People who travel a lot account for a much greater proportion of the spread of dangerous, resistant bacteria than we previously thought.
Frode Norheim, new Associate Professor at IBMS, identifies genes that could cause serious liver disease.
Plamena Markova, Head of International Relations at EMBL, shares some insight into her role and how politics goes hand in hand with enabling scientific research.
Researchers in Finland and Norway have discovered a gene defect that causes a novel inherited immune deficiency
Below you will find some practical information about opening hours and services available at the institute during the Easter holidays.
UiO:Life Science does not offer its own courses or study programs in life sciences, but wants to contribute to providing the students with the best possible educational programs. Departments and faculties can now apply for support to develop interdisciplinary bachelor courses in life sciences. The application deadline is 1 April.
Earth’s first protocells could have spontaneously formed their own “bubble-like” compartments. This may give us an idea of how cell division evolved.
The Centre warmly welcomes the three new researchers who have joined NCMM in recent months
The EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Council helps to guide EMBL's operations, administratively and scientifically.
The postdoctoral programme launched its new mentoring programme with over 40 participants. A long-sought measure to enhance networks and skills.
UiO has entered into a collaborative agreement with the pharmaceutical company Roche to strengthen innovation within the field of life sciences.
The Faculty of Medicine are currently recruiting approximately 40 international research talents to excellent research environments.
The JASPAR and UniBind databases will be promoted by ELIXIR Norway as part of a growing resource of tools and services offered to the Norwegian research community
Stine Marie Ulven took over as the new Head of the Department of Nutrition from 1st January. You can read about her ambitions for the Department here.
Whilst there has been good progress in treating many types of childhood cancer, some remain incurable. New precision medicine approach offers hope for young patients diagnosed with a rare and incurable brain tumour.
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.
Dr. Gözen becomes the first ambassador from the Nordic countries for the prestigious international scientific society
Group Leader, Dr. Marieke Kuijjer, awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet)
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or Master’s student in life sciences and interested in career opportunities beyond academia? Sign up for Young Talents on 16 February! You will hear inspiring talks by director general in Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) Ingunn Midttun Godal, in addition to speakers from DNV GL, AstraZeneca, Mowi, Norsvin and entrepreneur Morten Isaksen from Bio-Me.
A reliable sense of space is essential for daily life and memory formation. Breaking down the extracellular matrix around grid cells makes the mental map unstable [Nature Communications 11th of January, 2021].
UiO:Life Science has announced a new call for funding of new convergence environments and will in this round fund five to six interdisciplinary research groups. Researchers from all units at UiO are welcome to participate in the application round.
The CompSci program at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo will recruit 32 PhD fellowship positions in two calls.
"Free project support" (FRIPRO) is aimed at "particularly skilled researchers" at various stages of their careers. The faculty management congratulates our 20 researchers who received support in the 2020 award.
Read about the work of Elise Holter Thompson at Forskning.no (Norwegian only): Lagring av minner i hjernen – hva kan det si oss om demens?