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.
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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.
Researchers at NCMM have demonstrated the mechanisms behind the activation of Aurora B, a central conductor of cell division. Their findings can lay the foundations for developing new cancer drugs.
Now students who want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship can take an honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. From 15 September it will possible to apply for admission, the application deadline is 15 October. The studies will start in January 2024.
How can everyone at the faculty work to integrate global sustainability into both education and research? This was the topic when the Faculty of Medicine at UiO hosted a seminar on sustainability and global perspectives.
Computer science student Espen Lønes has gone straight from a busy spring semester to new challenges - he is one of 48 students who receive a grant from UiO:Life Sciences to contribute to a research project this summer.
On the 14th to 15th of June, NCMM and Associate Investigators gathered at Strömstad Spa, Sweden, for two days of excellent scientific talks and networking.
See below for information about opening hours and services available at the Institute during the summer.
The NCMM annual report for 2022 is now published online
Anders Jahre's Main Award for 2023 is awarded to Professor Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen. Anders Jahre's prize for young researchers is given to Assistant Professor Marcus Buggert, Karolinska Institutet.
This May NorMIC celebrated the 10th workshop in a series that has established it as an important Nordic platform for biomedical researchers to gain scientific knowledge on optical microscopy.
SPARK Nordic visited Silicon Valley at the end of April. In total there where 19 participants from SPARK Norway and SPARK Finland. The purpose of the trip was to introduce the Nordic SPARK projects to the opportunities available in Silicon Valley and give them the opportunity to build their own networks and market understanding.
The faculty is allocating just under NOK 1.7 million to stimulate academic development and research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.
The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine gathered in Helsinki to celebrate the signing of a renewed 10-year agreement between EMBL and the Universities of Oslo, Helsinki, Århus and Umeå.
The Women's Careers and Empowerment in Global Health seminar in Kathmandu, Nepal on March 26, 2023 addressed gender inequality in leadership positions in academia, non-governmental institutions, and private sector institutions related to global health and how to empower women in the field.
The Seahorse XFe96 is now up and running as a shared instrument at NCMM. Two external groups from Oslo University Hospital are already using the instrument regularly and happy with the results.
The Nordic SPARK programs which include UiO:Life Science' innovation program SPARK Norway, have successfully collaborated over several years to boost the emergence of new innovative solutions in the health tech and life science field. Collaboration in mentoring of the projects started a few years ago, and we are now building the next level joint efforts.
April 12 was a workshop day for the Sustainit unit, where employees from all three centers discussed values and exchanged interests in various projects.
The new Master course, Politics of Sustainability in Public Health, is a joint effort between SHE and Circle U. It caters to Master of Public Health students at UiO, as well as MA Circle U. students from various disciplines who share an interest in the political dimensions of sustainability within public health.
Three Research Excellence and Innovation in Global Health (RELIGHT) projects were awarded funding for the 2022-2024 period. After one year, the three groups have provided a report outlining activities and progress.
The word “brainwashing” usually triggers negative associations. But our brain health for sure depends on it. Scientists at the University of Oslo have recently made new and important discoveries about how and why this happens when we are sleeping.
Eating nuts and seeds frequently can reduce the risk of heart disease, shows a major new study review.
For the last 3 months I have been a visiting lecturer at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas.
Professor Christoph Koch is a world-reknowned neuroscientist currently working as Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute in Seattle. While visiting he will give two open seminars:
The Physical Substrate of Consciousness – Progress and Problems
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?