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  • Dec. 15, 2020

    The need for innovation in health care – success stories and success factors and opportunities at BII also for Oslo-based researchers and entrepreneurs

    Hervør Lykke Olsen, PhD

    Senior business developer, BioInnovation Institute (BII), Denmark

    Watch her presentation.

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    Chair: Marianne Andenæs

    Communications advisor at SiO and senior advisor at the Association of Norwegian Student Welfare Organisations (Samskipnadsrådet)

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    When one half of the attendees were speed dating. The other half got to know more about useful services. This part of the event was not filmed.

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    New trends in innovation and collaboration in health-related and environmental life sciences – why are Nordic actors attractive partners for Fraunhofer?

    Claus-Dieter Kroggel, PhD

    Head of Central Office, Fraunhofer Group for Life Sciences, Germany

    Watch his presentation.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    How are international regulations of pollutants followed up nationally and locally in Norway and Tanzania? The workshop "Pollution: Monitoring and Policy" brought together Norwegian and Tanzanian environmental authorities to address how international regulations on persistent organic pollutants are met nationally and locally.

    The workshop "Mimicry in Metabolism(s): Industrial Chemicals, Synthetic Hormones, and Unruly Bodies" brought together people from different disciplines inside and outside academia in order to enable a dialogue on mimicry as a productive concept to understand and juxtapose industrial chemicals and synthetic hormones.

    Hosted by the convergence environment AnthroTox

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Our chair for the pitching session was Jutta Heix from Oslo Cancer Cluster

    We had pitches from UiO:Life Science's convergence environments, projects in UiO:Life Science's innovation programme for health related life sciences SPARK Norway and industry in Oslo.

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    Speed networking where the participants had the opportunity to sit down and talk to companies.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    In this seminar international experts and junior speakers from the UiO:Life Science convergence environment PerCaThe discussed innovative methods for personalized and precision cancer therapy. The topics included drug sensitivity screening, machine learning and combined mathematical, statistical and imaging methods for cancer modeling and simulation of drug treatment. 

    See the programme for the event.

    Hosted by the convergence environment Personalized cancer therapy (PerCaThe)

    Read about the work of the convergence environment in Aftenposten (in Norwegian)

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    The amounts of data generated presents unique opportunities in research and technological innovations. It also raises a range of challenges, including data standards, analysis and visualization, as well as ethical considerations such as data protection, privacy and ownership. This symposium  explored the increasing role that data plays in our lives. The event explored research and technological innovations that involve data and the society.

    See the programme for the event.

    Hosted by the convergence environment Organ on a chip and the Hybrid Technology Hub Center of Excellence

    Read about the work of the convergence environment in Aftenposten (in Norwegian)

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Future models for diabetes research by using new strategies for stem cell differentiation – collaboration between medicine, musicology and physics

    Hanne Scholz, PhD

    Leader of the convergence environment Artificial Biomimetic systems – the Niche of Islet Organoids (ABINO)PI in the convergence environment Organ on a chip and Vice Director of the Centre of Excellence Hybrid Technology Hub

    Watch her presentation.

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    This year's Darwin Day event covered a moonshot for biology: Resolving all genomes on earth within a decade! 

    See the programme for the event.

    Hosted by the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), UiO

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Inhibition of aortic valve calcification

    SPARKee Kåre-Olav Stensløkken, Professor

    Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UiO. He is also leader a convergence environment.

    Watch his presentation.

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    MyFood – a decision support system to prevent and treat disease-related malnutrition

    SPARKee Mari Mohn Paulsen, PhD student

    Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, UiO

    Watch her presentation.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    The participants attended 1:1 networking with representatives from Abbvie, AstraZeneca, Bama, Bayer, Bellona, Biogen, Cambi, GE Healthcare, Innovation Norway, Insj UiO, Life Science Team, Link Medical, Merck Group, NCE Heidner BioCluster, Norwegian Agricultural Cooperatives, Pfizer, Pubgene, Simula, SINTEF, Takeda, The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), The Research Council of Norway, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Yara.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    For the third time the Biotechnology Day was part of the Oslo Life Science Conference. What were the most important biotechnology debates in 2019? What will be important this year?

    See the programme and watch the event (in Norwegian)

    Hosted by The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board 

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Fabuli – Faster and Better Ultrasound Imaging

    SPARKee Andreas Austeng, Professor

    Department of Informatics, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO

    Watch his presentation.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    We invited upper secondary schools to the Museum of science and technology to get to know the digital universe in life sciences and biotechnology that we have developed in collaboration with The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the edtech company Creaza. The pupils also got to hear about an exciting organ-on-a-chip project at UiO.

    Hosted by UiO:Life Science and The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    We invited the oldest children in a kindergarten to join us for "Programming: Bees and Flowers" at the Museum of science and technology.

    Hosted by UiO:Life Science 

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Empowering cancer immunotherapy with AI

    Jenny-Ann Malmberg, PhD

    Software Development Manager, NEC Oncoimmunity

    Watch her presentation.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    We invited the citizens of Oslo to an indoor light event at the Museum of science and technology with glimpses of life sciences at UiO. We had stations with activities arranged as a light walk and the visitors got to meet scientists and students from medicine, biosciences, pharmacy, physics, psychology and chemistry as well as three cute robots.

    See the beautiful pictures from the event.

    Hosted by UiO:Life Science in collaboration with faculties and departments at UiO

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Legal aspects of AI 

    Vibeke Binz Vallevik

    Project Manager the BIGMED Project, DNV GL Precision Medicine research and OUS Intervention Center

    Watch her presentation.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    Conversation between Carl Henrik Gørbitz, director of UiO:Life Science, and the new UiO:Life Science Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) with Laurence D. Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics and Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution Department of Biology and Biochemistry, The University of Bath;  Sirpa Jalkanen, Professor of Immunology, Academician, Director of MediCity, University of Turku, Finland and Jari Koistinaho, Director of Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki and Professor of Regenerative Medicine, University of Eastern Finland.

    The fourth member of the SAB, Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was not present at the event.

  • Dec. 15, 2020

    An exhibition of striking microscopy images from researchers in the convergence environment Programming Cell-Like Compartments. They gave us a glimpse into the nano world – a "Wunderkammer" – where science becomes art. 

    See pictures and read about the opening event.

    Hosted by the convergence environment Programmable Cell-like Compartments. Curated and exhibited by Kunstplass Contemporary Art