Department of Nutrition
The vision of the department is to understand, prevent, and treat diet-related diseases in a life course and sustainability perspective.
Our goal is to carry out teaching and research at a high international level and be able to recruit both national and international colleagues and students of the highest calibre within our field. We aim to engage in future-oriented research to promote better health and educate clinical nutritionists and doctors with high level of competence in nutrition to work in the health service of the future and to serve the needs of society.
In order to achieve our research goals, we have defined three academic areas of focus:
- Healthy aging
- Obesity, lipids, and cardiovascular diseases
- Cancer and malnutrition
The department is responsible for the nutrition education of medical, nutrition, and dental students. We have approximately 100 employees engaged in numerous research projects in the field of nutritional science.
Teaching at the Department
The Department is responsible for the 5-year master's program in clinical nutrition and for the nutrition education in the medical and dental studies. In the first part of the 5-year master's program in clinical nutrition, nutrition students follow the same curriculum as medical and dental students. The rest of the program is specifically tailored for nutrition students.
Here you can read more about the study programs in clinical nutrition and medicine:
- 5-year master program in clinical nutrition (in Norwegian)
- Professional study in medicine (in Norwegian)
Research at the Department
The Department is strongly positioned in international nutrition research; it's the largest department of nutrition in Europe associated with a medical faculty. We have 13 active research groups. Publication activity is high, with approximately 100 scientific articles published each year. We collaborate with Oslo University Hospital on patient-oriented research and teaching at the Center for Clinical Nutrition.
Research projects mainly involve the fields of nutritional biology, molecular nutrition, clinical nutrition, nutritional epidemiology, diet research and research on policy instruments. The Department's employees frequently lead and/or participate in national and international research projects.
We have state-of-the-art infrastructure that spans the use of epidemiological, clinical, and basic medical studies.
- Core facility for clinical nutrition studies
- The Norwegian trans gene center
- Metabolomic and mass spectrometry
- Dietary methodology (in Norwegian)
Collaboration
The employees of the department is leading or participating in several national and international projects within nutrition science/research.
International
- New Nordic food based dietary guidelines and nutrient recommendations
- NuGO: An Association of Universities and Research Institutes
National
- National council of nutrition (in Norwegian)
- Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment
- Norwegian Journal of Nutrition
- Næringsklyngen Fremtidsmat (in Norwegian)
- National research school in nutrition (NutriNOR)
Fonds and scholarships
The Throne Holst Foundation
The foundation allocates funds and organizes an annual symposium with an evening celebration.
- Announcements (for employees)
- Events
UNIFOR
UNIFOR allocates several nutrition-related funds and scholarships that may be relevant for employees at the Department of Nutritional to apply for. On the department's employee page, there is an overview of the most relevant funds and scholarships that our employees can apply for.
Communication
The department has developed a new communication strategy with the main objective of promoting evidence-based nutrition.
- We are active on social media about new publications.
- We write on Medisinbloggen at the Faculty of Medicine.
- Feel free to follow us on Facebook.
If you are a journalist and would like to get in touch with us, please contact the communication department at the Faculty of Medicine.
Our expertise in nutrition includes the following topics: cancer, cholesterol and cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, malnutrition, children, pregnant women, the elderly, gluten-free diet, and trending diets.