Guest post on the Rector’s blog: 
Jahre Awards Ceremony 2022
The Jahre Awards for 2022 will go to researchers and research fields in basal cancer research, research on metabolic changes in cancer and diabetes, and treatment of cardiac arrest. The main award very deservedly goes to our own Professor Harald Stenmark. The Anders Jahre's award for young researchers of NOK 400,000 is shared this year between Associate Professor Lykke Sylow from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen and Associate Professor Lars Wiuff Andersen from the Institute of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University.
Read more about the awards and research that will be honoured with the award this autumn in the Dean's guest post on the Rector's blog.
Watch the video about Professor Harald Stenmark, which the UiO has made in connection with today's award (in Norwegian):
Faculty Board election 2022: The candidates are ready!
The Faculty Board election for the period 01.01.2023–31.12.2026 will be held this autumn. New representatives shall be elected to the Faculty Board in all constituencies. Student representatives with deputies and representatives with deputies from the temporarily employed academic staff shall be elected for one year: 1.1 to 31.12.2023. The students hold their own election. At the postponed deadline of 1 November, there was only one candidate for the election for the representative of temporary employees. Thus, no traditional elections will be held. She will be formally elected at the Faculty Board meeting on 15 December.
The election will open on 14 November 2022 at 08:00 and will end on 21 November 2022 at 12:00.
Read more about the candidates for your constituency and go in and vote when the election opens.
Humanist Award to our colleague
Aleksandra Weder Sawica
Aleksandra Weder Sawicka, who works as management support for the Faculty Management at MED, has been awarded the Humanist Award for 2022 for her outstanding efforts for war-torn "Ukrainian sisters". The Faculty Management warmly congratulates Aleksandra! Read the full article and feel free to get involved!
NOK 5.2 million for research at the Centre for Medical Ethics
Kristiane Myckland Hansson and Morten Magelssen at the Centre for Medical Ethics receive a total of NOK 5.2 million in support from the Dam Foundation for new research projects. Read more (in Norwegian).
Millions of kroner for coeliac research
How much gluten is there in fermented foods? In the ImmunoSafe project, researchers will investigate this in order to develop better tests and facilitate safer daily food intake for coeliac patients. Read more (in Norwegian).
Victor Greiff appointed as Young CAS Fellow
For the second time, the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (CAS) has appointed two Young CAS Fellows. One of them is Victor Greiff, associate professor at the Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at Klinmed. In his project, Greiff will explore how evolution has affected our immune system. Read the full article (in Norwegian).
Information for employees
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Election at the Faculty of Medicine:
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Election of new Faculty Board representatives from all constituencies. The election will open on 14 November 2022 at 08:00 and will end on 21 November 2022 at 12:00.
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Read more about the candidates for your constituency and go in and vote when the election opens.
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Store norske leksikon is looking for professionals in medicine. Do you want to be the expert in your field? Register your interest. The work is paid.
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War in Ukraine: Ukraine – University of Oslo
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Recap from a World in Transitions Symposium: On 14 October, 2022, the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo hosted a symposium entitled A World in Transitions: Implications for Priorities and Efficiencies in Global Health.
Management meetings
Agenda from the Management Forum on 18 October (in Norwegian). Budget and long-term forecast – Distribution 2023 – Study cases – Research cases – News from the departments.
Minutes from the latest Faculty Board Meeting on 17 June (in Norwegian).
University Board Meetings in 2022 (in Norwegian). Last meeting 18 October. Upcoming meeting on 6 December. The meetings are live-streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend.
Deadlines
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See all the important deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities.
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Award announcements: Keep up-to-date with the annual cycle for award announcements, which is updated on an ongoing basis.
- Monrad-Krohns legat til fremme av neurologisk forskning. Frist: 15. januar.
- Education Quality Award for 2023. Nominate your candidate by 13 January.
- STK (Centre for Gender Research) Award 2022. Deadline 31 December.
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Nominate your candidate for UiO's Welfare Award: If there is anyone at your unit/in your community who you think deserves this award, or if you think someone at another unit deserves it this year, submit a proposal to the Culture and Welfare Committee by 6 June. November 2022.
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ERC Synergy Grant: The ERC Synergy Grant (SyG) is for 2–4 PIs and their teams who combine complementary skills to jointly address ambitious research problems in any field of research. Deadline: 8 November 2022.
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University of Oslo: Life Sciences: Academic staff, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students in life sciences at the University of Oslo are welcome to apply for funding to strengthen collaborations with international research communities. Closing date for applications: 1 December.
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University of Oslo: Life Sciences: Academic staff and students at the University of Oslo are welcome to apply to University of Oslo: Life Sciences for funding to attend conferences and other open events. Successful applicants could receive up to NOK 50,000 and 50 per cent of the total amount. Closing date for applications: 1 December.
- ERC Consolidator Grant: The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the deadline for the 2023 Consolidator Grant. Deadline 2 February 2023.
- University of Oslo: Life Sciences: Apply for admission to the SPARK Norway innovation programme Do you have an idea relating to life sciences that could resolve challenges linked to human or animal health? Apply for admission to the University of Oslo: Life Sciences innovation programme, SPARK Norway, to further develop your idea into new technology, treatments or services. Deadline: 10 November
Courses and events
See the University of Oslo’s calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also courses from USIT.
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Research Council of Norway: Horizon Europe Course. Register for one or more of the free courses and webinars relating to Horizon Europe this autumn. The courses will provide you with valuable knowledge about what it takes to succeed with your application.
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University Library in November:
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11. november kl. 17:30 –19:30, Litteraturhuset. CanCell Young Scientists holder seminar om hvorfor vi bør være obs på mental helse i akademia, og hvilke strategier vi kan bruke for å bedre forskningskulturen for alle. Seminaret er åpent for alle.
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15 November: Workshop: Want to understand Norwegian Working Culture?
The Norwegian working environment is full of social norms and unwritten rules. The aim of this workshop is to provide participants with interesting and fun, but also important and useful insights into such norms and rules. For both non-Norwegian researchers and Norwegian staff at the UiO, the workshop is highly recommended! Read more about the workshop and register at uio.no. -
16 November Allison Portnoy, PhD from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will give a talk on “Full value of vaccination: economic and distributional impacts of novel tuberculosis vaccines in low- and middle-income countries’’ as part of the national health economics seminar series. The seminar series is a hybrid seminar series established in 2020, bringing together people who are interested in health economics for presentations and discussions. The seminar will be streamed on Zoom. Read more.
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23–24 November course for professors and managers in Trondheim, arranged by the School of Health Innovation: Learn how you can increase innovation in your laboratory and build bridges between researchers and health innovators. All expenses will be covered. Deadline: First come, first served. Read more and sign up.
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22. november: You are invited to Global Health Day at Oslo University Hospital! Staff at the Oslo University Hospital (OUS) have been engaged in global health research and capacity development for decades. What is the status today? What is understood by the term "global health" in 2022? How does it affect OUS, the work and research?
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Deadline for submitting applications for assessment of PhD theses before the Christmas holidays: Applications for assessment (theses and committee proposals) must be submitted before 11 November 2022 in order for the committee to be appointed before the Christmas holidays. Applications must be complete. It will not be possible to submit a committee proposal before the deadline and then submit the thesis later (or vice versa). See overview of PhD deadlines.
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1 December The Annual Educational Conference at the University of Oslo! The Georg Sverdrup Building will be packed with interesting lectures, meetings, lightning sessions and ideas workshops on how we, together, can improve education even further at the University of Oslo. Register now! All employees and students at the University of Oslo are invited to attend.
Research news
You can also check out what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
IMB: High social rank meant you were tall and had good bone density by Cecilie Bakken Høstmark. In the Middle Ages, people of high status were both taller and had higher bone density than those from modest backgrounds. This difference was most marked amongst women, shows a new study based on the Schreiner Collection.
Institute of Clinical Medicine: How can we improve heart failure diagnosis? by Julie Nybakk Kvaal.
Almost half of people who suffer from heart failure have an "unknown" type. Researchers at the UiO have studied whether biomarkers can provide better opportunities for diagnosis.
Institute of Health and Society: India is one of the world’s leading producers of antibiotics by Mathilde Coraline Aarvold Bakke. India produces 20 percent of all generic medicines worldwide, but depends on ingredients from China to make the medicines.
Medisinbloggen: Queen Elizabeth and women's health by Lisbeth Thoresen.
Twice as many women as men are over the age of 85. Many of them are widows. What type of challenges to women's health does this result in?
NRK: The designer children of the future by Bjørn Hofmann
Biotechnology has and will revolutionize human reproduction. It will change us as individuals, as a society and as a species.
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