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– I am working on rare genetic diseases called laminopathies, caused by a specific mutation, Nolwenn Briand says. She is one of the 82 postdoctoral fellows at the Scientia Fellows programme.

What a year! These are the highlights of the programme from 2017.

At the School of health innovation, participants will gain knowledge, tools and networks that will enhance their ability to solve future health challenges and further develop the healthcare system.

– The «moonshot» of my research is to find new therapeutic strategies to cure triple-negative breast cancer that is a challenging disease with the poorest prognosis of all breast cancer subtypes, Enrico Catalano says. 

Postdoctoral fellows from the Scientia Fellows programme and friends participated in this year`s Holmenkoll relay. 

– My goal is to run personalized computer simulations able to predict the effect of the therapy in a given patient, mathematician Alvaro Köhn-Luque says. He is one of the 82 postdoctoral fellows at the Scientia Fellows programme at the faculty.

The School of Health Innovation will help new ideas to germinate and be developed more rapidly by our health researchers, and enhance innovative thinking and culture at the Faculty,’ says Hilde Nebb, Pro-Dean. 

– Candidates are able to develop skills in world-leading research communities, and then join us and enrich our community with expertise that we have a specific need for, host Tom Hemming Karlsen says.

Mentoring groups and career counselling are some of the options open to postdoctoral fellows at the faculty through the Postdoctoral Programme.

Elleke Landeweer is working in Norway on a two-year research project in medical ethics. The funding was sourced through Scientia Fellows.

Researchers from a wide variety of research fields and all over the world have joined the Scientia Fellows postdoctoral programme. Corina Rueegg is one of them. 

Researchers from a wide variety of research fields and all over the world have joined the Scientia Fellows postdoctoral programme. Kulbhushan Sharma is one of them. 

Researchers from a wide variety of research fields and all over the world have joined the Scientia Fellows postdoctoral programme. Dinh-Toi Chu is one of them. 

Researchers from a wide variety of research fields and all over the world have joined the Scientia Fellows postdoctoral programme. Bernadin Ndongson Dongmo is one of them. 

Researchers from a wide variety of research fields and all over the world have joined the Scientia Fellows postdoctoral programme. Anastasia Renzi is one of them.