Current matters - Page 5

UiO:Life Science funds activities that strengthen the collaboration with international research environments.

Brita B?ckmann is the new Senior Executive Officer at the Student office, Section for Administrative Services at the Department of Biosciences. From Norway.

Wanyi Wei is a new PhD candidate at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) in the Department of Biosciences. From China.

This spring researchers at three departments at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences are offered in-house innovation guidance from the UiO Growth House.

Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from The UiO Growth House! The application deadline was 20 March 2025. Now the Growth House is evaluating the applications.

Clare M. Andvik from IBV has been awarded for the best presentation in toxicology at the NSFT winter meeting. Her talk focused on the impact of pollutants and whale-watching boats on orcas.

Five new teams are ready for UiO:Life Science's innovation programme for health-related life sciences, SPARK Norway. The teams will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.

The Honours Certificate in Life Science Innovation was offered for the first time at the University of Oslo last year, and already 14 students have successfully completed the programme and earned the certificate.

From 11 to 12 February, the Norway Life Science 2025 will take place, with health data and artificial intelligence as the main themes. This year's conference promises to challenge and find solutions for the future, featuring a programme filled with leading experts.

We are now inviting researchers at the MN faculty to register their interest in participating in this spring's call for REAL art, with a deadline of February 13, 2025.

Pierre Chymkowitch at the University of Oslo is awarded 12 million NOK by The Norwegian Research Council, to investigate how SUMOylation influences epigenetic stability and could prevent diseases like obesity and cancer.

The candidates in this spring¡¯s rector election will be announced on January 13th. Get to know the candidates and ask them questions in one of the upcoming election meetings.

The 12th NorMIC workshop is bi-annual event, offering essential hands-on experience, knowledge sharing, and professional networking among the imaging scientific research community.

UiO has several different support schemes for innovative researchers: seed funding from the UiO Growth House and innovation funding from UiO as well as admission to the innovation programmes SPARK Norway and SPARK Social Innovation. In 2025, UiO plan to announce a total of NOK 17 million from internal funds. First out is the call for seed funding from the UiO Growth House February 2025.

Six new projects have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme in health-related life science, SPARK Norway. One of them won the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2024.

21 projects have been granted funding to develop solutions to meet societal needs. We congratulate all the research groups!

UiO:Life Science funds convergence environments - interdisciplinary research groups that work on major societal challenges within life science related to health, environment, and sustainability. 

In October 2024, the interdisciplinary, student-led UiO iGEM team won the gold medal at the international iGEM competition held in Paris for their innovative health monitoring project, DetectiMOL.

Professor Eivind Valen and an international team have secured EIC grant to develop groundbreaking virus-host mapping technology. The research project, VirHoX, promises to revolutionize our understanding of viral interactions and advance biotechnological and medical solutions.

This summer 50 students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science. The closure of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.

New representatives for the entire Faculty Board are to be elected. You can nominate candidates until October 16.

UiO:Life Science is looking forward to a new operational period and a new strategy adopted for 2025-2029. In this context, our support schemes have been updated. Some have also had their grant amounts increased. Completely new is a one-time call for stimulation funds for FRIPRO applications that we are launching now.

Cancer cells can reveal whether a treatment is effective within a few hours or days. At the new KG Jebsen Center for Blood Cancer, researchers are working to elevate diagnostics and treatment to an entirely new level of precision.

Most of the Department of Biosciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and parts of the Institute of Oral Biology at the Faculty of Dentistry will move into the new life science building.

Seven researchers from the University of Oslo (UiO) have been awarded Starting Grants from the European Research Council. These funds are given to researchers early in their career, with highly ambitious research projects that promise to make a significant impact.