Per Oskar Andersen passed away at the age of 90 at his home on 17th February. Norway has lost one its leading neuroscientists and the Institute a valued colleague.
Thanks to all who attended the 5-year anniversary of the Oslo Life Science Conference! Several of the events were filmed, so if you missed any of them, or want to see them again, you may watch them now.
The new Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre at the University of Oslo will investigate causes and treatment options for autism and other developmental disorders.
Five postdocs have been awarded Scientia Fellowships to undertake research projects in four different research groups at NCMM.
Several members of NCMM's Gözen group attended the 64th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, California in February, where PhD student Elif Köksal received a student research achievement award for her poster presentation.
As part of the Oslo Life Science Conference in February 2020, the Stenmark and Gözen groups exhibited a range of their engaging microscopy images at Oslo’s Kunstplass Contemporary Art Exhibition Space.
NCMM is delighted to announce that Dr Sebastian Waszak has been recruited as a new group leader for Precision Medicine. Dr Waszak will join us in March 2020 and comes from the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany. He will establish and head the Computational Oncology group at NCMM.
Stefan Krauss, Hanne Scholz, Steven Wilson and Carl Henrik Gørbitz have written an article on the centre's work on developing organ on a chip technology in Aftenposten.
As part of the Oslo Life Science Conference in February 2020, the Gözen group at NCMM are exhibiting a range of their engaging microscopy images at Oslo’s Kunstplass Contemporary Art Exhibition Space.
Aleksandra Dukic (Klinmed), Mari Mohn Paulsen (IMB), Kåre-Olav Stensløkken (IMB) and Christer Tønnesen (Helsam) are the leaders of four new groups in the innovation programme SPARK Norway at UiO:Life Science.
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 new study, published this week in the open access journal Cell Communication and Signaling, was led by the autophagy team at NCMM.
An article entitled “m6A RNA modification as a new player in R-loop regulation”, by the Dynamic Gene Regulation research group led by Arne Klungland at IMB, was published in the January edition of Nature Genetics.
NCMM was deeply saddened to receive the news that our friend and former colleague Professor Erlend A. Nagelhus passed away whilst on a skiing trip in Sørkedalen on January 10th 2020.
IMB remembers our dear colleague Erlend A. Nagelhus, who passed away on Friday January 10th 2020. Our thoughts and deepest sympathy go to his family and close friends.
'Seminar on novel probes and AI technology for brain-machine interfaces'
We are excited to announce two seminars on January 16th and the defense of Alessio Buccino on the 17th, all in Bikuben, Kristine Bonnevies' hus, Blindern.
In their new study, recently published in the journal Molecular Neurobiology, the Esguerra group establishes a zebrafish model to investigate the function of the CACNA1A gene.
Hanne Scholz is one of the editors for the upcoming Frontiers in Genetics Research issue on the topic: Beta-Cell Fate: From Gene Circuits to Disease Mechanisms.
Doctoral candidate Alessio Paolo Buccino at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis“A computationally-assisted approach to neural extracellular electrophysiology with multi-electrode arrays”for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
If you want to maintain a stabile weight, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, then daily consumption of nuts is recommended, not only for Christmas, but all year round.
Congratulations to Dr Emma Haapaniemi, head of the Precision Pediatrics and Gene Editing Group at NCMM, who this week received funding from both the Research Council of Norway and South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst).
Under you will find some practical information on opening hours and availability of the different administrative services at the institute during the Christmas holidays.
A new study featuring NCMM group leader Marieke Kuijjer reports that mutations within non-coding DNA (so called 'junk' DNA) are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer.
Aortic valve calcification is a challenging condition for the health service and for the patients concerned. The only treatment currently available is surgery. Mariia Boganova recently defended her thesis which addresses the options available for future pharmacological treatment.
Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority have awarded Hybrid Technology Hub members Jo Waaler and Stefan a grant of 1 000 000 NOK for theproject "Tankyrase Inhibiton in Cancer Immunotherapy"