Group leader Sebastian Waszak receives 2 million NOK from the Norwegian Cancer Society for his proposed Pioneer Project. The goal of the project is to find new treatment strategies for DIPG, by establishing novel zebrafish models of this aggressive type of brain tumor.
A new study by the Mathelier group and collaborators has found a way to predict genes that may be associated with cancer by looking at mutations in areas of the genome that do not code for proteins.
Six new teams have been admitted to UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.
Nikoline is the new communications officer at NCMM and started on 16 January.
As the new Head of Unit of SUSTAINIT, I feel incredibly proud and privileged to launch this new initiative with such a great team. At the seminar we started the important process of defining our identity, articulating our ambition, and identifying some core dilemmas and attention points, says Prof Eivind Engebretsen.
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 2023!
The UiO Growth House, dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ‘Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking’, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.
Every year, many people get ill from the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, and some variants are resistant to nearly all kinds of antibiotics. A team of scientists have now found out more about how infections from these variants arise.
2022 has indeed been an eventful year for SHE. Collaboration with other entities has increased, a new unit is established and grants are awarded.
The first ever Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week was hosted at the University of Oslo in December, with Roza Berhanu Lemma and Tatiana Belova from NCMM among the organisers.
UiO:Life Science will fund educational summer research projects for 40 students between April and September 2023 for students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at UiO. We now invite you to suggest projects for one or two students. The application deadline was 1 February 2023.
UiO:Life Science will fund 40 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2023. Students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The application form opened 17 January and is now closed as we have received maximum of registrants.
The Faculty of Medicine has appointed a committee to be a driving force for initiatives within gender equality and diversity. On December 13, they had their first meeting.
The national programme for clinical treatment research – KLINBEFORSK - has allocated research funds to Haapaniemi group for developing CRISPR-Cas9 gene therapy for STAT1 Gain-of-Function disease.
The Sustainable Health Unit, a new knowledge cluster at MED, was approved in the Medical Faculty Board on 13 December 2022. The unit will highlight challenges, discussions and sustainable solutions to global and local health issues.
Over five days in December, NCMM hosted a PhD course introducing new approaches to multi-omic data analyses.
The four-day workshop organised by NCMM and NorMIC Imaging Platform, IBV, included both theoretical presentations and hands-on lab sessions.
Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.
Several NCMM members were the driving force behind arranging a recent RSG Norway panel talk.
Students from the University of Oslo do complex tasks and contribute with their knowledge and expertise at the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
EATRIS-plus staff exchange programme is enabling Dr. Esguerra's visit to discuss a potential collaboration.
New possibilities for treating rare diseases by optimising precise gene editing with CRISPR-Cas9
AstraZeneca, the SPARK Norway programme at University of Oslo and Oslo Cancer Cluster enter a new mentoring collaboration for life science start-ups.
The two-week long national course took place at the Oslo Science Park 7 – 18 November.
The Norway Life Science 2023 conference brings together key actors for developing a world-leading healthcare industry in Norway. The theme of the conference is interaction between health, technology and society.
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