MED-nytt, no 20 – 2022

Editorial: 
Jens Petter Berg cheers on MED

Read the Editorial by Pro-Dean for research, Jens Petter Berg's summary of his four-year period as research dean. A lot of exciting things have happened these years that have made him both impressed and proud.

Read the full editorial.

MED excels on the "top list" for 2021

According to Forskerforum's top list, statistician at Klinmed and Campus Ahus Jurate Saltyte Benth in 2021 tops the list of women in Norway who publish the most with 17th place overall of all researchers. Klinmed has two of the ten most publishing researchers on the list: Ole Andreassen was the best of UiO's researchers with his fifth place, Tom Eirik Mollnes in eighth place. Helsam also added a researcher to the list. Børg Morten Hofmann is the tenth most published researcher in Norway. Read more and see the entire list in Forskerforum (in Norwegian).

Honorary award to Siri Rostoft

She receives the award for her work in improving the treatment of elderly patients with cancer, and for being a pioneer in the field of geriatric oncology. Read more in Norwegian. The faculty management congratulates!

Contribution to WHO report on health skills

Astrid Klopstad Wahl, professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the University of Oslo, has given an expert opinion on the new WHO report on health skills, and is recognized in the report. Read more in Norwegian.

Studies

The medical students can take two years of study in Innlandet

In order to train more doctors, the University of Oslo (UiO) is investing in creating a new campus linked to Sykehuset Innlandet. The plan is to send 20 students a year to the new campus in Innlandet, starting in the spring of 2025. Ten will go there in the spring and another ten in the autumn of the same year. The faculty admits students twice a year. Read more in Norwegian.

Medical student won award for best scientific paper

Tigist Alemu, final year student at our professional education, has won the award for "Best scientific paper by a doctor in training" given by the Norwegian Urological Association and which was awarded at the recent Surgical autumn meeting. In connection with practical hospitalization during her education, she has both researched and worked at the urology department at OUS Aker hospital. Read more in this post from OUS (in Norwegian). The faculty management congratulates!

Support for innovative researchers

Researchers at UiO who have identified a need in society for which they want to find a solution, or have a research result with value for the community, can apply for support for the development of ideas and concepts. Those who have progressed a little further in the process can apply for support for testing and further development of their innovation projects. 18 projects at UiO have this year received funding from the rector's office for the development of socially beneficial solutions. Ten of the projects supported belong to the MED faculty. Four of our projects received seed funding and six projects received innovation funding. The faculty management congratulates!

Read more and see who has received support here.

Information for employees

• Faculty board election 2022: Remember to vote!
  Election of new representatives to the faculty board in all constituencies.
  The election ends on 21/11-2022 at 12:00.

  

  Read more about the candidates for your constituency and cast your vote now. 

• 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.

• Access Africa at the 5th Ethiopia-Norway Health and Higher Education Conference. The Access Africa Consortium had the pleasure of presenting the project and its results during a plenary session at the 5th Ethiopia-Norway Health and Higher Education Conference in Addis Ababa.
   

• 

• War in Ukraine: Ukraine – University of Oslo

• Apollon, UiO's own research magazine, with a separate themed issue on gene research. You can read all the cases in the issue here (in norwegian). The cases about our researchers, as well as the intro article to the theme issue, are also included at the bottom of the newsletter under Forskningsaktuelt.

• CHRONICLE: Global research collaboration, development and ripple effects by Johanne Sundby, professor emerita at MED.

• Our own skilled communications advisor Cecilie Bakken Høstmark (IMB) in the communications group at the faculty won an honorable mention at forskning.no's 20th anniversary party for her research case which sets an important focus. MED-new congratulations! Read more at Forskning.no (in Norwegian) and read the case she was praised for here: Many veterinarians struggle with suicidal thoughts.

Management meetings

Lederforum 15 November. 

Minutes from the previous Faculty Board Meeting 8 November. 

Meetings for the University Board in 2022. Last meeting on 18 October. Upcoming meeting on 6 December. The meetings are streamed and are open to anyone who wants to follow along.

Deadlines

• See all the important deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities.

• Award announcements: Keep up-to-date with the annual cycle for award announcements, which is updated on an ongoing basis

• Helselederprisen 2023 deles ut på lederkonferansens første dag av Ingvild Kjerkol, helse- og omsorgsminister og NSHs styreleder Anders Frafjord. Nominer din kandidat i dag.

• Deadline for submitting applications for assessment of PhD theses before the Christmas holidays: Applications for assessment (dissertation and committee proposal) must be submitted by 11 November for the committee to be appointed before the Christmas holidays. The application must be complete. There will be no occasion to submit only committee proposals before the deadline and resubmit the thesis after the deadline, or vice versa." See overview of deadlines for Ph.D.

• CRIStin: The deadline for registering periodicals, publishers and book series at level 1 to the Channel Register is 30 November.
  NB: In 2021, a new level was launched, level X. Level X is a new level for dubious journals and book publishers, where there is uncertainty about the quality of editorial routines. Read more about level X here..

• 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.

• 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.

• 18 November: WHO launches report led by Eivind Engebretsen and Trish Greenhalgh. WHO Health Evidence Network synthesis report 76 explores how knowledge translation and cultural contexts are conceptualized and utilized together.

• 21 - 22 November: Den 22. nasjonale helseøkonomikonferansen.

• 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?

• 22 November: UB: Life Science Writing Club kl.15-19.

• Per Fugelli lecture 24 November: The Patient Earth is Sick, but the medical doctors are mainly absent by Iona Heath.

• 24 November: UB arrangerer Open Science Lunch som holdes kl.12-13 med tema ”CRediT your co-authors”, “a new international standard for transparent assignment of individual research contributions”.

• 23 - 24 November course for professors and managers in Trondheim under the auspices of the Helseinnovatørskolen:  Learn how you can increase innovation in your laboratory and build a bridge over the gap between researchers and health innovators. All expenses covered. Deadline: First come, first served. Read more and join.

• 30 November: Join us for The 17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. Digital participation is free upon registration, and the conference is held in a hybrid version with a flipped format.

• 1 Desember UiO's annual education conference! Georg Sverdrup's house is filled with exciting lectures, conversations, poster sessions and idea workshops about how we can together create even better education at UiO. Sign up 
  All employees and students at UiO are invited to participate..

• 7-13 Desember: The Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week (OBiWoW). December 7th-13th 2022 will see the very first Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Student Committee of the Centre for Bioinformatics at UiO, in collaboration with the ISCB Regional Student group in Norway. To register to a workshop(s) with limited seats, check out the workshop website and follow the registration link on each workshop that you would like to attend. Registration deadline: November 30th.

• 2 and 3 February 2023: Lederkonferansen 2023 How to lead in change and how to face the future? The battle for personnel. New requirements. Poor economy. Priorities and division of tasks. Digitization and home hospitals.

Research news

You can also check out what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.

Medisinbloggen: Can Wholemeal Bread Make You Happier?by Camilla Myrdal in Norwegian.

A diet rich in fiber provides a number of well-known health effects. Now it appears that fiber can also prevent depression.

IMB: A blood protein can reduce brain damage after a stroke by Cecilie Bakken Høstmark

If you have a stroke, the protein FSAP may help to reduce the extent of paralyses and problems with speech. 

Apollon: Gene research is changing the medicine of the future by Yngve Vogt in Norwegian. Medical genetics is becoming increasingly important to detect and treat serious diseases. To reach the goal, the medics need help from both molecular biologists, bioinformaticians and mathematicians.

Apollon: New genetic calculations reveal the risk of cancer by Yngve Vogt in Norwegian.
The probability that you will get cancer increases if you have certain combinations of several thousand gene variants.
 

Apollon: Great genetic similarity between different mental disorders by Yngve Vogt in norwegian.

Mental disorders can be caused by a combination of many thousands of gene variants. The genetic overlap between the various disorders is very large.

Apollon: The vaccine of the future against life-threatening and resistant bacteria, by Yngve Vogt in Norwegian. 

By studying all the genes in a bacterial species and how they change over time, it is possible to create better vaccines against life-threatening bacterial diseases.

Apollon: Fixes rare diseases by cutting and gluing together genes, by Yngve Vogt in Norwegian.

In the future, doctors may use gene editing to treat patients with inherited immunodeficiency diseases.

MED-nytt is an internal newsletter for all staff and associates. Anyone who subscribes to MED-nytt can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by unsubscribing here. If you want to resubscribe to MED-nyttyou can subscribe here. You can also catch up with news from MED on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.