Harald Stenmark receives the award for his pioneering research in the field of cancer. He has particularly focused on proteins that are central to cell division and to the regulation of the cells' sorting system. Both these processes are critical to understand the cellular events underlying cancer.
The SHE Corpus is a new resource developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education to enable students and researchers to investigate the key concepts that underpin the practice and ethos of modern medicine as well as the discourses on sustainability in the field of healthcare.
This September, it will be five years since the very first post was published on the Medicine Blog. Since then, more than a hundred of the faculty’s researchers have informed a wide audience about their research. Maybe you will be next?
MEDRA is an acronym for The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights on the Debate about Abortion. MEDRA is a research group in SHE with funding from UiO:Democracy.
This summer 48 students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science. The closure of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
Why is there such great variation in the health status of older people? Associate Professor Evandro Fei Fang leads a research collaboration to investigate this question.
As part of Forskningsdagene, representatives from NCMM gave visiting students and families insight into working with zebrafish in the lab.
Researchers have found a way to make pancreatic cells from completely different cell types. This will be an important tool for accelerating the discovery of new treatments of pancreatic cancer.
The SPARK Nordic programmes participated together for the first time at Nordic Innovation Fair in Copenhagen 25-26 September.
Women in Global Health Norway is happy to welcome Tore Godal as our new Goodwill Ambassador. Tore Godal's contributions to global health throughout his career cannot be overstated.
The 12th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership brought together members from all four Nordic nodes to Espoo, Finland on 11-14 September 2023.
Hepatitis B virus takes nearly one million lives every year, mainly in east Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where people usually acquire the infection in early childhood. People infected with hepatitis B virus rarely have symptoms before they have developed end-stage liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. Therefore, few know that they are infected and even fewer receive life-saving antiviral treatment.
Sissel Eikvar joined NCMM in August as the new health, safety and environment-coordinator.
From fall 2023, master’s students at the University of Oslo can strengthen their education with an Honours certificate in sustainable health.
Circle U. alliance is building a shared virtual campus for students and staff. SUSTAINIT Head Eivind Engebretsen has been appointed Dean of the Open Campus and will lead the work.
Calling all students, academics, researchers and healthcare personnel in Norway! We invite you to participate in this picture competition about a world after antibiotics, an exciting opportunity to showcase your creativity and research prowess. Deadline October 20.
Are you a master's student and want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship? Now you can apply for admisson to the newly established honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. The application deadline is 15 October. Start-up will be January 2024.
Do you want to participate in an exciting and innovative center and shape the University of Oslo's (UiO's) global health agenda? We are looking for two students to be change agents in health in order to include the UN's sustainability goals in future health decisions - in the face of, for example, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, the wave of the elderly and overtreatment. Application deadline October 22th 2023.
Charlotte Boccara is awarded 1.5 million euros for the project SleepCog. The aim is to determine how important sleep is for the healthy development of the brain.
Professor Johanna Olweus has been selected for the final of the Cancer Grand Challenges as part of a global research team. If successful, the team hopes to contribute in giving cancer patients new therapies.
Do you want to contribute to a new and exciting center and shape tomorrow's solutions? The Center for Pandemic and One Health Research (P1H) at the University of Oslo is looking for curious students who are ready to take on the role of 'Change Agents' for one of the greatest challenges of our time.
Are you a scientist working on health-related topics in the life science domain? Do you have an idea for a new solution or technology with innovation potential, but need help to take the next steps? Apply for UiO:Life Science’s two-year innovation programme SPARK Norway. The deadline was 9 November 2023.
The Kuijjer group present PORCUPINE, a computational tool for pinpointing drivers of cancer heterogeneity that may guide personalized cancer treatment.
Elizabeth Surgucheva, a freshly graduated bachelor in biosciences, spent the summer at our lab putting theory into practice while participating in one of our research projects.
With the selection of “Circle U. 2030”, a new four-year project funded by the Erasmus+ 2023 call for European Universities, the achievements, efforts and ambition of Circle U. have been acknowledged. With a €12.8m grant, Circle U. will continue building the university of tomorrow, the Circle U. Open Campus. The new initiative will be led by SUSTAINIT Head, Eivind Engebretsen.
