Norway Life Science 2024 gathers leading actors in health and life science, to find the solutions that will allow Norway to get more in return from the large investments in health research.
A new Norwegian network for Planetary Health will raise awareness of the interdependent relationship between human health and the health of the planet.
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Youxian Li, receives NOK eight million through the Research Council's program Research project for young talents (FRIPRO). In his project, Li aims to understand how cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) mediate cell death in cancer.
Since its release 20 years ago, JASPAR has provided researchers with access to regularly updated and experimentally curated transcription factor binding profiles. The 10th update of JASPAR now expands this widely used resource even further.
The Global Health Norway Conference 2023 left attendees with a renewed sense of optimism and determination to contribute to the fight for health equity. It provided a platform to discuss, learn, and reflect on the lessons from the pandemic and the steps needed to build resilient and equitable health systems.
In his project, Greiff will attempt to understand the rules of antibody-antigen binding, and how this knowledge can be used to develop effective therapeutic antibodies and vaccines.
Norwegian Cancer Society allocates around NOK 71 million to MED researchers
Four new projects have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme in health-related life science, SPARK Norway. One of them won the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2023.
Noëlle Streeton at the Faculty of Humanities and Victor Greiff at the Faculty of Medicine have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.
If you are a bachelor or master student and answer the Studiebarometeret within the 26 of November you are in the running of winning a gift card. The study program with the highest response rate gets cake or pizza.
Biswajyoti Sahu, Marieke Kuijjer and Anthony Mathelier have each been awarded funding as part of the Norwegian Cancer Society’s annual main call.
The conference is on Medical and Legal Knowledge and the Problematic of Translation, March 6–7, 2024. Deadline for submission: December 10, 2023.
The Centre for Global Health is opening up for applications for one additional Research ExceLlence and Innovation in Global HealTh (RELIGHT) project for the 2022-2024 period. The application deadline was 22 November 2023.
Professor Nils Chr. Stenseth, deputy head of the Center for Pandemics and One-Health Research (P1H) at SUSTAINIT, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant of ten million euros for plague research.
Harald Stenmark receives the award for his pioneering research in the field of cancer. He has particularly focused on proteins that are central to cell division and to the regulation of the cells' sorting system. Both these processes are critical to understand the cellular events underlying cancer.
The SHE Corpus is a new resource developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education to enable students and researchers to investigate the key concepts that underpin the practice and ethos of modern medicine as well as the discourses on sustainability in the field of healthcare.
This September, it will be five years since the very first post was published on the Medicine Blog. Since then, more than a hundred of the faculty’s researchers have informed a wide audience about their research. Maybe you will be next?
MEDRA is an acronym for The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights on the Debate about Abortion. MEDRA is a research group in SHE with funding from UiO:Democracy.
This summer 48 students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science. The closure of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
Why is there such great variation in the health status of older people? Associate Professor Evandro Fei Fang leads a research collaboration to investigate this question.
As part of Forskningsdagene, representatives from NCMM gave visiting students and families insight into working with zebrafish in the lab.
Researchers have found a way to make pancreatic cells from completely different cell types. This will be an important tool for accelerating the discovery of new treatments of pancreatic cancer.
The SPARK Nordic programmes participated together for the first time at Nordic Innovation Fair in Copenhagen 25-26 September.
Women in Global Health Norway is happy to welcome Tore Godal as our new Goodwill Ambassador. Tore Godal's contributions to global health throughout his career cannot be overstated.
The 12th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership brought together members from all four Nordic nodes to Espoo, Finland on 11-14 September 2023.
