2025

Nikolina Sekulic is delighted to have been awarded FRIPRO funding to study the regions in fish that ensure chromosomes are correctly distributed during cell division.

Anna Chaimani will work on novel statistical methods and software tools that will facilitate the production of more precise and up-to-date clinical guidelines for treatment and prevention of health diseases.

Asbjørn Christophersen at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences receives the award for his research on disease-specific T cells.

You are about to open a door. How does your brain decide whether to push or pull the door? Matthijs Dorst receives 10 million kroner in FRIPRO funding for research on this part of the brain.

What happens when the brain is no longer able to recreate memories of what happened, and where and when? Jørgen Afseth Sugar receives 22 million to research this topic. 

A vibrant atmosphere filled the halls as researchers and students gathered for the annual IMB Science Fair. The event is an excellent platform for presenting and discussing the institute's latest research, and the day culminated with awards for two outstanding projects.

Arnoldo Frigessi will be developing a new AI method for the early detection of cancer in patients with Lynch syndrome. Hanne Cathrine Lie will be contributing to a project developing following-up care for people who have survived cancer in young adulthood.

The bacterium Klebsiella can cause pneumonia and blood poisoning and many patients become infected while they are in hospital. Now the Research Council of Norway’s FRIPRO fund has awarded Jessica Calland ten million kroners to carry out research on this insidious  bacterium.

Kirsten Grundt, Ingunn Mørk Jermstad, and Helene Tandberg at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences have been awarded the University of Oslo's Health, safety and environment prize.

Sandip Kanse, professor of biochemistry and Célia Seillier, postdoctoral fellow at IMB will be carrying out research into what happens when further damage occurs in the brain after a stroke. Their project will receive a grant of 3.2 million kroners spread over two years and is one of 16 projects at UiO that were recently awarded MSCA funding from the EU.

The national infrastructure NORBRAIN has given us new knowledge about spatial awareness, memory and brain cleansing while we sleep. Researchers at NTNU, UiO and UiB, under the leadership of Nobel laureate Edvard Moser, make sure that Norwegian brain scientists can deliver results of internationally excellent calibre.

Valeria Vitelli will be developing statistical learning methods for the integration of complex and structured datasets, to be used in cancer genomics. Harry Thorpe will be studying how plasmids help bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics.