New application round funding of convergence environments!
Today UiO:Life Science funds seven convergence environments – interdisciplinary research groups that address major challenges related to health and environment/sustainability. This is one of the main pillars of the life science initiative at UiO. Now a new application round starts for funding of 5–6 new groups. Join our digital and physical meeting places in August and September to take part in the application process. Registration deadline 22 August.
Meet UiO:Life Science at Arendalsuka (in Norwegian)
15 August:
- 10.30–12: The value of personalized medicine
- 10–20.30: SPARK Norway a model for increased value creation
- 16 August:
- Take a look at all the UiO events at Arendalsuka
Nordic news on life sciences in Oslo
Read a long interview in the Nordic Life Science magazine with UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset and CEO of Oslo Cancer Cluster Ketil Widerberg.
Save the dates for events in the fall and winter
- 10–12 September: Nordic Life Science Days in Stockholm
SPARK Norway and others hosts an academic catwalk 10 September - 19 September: Ibsen and communication of natural sciences, breakfast seminar at Nationaltheatret – a part of the Ibsen festival and the National Science Week
(in Norwegian) - 25 September: Cutting Edge Festival with a SPARK Norway session
- – a part of Oslo Innovation Week
- Events with support from UiO:Life Science
- 19–21 September: Virginia-Nordic Precision Neuroscience II
- 9–12 October: Genome maintenance and turning the tide of antimicrobial resistance
- 26–27 October: Cultural crossings of care – an appeal to the medical humanities
- 11–14 February: Oslo Life Science 2019. Watch videos from this years´s conference.
Meet innovative life science researchers
Meet three of the teams in our innovation programme SPARK Norway:
- Henriette Andresen: Has received millions in support to develop treatment of high blood pressure (in Norwegian)
- Ana Lobato-Pascual: Starting a company together after meeting at School of health innovation
- Simone Mester: Enjoying a meteoric career as a researcher
Several of the winners of the UiO awards for excellence in research, education, innovation and science communication have connections to life sciences. We congratulate the winners! (in Norwegian)Summer stipends from UiO:Life Science:
Students in full swing doing research projects
67 students will work on research projects this summer and fall. At the Natural History Museum, bachelor’s degree student Marius F. Maurstad is studying beetles at the molecular level to understand how climate change affects prevalence and evolution, and in a worst-case scenario, extinction of species – a dream job, in his opinion.
We wish the students good luck with their projects.
We also wish the readers of our newsletter a nice summer!
