Education
66 students offered summer projects in life sciences
UiO:Life Science shall recruit, educate and develop talents. Before Christmas the initiative announced that students could apply for summer research projects. The board has decided that as many as 66 students will be offered a project in 2018.
Events
Open meetings SPARK Norway
The partners of UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway organize monthly open meetings. Other meetings this spring: 8 May and 6 June. Check out the SPARK Norway web page for programmes and registration.
Breakfast seminar at Nationaltheatret Friday 13 April:
Aniara – a travel in time and space
In the intersection between science fiction and research, we welcome you to a breakfast seminar on travel into space, settlement and growth on other planets and eternity. Meet researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at UiO and others.
Open meeting for employees at UiO about the life science building 23 May
The life science building at UiO i planned for completion in 2024. The first sod will be cut in the first quarter of 2019. What has been decided so far about who and what the building will house? And what will happen in the building project in the time to come?
Events with support from UiO:Life Science
- Sven Furberg Seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics, next 22 March
- Day of Immunology, 23 April
- Food, Nutrition and Human Rights,26 April
- Symposium: "Posthuman Entanglements", 15 May
- Securing health care of hidden populations: The case of Children Born of War, 5 June
- Virginia-Nordic Precision Neuroscience II, 19–21 September
- Cultural crossings of care – an appeal to the medical humanities, 26–27 October
Funding
Inven2's idea award
Do you have an idea for a new product or a new service? Participate in "Idéprisen" and win 250.000 NOK to develop your idea! Deadline 9 April.
Apply for conference or other event support
Academic employees and students at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for funds for partially financing of open events that are in line with the initiative's strategy. Application deadline 1 June 2018.
Apply for internationalization support
Academic employees, post docs and PhD students at UiO within the life sciences can apply for support to strengthen the collaboration with international research environments. Application deadline 1 June 2018.
Other life science news from UiO
- Vessela Kristensen is awarded King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research (in Norwegian)
Professor Vessela Kristensen at the Institute of clinical medicine is awarded the cancer research prize for her breast cancer research. Kristensen is a member of the convergence environment PERCATHE which is funded by UiO:Life Science. Read an English article at oslocancercluster.no - Receives major EU funding for postdoctoral programs (in Norwegian)
The Faculty of Medicine receives almost nine million Euros in support of Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) Cofund for an international postdoctoral program. An example to follow, says CEO John-Arne Røttingen in the Research Council. Read and English article at med.uio.no - Nordic effort in developing personalized medicine (in Norwegian)
A consortium of ten pharmaceutical institutes from the five Nordic countries has received NOK 42 million for the development of new, personalized medicines. "The ambition is for our region to become a leader in Europe in this area," says Professor Ingunn Tho at the School of Pharmacy at UiO. Read an English article about the project NordicPOP at nordforsk.org
