhild Beyrer, previous senior executive at the Section of International Health, visited two previous PhD students from Ethiopia April 2015.
On behalf of the Faculty of Medicine the Centre is member of a consortium which sent an application to the Norwegian Research Council's GLOBVAC programme on a Norwegian Research School of Global Health.
This conference on clinical cancer genomics was organized on March 11-12 2015. NCMM Director Kjetil Tasken and NCMM group leader Ian Mills participated in panel discussions.
We all have a gene than can cause lethal blood clots, but also protect us against cell death during a stroke. This raises a dilemma for scientists.
Through the Scientia Fellows program we offer a 3 year post doc position.
Deadline for application, 2nd of February 2015.
Graduate student Charlotte Christensen won the prize for the best poster presentation at the National PhD conference in Neuroscience.
Cheeses like the Norwegian “gammelost” and Roquefort may prevent weakening of bones when you are ill. New findings show that vitamin K2 protects the production of bone tissue during inflammations.
Is your health ruled by wind, bile or phlegm? Immersive work of Theresia Hofer explores Tibetan medicine in a new and exciting way.
Osteoporosis is one of the most common diseases in Norway. Researchers have now discovered that the body alters genes to counteract the disease.
On Friday, November 10th an open guest lecture was delivered by Dr. Said Habib Arwal, known as the First Afghan Health Hero and the father of community based health care in Afghanistan. The event was organized by the Centre for Global Health.
Transplanted stem cells make the hearts of mice more resistant to heart attacks.
On October 7th the newly established cross-disciplinary Centre for Global Health of the Faculty of Medicine was officially launched with a seminar on research of quality parameters. Norway and the world put in a great amount of effort to cope with the global health challenges we are facing today and it makes this initiative especially important.
Centre for global health advertises herby two stipends of NOK 3.500,-/month for 6-12 months attachment to the Centre.
Long-term research collaborations with the University of Oslo have contributed to improved health outcomes in Gambia.
What doctors believed to mark nerve cell death may instead show reparable injury in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.
Our cells eat themselves so that we can stay healthy. A detailed understanding of ‘autophagy’, our cells’ waste management system, may be the key to preventing diseases and extending our lives.
Professor John-Arne Røttingen has chaired a Chatham House working group on global health financing. They recommand that all countries should invest at least 5% of GDP on health and that high income countries should also provide support to countries with inadequate capacity.
Fewer and fewer pupils in Norwegian schools are given the 20-minute meal break recommended by the government.
Ammonia is very toxic to the brain and new research shows why: the glial cells ability to remove potassium is perturbed.
Researchers from Institute of Health and Society presented results from a long-term research collaboration with Malawian researchers at a dissemination seminar on reproductive health challenges in Malawi.
Researchers from Norway and Burkina Faso presented findings from a three-year interdisciplinary project on unsafe abortion in Burkina Faso, at a conference in November. Health care providers, researchers and policy makers from Burkina Faso discussed women’s social reality and necessary policy responses to the problem of unsafe abortion.
