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The Nordic EMBL Partnership Coordination and Operations team assembled in Oslo for two days to advance joint initiatives.

In Norway, we often look to other countries when we talk about innovation and business in the field of life sciences. We still have a lot to learn from other countries, but a lot of good things is happening in the innovation ecosystem for life sciences in Oslo that we can be proud of, and that others are curious about and want to learn from.

In Norway, a third of the fish we produce is used for animal feed. This could better be used for human consumption, providing more vitamin B12 and selenium, a new study shows.

Three Ukrainian researchers will have the opportunity to work in Charlotte Boccara’s, Espen Melum’s and Johannes Hov’s laboratories. They hope that more research communities will have the opportunity to welcome visiting researchers from Ukraine.

Are you impressed when NASA manages to calculate the time and speed of a rocket’s trajectory? A new study shows that your brain has a “nerd centre” capable of even more complex calculations.

Are you impressed when NASA manages to calculate the time and speed of a rocket’s trajectory? A new study shows that your brain has a “nerd centre” capable of even more complex calculations.

Are you a researcher within life sciences, health or technology? Do you have an innovative idea for a new product, solution or technology, but need help to develop it further? The Life Science Growth House can help you take the next steps! Check our call for seed funding. We will grant funding for up to 35 projects. Application deadline: 24 May 2022.

Are you a student within life sciences, health or technology? Do you have an innovative idea for a new product, solution or technology, but need help to develop it further? The Life Science Growth House can help you take the next steps! Check our call. We will grant funding for up to 20 projects. Application deadline: 24 May 2022.

Ieva Rauluševičiūtė is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Mathelier group at NCMM. She recently spent one month with the groups of Dr Judith Zaugg and Dr Arnaud Krebs at the EMBL Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany.

Wednesday 20 April it was time to celebrate the new projects that have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway. At the same time the Vaccibody Innovation Award was presented for the first time.

Health and life sciences is one of four thematic areas in Norway's first innovation district Oslo Science City. ‘Oslo Science City and the strong members are important to us. Together, we will develop the Growth House to become an innovation engine in Oslo Science City’, says the director of the Growth House, Hilde Nebb.

This new training course is a perfect tool in your journey to advance your leadership development and professional capability. 

Through a number of services from the newly established Life Science Growth House, we facilitate increased innovation in life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo (UiO). Our new innovation meeting place for the innovation ecosystem will stimulate networking and collaboration that can contribute to more knowledge from research at UiO being put to use and benefiting patients and society.

NCMM is delighted to announce that Dr Charlotte Boccara has been recruited as a new group leader under the Centre’s precision medicine umbrella. Dr Boccara will join us in April 2022 . She will establish and head the Systems Neuroscience & Sleep group at NCMM, aiming to decode sleep function in healthy development.

Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale has become part of a prestigious group of cancer researchers as a newly elected Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy

In 2017, something completely new happened at the University of Oslo, the first convergence environments were created under the auspices of UiO:Life Science. The six interdisciplinary research groups that were selected after a thorough application process were to solve major societal challenges in health and the environment. Wednesday 30 March was the closing event and time to share experience and results.

In this article, we meet NCMM Group Leader and Zebrafish Core Facility Leader, Camila Esguerra, and learn about the power of zebrafish as a model organism and the core facility she directs at the University of Oslo.

NCMM is delighted to announce that Dr Biswajyoti Sahu has been recruited as a new group leader for Precision Medicine. Dr Sahu will join us in September 2022 from the University of Helsinki, Finland. 

The room around you sways up and down and you feel seasick. While searching for the cause of dizziness, scientists at UiO have developed a new method for spinning things under a microscope and registering the activity in brain cells in movement. 

If the blood supply to your brain decreases, it can trigger Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists at UiO wanted to find out whether this leads to more or fewer blood vessels and what role one particular protein plays in such a process.

We invite you to a pleasant gathering for our first convergence environments on Wednesday 30 March in Sophus Lie's auditorium. There will be presentations, panel discussion, mingling and tapas. Everyone who is interested in interdisciplinary research and collaboration is welcome!

NCMM Group Leader Sebastian Waszak and his team are advancing the understanding of childhood brain tumor evolution, exploring new approaches to molecular diagnostics, and utilizing knowledge gained from clinical cancer genomics.

On 8 March 2022, the University Board decided to appoint Hans Mossin as the new Director of the Faculty of Medicine.

The Life Science Growth House and business clusters kick off innovation hangouts where researchers, students and businesses can build networks. In this way, we will facilitate collaboration that puts more research from UiO to use for the benefit of patients and society.

The Life Science Growth House and dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science will strengthen the innovation culture at UiO and contribute to making Oslo Science Park an even more holistic ecosystem for innovation where business and academia meet. Aim: Put knowledge from research into use!