Around one in three people over the age of 70 are considered to be partially frail. Nutritionists are now going to investigate whether diet can prevent frailty, and to what extent.
After 150 media interviews about the immune system this past year, Anne Spurkland is publishing a new book on how food, sleep and vaccines affect the immune system. She is also awarded the University of Oslo’s Dissemination Prize.
Stine Marie Ulven took over as the new Head of the Department of Nutrition from 1st January. You can read about her ambitions for the Department here.
OCBE (Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology) provides statistical and epidemiological advising in COVID-19 projects for researchers and students of the Medical Faculty of the University of Oslo, of the Oslo University Hospital and of South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (HS?).
We are also happy to support other national and international projects.
PI Gareth Sullivan has co-authored a new publication on Synthetic Analyses of Single-Cell Transcriptomes from Multiple Brain Organoids and Fetal Brain
Stefan Krauss, Hanne Scholz, Steven Wilson and Carl Henrik G?rbitz have written an article on the centre's work on developing organ on a chip technology in Aftenposten.
Hanne Scholz is one of the editors for the upcoming Frontiers in Genetics Research issue on the topic: Beta-Cell Fate: From Gene Circuits to Disease Mechanisms.
Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority have awarded Hybrid Technology Hub members Jo Waaler and Stefan a grant of 1 000 000 NOK for theproject "Tankyrase Inhibiton in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Center members Fr?ydis Skottvoll, Simon Rayner, Gareth Sullivan, Stefan Krauss, Steven Ray Wilson and Sean Harrison have a new publication in the journal Electrophoreses, titled: 3D cell culture models and organ‐on‐a‐chip: Meet separation science and mass spectrometry
This years 'Tidy-Up Week' at the institute is set for week 42, that is from Monday 14 October to Friday 18 October.
You will find a more detailed program and practical information here.
UiO are about to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and IMB have to reinstall all computers with Windows 7.
Hybrid Technology Hub researcher Jo Waaler is awarded a grant of 4,4 million NOK for the project Tankyrase Inhibition in Cancer Immunotherapy. The grant is awarded by Helse S?r ?st.
SPARK Norway is UiO:Life Science’s innovation programme for health-related life sciences. Meet three of the SPARKees and get inspired to apply.
UiO:Life Science hopes to see Norwegian finalists in the pitch competition at the tech conference SLUSH in Helsinki on 5 December. The winner is granted 30 000 euros. Life science students and researchers in startups or pre-startups are welcome to apply before 1 October at 12:00.
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.
Six new teams have been admitted to UiO?s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.
The new innovation programme SPARK Norway at UiO has admitted the first research groups – so called SPARKees. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences further for the benefit of patients and society.
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 OUS or Ahus can apply UiO:Life Science to be included in the programme.
Minister of Education and Research Torbj?rn R?e Isaksen visited UiO today with promises of a start-up grant for UiO's new life science building
Apply UiO:Life Science for support for internationalization, conferences and other events. The application deadline is 1st of December 2017.
UiO:Life Science plans the launch of the SPARK innovation programme, developed by Stanford University. The goal is to get more innovation out of basic research. The other two European SPARK programs visit Oslo this summer to share their experiences, and one of UiO's PhD students will test the program's summer school in Japan.
