Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE)
OCBE is a joint center integrating the activities of the Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo and the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo University Hospital.
OCBE News
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When AI Meets Research: How Do We Ensure Quality and Trust? Oct. 2, 2026 2:05 PM
Artificial intelligence is transforming how research is planned, analyzed, and conducted. At the same time, the technology raises important questions regarding quality, documentation, accountability, and privacy.
These issues were central when more than 100 researchers and statisticians from across the Nordic region recently gathered for a workshop organized by the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) to discuss artificial intelligence in biomedical research.
Read the news article published on the Oslo University Hospital webpages (in Norwegian).
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Awarded NOK 10 million for research on a candidate vaccine against ear infections Sep. 30, 2026 10:50 AM
Ear infections lead to extensive use of antibiotics, which in turn contributes to antibiotic resistance. Professor Jukka Corander has now been awarded NOK 10 million to research a vaccine against the bacterium H. influenzae.
OCBE Events
Biostatistical seminar with Nial Friel, Professor of Statistics, University College Dublin (Ireland)
Biostatistical seminar with Julie Josse, Senior Researcher, French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), France.
Biostatistical seminar with Rowland Seymour, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Birmingham (UK) and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
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About
OCBE addresses all aspects of biostatistics, from methodological research to advanced supervision and research-based statistical advising towards all areas of medicine and health related research, from clinical and epidemiological research, to molecular biology and other basic medical sciences.
OCBE’s research covers a broad spectrum of modern biostatistics, data science and epidemiology. Main research activities are in statistical machine learning and high-dimensional statistics, longitudinal and time to event data, measurement uncertainty, evidence synthesis, causal inference, clinical trials, observational studies, statistical genomics and big data. OCBE researchers develop statistical and research methodology for modern biomedical research and its application to the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical, epidemiological and other biomedical studies and data.
OCBE provides research-based statistical advising and training for researchers and students of the Medical Faculty of the University of Oslo, of the Oslo University Hospital and of South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (HSØ).
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Postal address
P.O.Box 1122 Blindern
0317 Oslo
Visiting address
Domus Medica
Gaustad
Sognsvannsveien 9
0372 Oslo
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