Editorial: Something to be proud of
Hilde Irene Nebb, Vice-Dean of Innovation and Internationalisation at MED, talks about the fairytaile Scientia Fellows at the MED-faculty.
Since 2014, 160 emerging research talents have been working as part of the outstanding research communities at the University of Oslo via the Scientia Fellows programme in biomedical research. This has also contributed towards international growth at MED.
The final Scientia Fellows II recruitment round has an application deadline of 30 April and the project will conclude in 2024. An interim evaluation took place last autumn and we were encouraged to apply for a third round.
The Life Science Growth House has opened its doors!
On 17 February, the Life Science Growth House – the new innovation unit for life sciences at the University of Oslo – was officially opened. The Growth House will help researchers and students with the innovation process. See pictures from the opening where we gathered Oslo’s innovation ecosystem for life sciences. Read more and see the photos.
Studies
Her kan studentene få jobbe med stamceller og miniatyrorganer
The creation workshop LagLivLab invites medical students to create "lab-on-a-chip", and to do experiments with cells on these pieces. Center manager and professor of medicine Stefan Krauss at HTH and postdoctoral fellow Ludivine Delon hope more medical students will work on projects through LagLivLab. Read the full article on our study pages in Norwegian.
Information for employees
MED: We ask all staff and students to stay up-to-date with information from the faculty on our information about the corona virus outbreak.
- UMED: "Publish and read"-agreements with Elsevier and Wiley are in place.
- NCMM: New EMBL programme offers opportunities for researchers in Norway The Norwegian research environment stands to benefit from the launch of the new European Molecular Biology Laboratory programme ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’
- Uniforum: The Rector about Oslo Science City: – We have followed the rules of the game (in Norwegian)
- Uniforum: Four universities are considering dropping parts of the state's IT system (in Norwegian)
- UiO: Looking for kindergarten place in the fall? 1 March is the deadline for applying to the University Kindergartens for year 2022/2023 with start-up in August. If you need a kindergarten place for your child and meet the application criteria, submit an application on the online form.
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Dagens medisin: Mini-method evaluation (MMV), which is part of New Methods, takes place in hospitals and deals with methods other than medicines. We believe that this scaled-down form of the national method evaluations should be used far more than today, it writes among others Helsams Magnus Løberg i dette debattinnlegget i Dagens medisin.
- Uniforum: – Research and innovation are a good preparedness for the next pandemic (in Norwegian)
- UiO: New provider of newsletter solutions.
- Uniforum: Editorial in Norwegian: It is important to bring African universities up to a high level.
- Helsam: Psychologist collaboration captured more young people with anxiety (in Norwegian). Significantly more young people were diagnosed with anxiety and fewer were diagnosed with symptoms if the GP had a psychologist and psychiatrist attached to the doctor's office. It shows a randomized Norwegian study.
Management meetings
Minutes from the Management Forum in Norwegian held on 15. februar: Economic status MED - H.M. The King's Gold Medal - Study cases - Research cases - News from the institutes - Prizes
Agenda in Norwegian for the Faculty Board meeting on 8 March.
Preliminary minutes for the Faculty Board meeting on 15 desember.
(The minutes will be approved at the first meeting in 2022.)
Deadlines
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See all the important deadlines for applications for research funding under Funding opportunities.
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Throne-Holst grants - human nutrition and related sciences. The foundation awards approximately 1-2 million SEK to researchers annually. The next deadline is 1 March
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University of Oslo: Apply to become a merited teacher. The merit scheme is intended to promote quality in education at the University of Oslo. All permanent academic staff with their primary position at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply (in Norwegian). Deadline: 15 March.
- MED: ERC Consolidator Grant The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the deadline for the 2022 Consolidator Grant. Deadline: 17 March.
- Award announcements: Keep abreast of the annual cycle for award announcements. You can now find several calls for proposals with various levels of funding available here.
Courses and events
See UiO’s calendar for an overview of all available courses.
Updated overview: Upcoming public defences
- UiO:Helpdesk skal gjennom vårsemesteret 2022 holde en rekke digitale kurs. Kursene vil bli arrangert flere ganger i løpet av semesteret. Information about upcomming courses..
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Courses at Library of Medicine and Science. Library of Medicine and Science offer courses in literature searching, critical appraisal of articles, reference tools and publishing. All the courses require registration. All registrations are binding.
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Welcome to: X-DEP winter bonanza. We are inviting you all to a hike and bonfire party at Østernvann!
The hike is postponed and will take place on Sunday, March 2 where we will meet at the T-Bane station at Majorstuen at 12.00 (noon). From here, we will take line 2 to Østerås, change to bus 230 at Eiksmarka, and get off at Fossumbanen.
Please sign up in the nettskjema.
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UiO: Bli en «Data Scientist» i sommer! Den internasjonale sommerskolen vil denne sommeren tilby et nytt fag: Political Data Science Hackathon. Emnet tilbys eksklusivt for UiOs-studenter.
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4. mars: Meet the Life Science Growth House at First Friday Coffee. The Life Science Growth House innovation director Hilde Nebb will give a pitch about the Growth House and the team will be present. Come by and meet us! -
16–17 March 2022. The 2022 Health Service Research Conference in Tromsø.
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17. mars – Wound up and stressed out – how to deal with stress and difficult emotions. A course for PhDs and Postdocs (members of NAR/Forskerforbundet) at UiO.
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The Life Sciende Groth House: Innovation hangout. Save the dates for the first two Life Science Growth House innovation hangout – a new meeting place for academia and industry.-
#1 innovation Hangout on April 21: On this hangout we collaborate with Oslo Cancer Cluster.
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#2 innovation Hangout on June 9: On this hangout we collaborate with LMI.
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Research news
You can also follow what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.
Helsam: Immigrants in Norway with confidence in the corona handling in Norwegian by Thea Cecilie Engelsen. A study among five major immigrant groups in Norway shows that the respondents had high confidence in the authorities' corona handling and felt taken care of with sufficient information.
IMB: Women know little about overdiagnosis of breast cancer by Cecilie Bakken Høstmark. Women know less about the so-called overdiagnosis of breast cancer compared to other aspects of mammogram screening. Despite this, there are few indications that women drop out of mammogram screening programmes after receiving more information.
Medisinbloggen: Facts and myths about exercise and diet in Norwegian by Jacob Juel Christensen. Exercise puts our body to a hard test, because muscle cells need a lot of energy to work hard. Is it wise to use protein powder, supplements or special foods to give the body the best possible training conditions?
IMB: Help us research personality and basic needs (in Norwegian). What does personality have to do with what you eat and how to avoid risk? Researchers are looking for subjects to develop a questionnaire that looks at psychological factors. You get a gift card of 200 kroner.
Helsam: Municipal chief physicians balance different identities in Norwegian by Thea Cecilie Engelsen. Invisibility and unclear role description, but at the same time a large degree of autonomy, are the keywords the municipal chiefs use when describing their job.
Vaksinepodden: Episode 27: Allergi og intoleranse. What happens to our immune system in the event of an allergic reaction, what separates allergies and intolerances, what causes celiac disease and how allergy vaccines work. Cast: Shuo-Wang Qiao, Gunnveig Grødeland and Even Fossum.
IMB: – We need to focus on cholesterol levels even in childhood by Cecilie Bakken Høstmark. Today, the main focus is on lowering high cholesterol levels in adults in order to prevent atherosclerosis. But then it is already too late - we should start focusing on lowering cholesterol in childhood, suggests professor Kirsten Holven.
NCMM: Researcher profile: Karolina Spustova by Nuru Saadi. Dr. Karolina Spustova recently completed her PhD in the Gözen group at NCMM. Karolina’s project aimed to understand how life evolved on the early Earth from primitive cells to complex systems.
NHI: Why are you not infected with corona? in Norwegian by Marthe Lein. The whole family is infected with the coronavirus - except for one. Does it sound familiar? What is the reason why someone does not get infected and sick?
Klinmed: Is there a genetic link between the risk of schizophrenia and the surface of the brain? by Elin Martine Doeland. The size and thickness of the surface of the brain may tell us what a person's risk of developing schizophrenia is.
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