Editorial: Merry Christmas!
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and the rest of the Faculty Management provides a summary of 2023. They would like to thank you all for your efforts this year and would like to wish all staff and students a very Merry Christmas!
Read the full editorial and see photos from 2023.
About MED
Christmas Greetings from the Medicine Blog
In 2023, we had 21 posts on the Medicine Blog. These covered everything from small extracellular vesicles that kill cancer to cocaine use among adolescents. We have compiled the most read posts for you here as a small Christmas gift (in Norwegian). The posts were authored by Anne Marit Mengshoel, Anne Margrethe Myhre and Bjørn Naume.
Lene Frost Andersen appointed new Head of the National Council for Nutrition
Head of Department and Professor Lene Frost Andersen has accepted the role as Head of the National Council for Nutrition for the 2024-2026 period. PhD candidate Erik Arnesen, Professor Rune Blomhoff and Professor Nanna Lien will also serve on the Council during this period.
Read more on the institute website in Norwegian.
Studies
Jan Magnus Aronsen recognised as a merited educator at
UiO
Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition! The assessment committee found that Aronsen believes that learning must ensure the knowledge, skills and expertise required by society and the medical profession. Read the full article on the Studies website in Norwegian.
Tønnesen awarded Students’ Teaching Award for module 8
Disseminating knowledge has always been a motivating factor for Professor of Anaesthesia, Tor Inge Tønnessen. “Look at teaching as an investment in the future,” is his advice to other educators.
Read the full article on the Studies website in Norwegian.
Department of Biosciences: New course BIOS1010 - Introduction to Forensic Medicine
In spring 2024, the Department of Biosciences will offer a new, interdisciplinary bachelor course and admissions are now open. The course provides an introduction to forensic medicine, including forensic genetics, forensic pathology and forensic toxicology. Several lecturers from MED will contribute to the course.
Read the full story on the Department website (in Norwegian).
Briefings
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The 2024 annual plan was adopted at the Faculty Board meeting on 12 December. Download the annual plan for the Faculty of Medicine (2024-2026) here. Read more about the decision and minor adjustments to the Faculty’s strategy document in the meeting minutes.
Join the user panel: The Faculty is collaborating with the central UiO staff to establish a new database with an overview of funding opportunities. If you would like to join the user panel, please indicate your interest to the Unit for External Funding.- English titles for førsteamanuensis II, forsker I and professor II: From November this year, Førsteamanuensis II is translated as Associate professor II, while Professor II will be the same in Norwegian and English. Forsker I will be translated as Senior Researcher, as previously.
Get help with your FRIPRO application!
Our talented advisers at the Unit for External Funding (UEF) would be happy to read and comment on your FRIPRO application if you get in touch in good time.- This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine shows how close the link between research, innovation and applications needs to be, write Professor Kjetil Taskén, Professor Johanna Olweus and John-Arne Røttingen in Aftenposten in connection with this year's award ceremony. Read more on the website of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Holidays, flexitime and working hours during the Christmas period. Did you know that, every year, the University of Oslo gives you and your colleagues the gift of an extra day off during Christmas?- UiO offers work experience to participants in the refugee induction programme (info in norwegian). The dedicated measures for Ukrainian researchers have now been expanded to include Palestinian researchers.
- UiO is one of nine partners in the Circle U university alliance. Six new Academic Chairs, including Christoph Gradmann (HELSAM), and an Academic Director have now been appointed. These are part-time posts with a special responsibility for promoting educational activities and offerings across universities. Read more about the Circle U appointments here.
- Each year, UIO creates an electronic Christmas card for employees to send to their friends and partners. Printed copies can be ordered from the Graphics Centre.
- External cultural activities for employees: Discounts on theatre performances and Christmas concerts are available to UiO employees.
- The new archive and case management system for the higher education sector has been delayed again. UiO expects to start using the system no earlier than the summer of 2025. Read more at Uniforum.
- Excavation work at Domus Medica, see information from Sykehusbygg and phase plans.
Management Meetings
Leadership Forum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is on Tuesday 23 January. Agenda items and documents may be submitted until 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting can be found here.
Overview of Faculty Board meetings (PDF). The agenda and minutes can be found here.
University Board meetings in 2024. The meetings are live-streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting takes place on 6 February.
Oportunities and Deadlines
- See all important deadlines regarding applications for research funding in Funding opportunities
- Keep track of the annual cycle for award announcements. There are currently lots of important announcements with tight deadlines. The King Olav V Cancer Research Award for 2024, the University’s five awards, the Monrad-Krohn’s Student Trust Fund, the Gagna & Van Heck Prize, the Nobel Prize and the Anders Jahre Awards. Nominate your outstanding partners and colleagues!
Courses and events
See the University of Oslo’s course calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO:IT and the Medical and Science Library.
- January 8-12: Digital Scholarship Days. For anyone keen to explore digital tools and methods, from programming and data management to open science. Workshops tailored for both newcomers and seasoned scholars, covering a wide range of digital scholarship techniques. Workshop registration is open.
- 11 January: Final seminar for the Rethinking Cancer Survivorship research project. Organised by Rethinking Cancer Survivorship (CANCUL) and the Society, Health and Power (SHEP) research group.
- 17 January, 15:00-17:00. The faculty will gather in Domus Bibliotheca: The Future Healthcare Service: What do we do when we run out of people?
- 6 February, 16:30-20:00. Save the date of the seminar: “An anti-racist medical faculty?“ organised by the Faculty’s Equity and Diversity Committee.
- 13 and 14 February Norway Life Science Conference 2024: Unlocking the Potential of Health Data. Registration is open.
Research News
You can also follow what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine via facebook, X, Linkedin and Instagram.
Medisinbloggen: What does an allergy test actually tell us? in Norwegian by Karin Cecilie Lødrup Carlsen.
You have taken an allergy test and it comes back “positive”. Does this mean you are allergic? Do you need to avoid whatever triggered the test result?
IMB: Mouse brains studied to learn more about how we store information about objects (in Norwegian). How do we remember where objects are located? This has now been discovered in a project led by Koen Vervaeke. This knowledge may prove important to the treatment of diseases that affect memory, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Helsam: Environmental and climate change affects our health.
A new Norwegian network for Planetary Health will raise awareness of how environmental and climate changes affect both human and plant health.
Klinmed, IMB and OD: Interdisciplinary research on dementia at UiO. Dementia research at UiO includes studies of molecules, sleep, lactic acid and lifestyle. In this article, five researchers talk about their work.
IMB: The brains of small zooplankton can shed light on neurodegenerative diseases (link in Norwegian). Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease affect, among other things, the human ability to move. Studying the control system for movement in the brains of small zooplankton can help generate knowledge of how diseases attack.
IMB: Updated atlas of rat brains marks milestone in brain research (link in Norwegian). A recently updated atlas of rat brains can now help science move forward. The Waxholm Space Rat Brain Atlas is a 3D-atlas that provides a detailed map of the rat brain. Researchers have now further developed the atlas through extensive updates and open access.
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