2023

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday 21 June was the official opening of the new Centre of Excellence (CoE), PRIMA. The Centre's aim is to develop new and more effective immunotherapy that will improve cancer treatment and cure more patients.

The Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT) has throughout its ten years as a Centre of Excellence (CoE) been a hub for knowledge development and capacity building.

In the EU project PERMANENS, the aim is to develop software that will help clinicians to prevent suicide when working with patients.

Institutional investment in collaboration with South Africa paved the way for new studies on tuberculosis. Anne Margarita Dyrhol-Riise believes that international research collaboration is important and should be stimulated.