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The NCMM Annual Report for 2017 is now available to view online

Nordic EMBL Partner centre, MIMS (Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden) has announced that that Dr. Oliver Billker from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, has been recruited as the centre's future director

Professor Harald Stenmark from the University of Oslo (UiO) is to receive an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on cancer. Two other people in Norway have previously received ERC Advanced Grants on two occasions.

UiO:Life Science shall recruit, educate and develop talents. Before Christmas the initiative announced that students could apply for summer research projects. The board has decided that as many as 66 students will be offered a project in 2018.

With the new Centre for B cell malignancies, the Faculty now hosts six active K.G. Jebsen Centres.

Under you will find some practical information on opening hours and availability of the different administrative services at the institute during the Easter holidays.

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is increasing, with people dying due to a lack of effective antibiotic treatment. Researchers from all over the world have joined together to form the EU-funded anTBiotic consortium to discover new drugs and better treatment regimens

The Faculty of Medicine has received funding for a new, major international postdoctoral programme – Scientia Fellows II – in which both career development for young and promising researchers and innovation are important cornerstones. Major partners from the health industry are collaborating partners.

NCMM’s Associate and Young Associate Investigators, Group Leaders and stakeholders gathered at Oslo’s Grand Hotel for the third annual NCMM Network Meeting on the 26 and 27 February.

The University of Helsinki has recruited Professor Mark Daly, of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, to lead Nordic EMBL Partner the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM).

Karl-Johan Malmberg, Hua Hu and Tor Erik Rusten are the leaders for the three medical projects receiving funding. Malmberg and the University of Oslo received a visit from the new Minister of Research and Higher Education.

The University of Oslo is now seeking outstanding candidates for the position of Centre Director of NCMM.

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 study programmes will educate future health professionals with the necessary skills to meet future needs. The faculty has met employers and listened to what they want.

Grant awarded to Irep Gözen for her project: Nano- and Micro-Materials Interfaces for Migratory Artificial Cells.

Neurons’ sugar coating is essential for long-term memories

How the brain is able to store memories over long periods of time has been a persistent mystery to neuroscientists. In a new study, researchers from the Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity (CINPLA) at the University of Oslo show that long-lived extracellular matrix molecules called perineuronal nets are essential for distant memories.

The new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that removal of the nets disrupts distant but not recent memories. 

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/21/1713530115

Ragnhild Lothe has stepped down as Chair, and will be replaced by Jens Petter Berg

Trial to determine how aspirin can improve disease free survival in patients treated with resection for colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRCLM) is now underway.

7 of 32 approved applications for research projects at FRIMEDBIO come from the Faculty of Medicine. In addition, four young research talents from the Faculty have been given support.

The Faculty has given the education award to professor Jan Frich for his long-standing and important commitment to educating health managers at all levels of the health service in line with society's needs and wishes. 

This year’s award for quality and innovation in the professional programme of study in medicine goes to Jonn Terje Geitung for his innovative form of teaching in several subject areas.

The new innovation programme SPARK Norway at UiO has admitted the first research groups – so called SPARKees. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences further for the benefit of patients and society. 

Researchers from Norway have participated in a study that explores Short QT Syndrome, a genetic disease of the heart’s electrical system

Under you will find some practical information on opening hours and availability of the different administrative services at the institute during the Christmas holidays.

Science communication took on a whole new meaning when NCMM Group Leader, Irep Gözen, head of the Bionanotechnology and Membrane Systems Group, addressed thousands of students on Wednesday 6 December.