2024

Associate Professor Victor Greiff and researcher Fridtjof Lund-Johansen have established a pipeline where advanced biotechnology is combined with artificial intelligence to develop antibody-based therapeutics. Now they are collaborating with pioneering biotechnology company Genmab.

Åsne Rambøl Hillestad, a medical photographer at the University of Oslo, has been awarded both gold and silver in the Institute of Medical Illustrators (IMI) photography competition.

Shahram Bahrami and his colleagues have been granted NOK 12 million for Alzheimers’s research from the Research Council of Norway’s FRIPRO program Research Project for Experienced Scientists.

Associate Professor Johanne Tracey Jacobsen receives the award for her research on the germinal center reaction and for discovering novel mechanisms underlying this process.

Since its inception six years ago, the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Coeliac Disease Research has established itself as a world-leading centre for translational research on coeliac disease. The centre has developed numerous new diagnostic tools and initiated multiple clinical studies.

Postdoctoral researcher Dennis van der Meer and his colleagues are awarded 8 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway’s FRIPRO program Research Project for Young Talents.

Lorena Arranz has been funded 12 million NOK from the FRIPRO program at the Research Council of Norway to gain more insight into early disease development of blood cancers.

Lise Moltzau and colleagues have previously identified several substances that can have a positive impact on blood pressure. In a new study funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, they are testing the effectiveness of one of them to treat high blood pressure. 

With funding from the SPARK Social Innovation program, Jan Ivar Røssberg and June Ullevoldsæter Lystad, seeks to develop a VR application to be used in the treatment of patients with serious psychotic disorders.

"We must manage the resources from the project in a way that allows us to achieve something even greater in the future," Professor Vessela Kristensen says. She is Principal Investigator and coordinator of the EU project RESCUER.