Lorena Arranz has been funded 12 million NOK from the FRIPRO program at the Research Council of Norway to gain more insight into early disease development of blood cancers.
This year, six start-ups and innovation projects participated in the pitching contest taking place at the Norway Life Science Conference.
Elizabeth Smethurst is the new Head of Research Strategy, Communication and International Relations at NCMM.
Professor Emeritus Johan Frederik Storm has led research forming the basis of a scientific article that is causing a stir. The article is the result of 8 years’ collaboration on the EU «Human Brain Project». The aim was to uncover an alternative approach to our understanding of how human consciousness functions.
Associate Professor Stefan Schauber studies the quality of exams and believes that it should be possible to find an alternative to the current practice of setting around 100 questions in exams on the professional medical degree.
Lise Moltzau and colleagues have previously identified several substances that can have a positive impact on blood pressure. In a new study funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, they are testing the effectiveness of one of them to treat high blood pressure.
UiO:Life Science will fund 50 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2024. Students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The application form opened 15 February and has now been closed.
There is a clear correlation between the use of a particular type of antibiotic and the increased prevalence of a multi-resistant E. coli clone. This study illustrates the need for national surveillance systems to monitor antibiotic resistance.
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.
The faculty's Action Plan for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is in place. The faculty’s LIM committee and Helsam’s working group on racism, discrimination and health are now organising a seminar to discuss the way forward. Come to the seminar and have your say on the project.
OBiWoW 2023 brought together the scientific community for practical workshops on bioinformatics tools and pipelines.
Centromeres are essential for healthy cell division. Researchers now reveal the mechanism that allow them to form.
Helene Seljenes Dalum has carried out research on what causes veterinarians to have suicidal thoughts. In June, she completed her doctorate at IMB, which brought her a little nearer to discovering the reasons behind the statistics.
Norway Life Science 2024: Unlocking the Potential of Health Data kicks off 13 -14 February. Carl Henrik Gørbitz, Director UiO:Life Science, promises an exciting programme with the leading experts in health data from home and abroad. Minister of Trade and Industry, Jan Christian Vestre will also participate.
Creating a fair exam system for second-year students on the medical degree during the pandemic was quite a challenge. Now, a study published in BMC Medical Education shows that it was successful.
With funding from the SPARK Social Innovation program, Jan Ivar Røssberg and June Ullevoldsæter Lystad, seeks to develop a VR application to be used in the treatment of patients with serious psychotic disorders.
"We must manage the resources from the project in a way that allows us to achieve something even greater in the future," Professor Vessela Kristensen says. She is Principal Investigator and coordinator of the EU project RESCUER.
The Nordic SPARK programmes attended NLS Days in Copenhagen. This year there were 30 projects and alumni from Denmark, Finland and Norway participating.
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.
The EATRIS-Plus Staff Exchange Programme brings postdoctoral researcher Vipin Kumar to the Sahlen group at SciLifeLab, to help uncover the role of long non-coding RNA in gene regulation.
The link was found in a Norwegian mother-child cohort study of breastmilk and confirmed in zebrafish models.
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2024!
Thesis “Effects of perineuronal nets on conductive and capacitive properties of neurons: Computational studies”
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Thesis title: “Extracellular Matric Molecules, Brain Plasticity, and Advancements in Calcium Imaging of Neural Activity ”
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