MED-nytt, no 7 – 2024

Editorial: Spring and new opportunities

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about the presentation of the faculty’s Teaching Award and that the HELP and Sustainit units have changed their positions in the organisation. Read also about Research Days, the Research Grand Prix, construction work at Domus Medica and the seminar on women’s health on 12 April:

Women’s Health (event in Norwegian) at the House of Literature. How is the perspective of women represented in medical education and research? Is women’s health a low priority in resource allocation? 

Read the Dean’s full editorial

The Management Column

Guest post: SUSTAINIT – research and education for sustainable health

Professor Eivind Engebretsen is the head of SUSTAINIT, which has now been operational for just over a year. He says that the unit’s task is to contribute to research and education that promote sustainable health. The three centres at the unit - the Centre for Pandemic and One-Health Research, the Centre for Global Health and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education each contribute in their own way to the testing of new models for sustainable health through their areas of focus.

Read the full post in the Management Column

Studies

Teaching award for programmes of professional study 2024 

On 2 April, Professor Marit Inngjerdingen received the first Teaching Award in the professional study programme in medicine – voted for by the students. Read the full article on the Studies website.
Rising to the top through commitment and clarity.

News from MED

New management at the Centre for Pandemic and One-Health Research (P1H)

Jens Petter Berg led P1H through the start-up phase as interim manager. Gunnveig Grødeland is now taking over as the new manager. Berg will continue to support P1H, as well as the Centre for Global Health and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE), in his new role as Research and Development Manager for SUSTAINIT. Read more on the centre’s website.

Andersen and Omland are new members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Jan Terje Andersen and Torbjørn Omland have been elected as new members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The membership is recognition of their scientific work. Read the full article on the institute website in Norwegian.

Casado receives the Professor Kreyberg Award

Raquel Bartolomé Casado received the Professor Kreyberg Award for her research on the adaptive immune system of the intestine. This is the second award she has received for her doctoral work.

Read the full story on the institute website in Norwegian.

Briefings

• MED: Research Days with Research Grand PrixHealth is the main topic at this year’s Research Days. In addition to repeating the success of the Medical Research Fair at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, we will also participate in the Research Grand Prix this year. Invitations to register will soon be sent via email to all doctoral research fellows. Join us!

• IMB: From 10 April, there will be two blasts per day on the west side of Domus Medica. This will continue for 1 month. Follow the status of the construction work in connection with the new Oslo University Hospital on IMB’s website for information from The Norwegian Hospital Construction Agency.

• Khrono: The Government is removing age and gender points, and also removing grade requirements (link in Norwegian)

• P1H: Preannouncement of a vaccine research seminar. Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, is visiting the University of Oslo in September to receive an honorary doctorate. To mark this occasion, P1H will organize a seminar on Norwegian vaccine research.

• UiO: The work environment at UiO. Employees are most satisfied with the support from colleagues, the management and the working climate, while participation and internal information flow score somewhat lower. 

• UiO: Keep yourself updated about the study into the possibility of a merger regarding the Faculty of Dentistry and Faculty of Medicine. Please contact the work group if you have any input. The next working group meeting is on 12 April.

• UiO: Discounts on theatre performances for UiO employees.

Management meetings

• Lederforum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is on Tuesday 16 April. Agenda items and documents must be submitted by 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting can be found here.
• Overview of faculty board meetings and IDF meetings in 2024 (PDF) with deadlines for submitting matters. The next faculty board meeting will be held on 7 May. Agendas and protocols will be updated here.
• University Board meetings in 2024. The meetings are live streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting will take place on 14 May. See also agendas and minutes from the first meetings of the year.

Opportunities and deadlines

• See all important deadlines regarding applications for research funding in Funding opportunities

• Get help with your FRIPRO application from the faculty’s External Funding Office. Report your interest as soon as possible. Deadline for submitting drafts: 22 April

• Keep track of the annual cycle for award announcements. Several announcements have been published. 

• 

  The 2024 Innovation Award: Do you have an idea for a new product or service? Participate and compete to win NOK 500,000. Deadline 1 May.

• Apply for internationalisation funding from UiO:Life Science. Deadline: 1 June

• Apply for support for conferences and events from UiO: Life Science. Deadline: 1 June

Courses and events

See the University of Oslo’s calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO IT and the Library of Medicine and Science.

Overview: Upcoming public defences.

• Course in research data management Learn how research data can be managed in a legal, structured and secure manner, and how it can be stored, reused and understood in the future by yourself and others. Some courses in Norwegian and some in English.
  • 16. april: Plan your research data management
  • 17. april: Share, archive, and reuse research data
  • 22. mai: Planlegging av forskningdatahåndtering
  • 24. mai: Del, arkiver og gjenbruk forskningsdata
• A crucial time for Europe: The liberal democracies in Europe are being threatened both from within and without. Can Europe and democracy withstand authoritarian forces and a changing USA? Join three events this spring when the University of Oslo takes a closer look at various threats to Europe and democracy today:
  • 9 April: Could authoritarian forces take over Europe? (in Norwegian)
  • 6 May: Can Europe defend itself and democracy? (in Norwegian)
  • 30 May: Parliamentary elections in the EU - how sharp will the turn to the right be? (in Norwegian)
• 12 April. Women’s Health in Norwegian at Litteraturhuset. How is the perspective of women represented in medical education and research? Is women’s health a low priority in resource allocation? What should a women’s health strategy include?
• 30 May: UiO:Life Science invites you to mark the end of the funding period for  its second generation convergence environment. The leaders of the interdisciplinary research groups will present what they have achieved and exchange experiences about what it is like to be part of a convergence environment. Everyone is welcome! Those people who are considering applying for the convergence environment are especially encouraged to attend. Mingling and tapas. NB: Requires registration.
• 24 June – 28 June: Course in Machine Learning for Epidemiologic and Health Policy Analysis. Adapting machine learning to Norwegian health data to enhance causal analyses of patient pathways and patients’outcome. Register by April 15.

About research

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Medisinbloggen: Tuberculosis is still a threat to global health in Norwegian by Tahira Riaz. Tuberculosis, which many see as a disease of the past, still takes many lives. In 2022, over a million people died from the disease. Increasing antibiotic resistance complicates treatment.

Helsam/ P1H: The centre’s first internal research project, “A Digital Twin for Vaccination Strategies at Geographic Scales", starts this spring. The aim is to develop a digital twin model to improve our ability to predict infection patterns at different levels of vaccine efficacy against current and future viruses.
 

IMB: Advanced infrastructure will revolutionise brain research. The European research infrastructure EBRAINS enables brain scientists to share, find and use data in new ways, and much more efficiently than before.
 

Klinmed/ NSSF: – Who they have lost can affect a person’s emotions afterwards. While many parents struggle with self-reproach, partners may more often experience anger towards the person who has committed suicide, according to the experiences of grief therapist Hege Sandanger and her colleagues. 

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