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SPARK Norway is a two-year innovation programme to further develop ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society. Researchers from UiO and affiliated research groups at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) and Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) can apply UiO:Life Science to be included in the programme.
Programme
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09.00–11.00 Talks |
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Professor Per Morten Sandset, Vice Rector Research and Innovation, UiO Welcome |
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Dr. Kristin Vinje, Vice Dean Innovation, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO Chair |
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Professor Craig Garner, founder and director of SPARK Berlin, the first SPARK site in Europe, and former Standford SPARKee The SPARK concept |
Presentations of Norwegian SPARKeesProject leaders of SPARK teams from both the pilot phase and the first open call will present their projects. |
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Team member: Jonas Skogestad (presenter) Project leader: Magnus Aronsen, UiO
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Project leader: Simone Mester, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO Team members: Inger Sandlie (UiO) and Jan Terje Andersen (OUS) |
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Project leader: Henriette Andresen, Department of Pharmacology and Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO Team members: Lise Román Moltzau (UiO) Finn Olav Levy (UiO) og Alessandro Cataliotti (UiO) |
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RACeR: Improvement of A Genetic Tool that Enhances Homology Dependent Gene Repair Project leader: Adam Robertson, OUS Team members: Caroline Køster, Deo Pandey, Terezia Prikrylova, Rune Forstrøm and Arne Klungland |
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Novel therapy for ischemic reperfusion injury Project leader: Ana Isabel Costa Calejo, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Faculty of Medicine, UiO Team members: Kjetil Tasken (UiO/OUS), Jo Klaveness (UiO), Ivar Sjaastad (OUS), Magnus Aronsen (UiO/OUS), Mohammed Amarzguioui (Inven2) and Kristin Sandereid (Inven2) |
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Project leader: Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, UiO Team members: The research group MORPHOPLEX |
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Dr. Morten Egeberg, administrative leader of UiO:Life Science and founder of SPARK Norway The plans for SPARK Norway |
11:00–12:00 Lunch |
Targeted pharmacological treatment of ventricular arrhythmias
A novel strategy to tailor the pharmacokinetics of IgA antibodies 
Novel therapy for currently untreatable hypertension 
Healthy soils for a healthy life