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Departments/faculties at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for support to develop interdisciplinary courses within life sciences. Deadline: open-ended.

Happy New Year from Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo. Introducing the new Office of the Dean. Semester kick-off for the entire Faculty is on 18 January. 

Pro-Dean of Research and Innovation Jan Bj?lie and Vice-Dean of Research and Organised Research Training Grete Dyb introduce themselves and their thoughts on the work ahead

Introducing Pro-Dean Magnus L?berg and Vice-Dean Eli Feiring and their thoughts on the work ahead

The new Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo welcomes you to a new year with new challenges and opportunities. She invites us all to the semester kick-off on Wednesday, 18 January in the Large Auditorium at the Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet.

Every year, many people get ill from the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, and some variants are resistant to nearly all kinds of antibiotics. A team of scientists have now found out more about how infections from these variants arise.

The Sustainable Health Unit, a new knowledge cluster at MED, was approved in the Medical Faculty Board on 13 December 2022. The unit will highlight challenges, discussions and sustainable solutions to global and local health issues.

Researchers at NORCHER ¨C Norwegian Centre for Health Services Research have studied whether horizon scanning can be used to identify new and innovative healthcare services.

Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.

Norwegian Centennial Chair (NOCC) aims to promote cooperation in research and academic education between UiO, NMBU and the University of Minnesota. Deadline: Open-ended.

In a systematic review in The Lancet, PhD-student Camilla Gr?ver Aukrust and colleagues have studied the causes of hydrocephalus in African children.

New research on roundworms demonstrates that it may be possible to slow down the aging process.

A doctor discovers bacteria in a sample that is causing a case of pneumonia and prescribes antibiotics. But at the same time, there is another, nastier variant of bacteria lurking in the patient¡¯s body that is very glad to have got rid of its competitor. 

Many came too late to recieve prenatal care. There was a high occurence of emergency c-sections, babies being born too early or stillborn amoung the women.

If you have a stroke, the protein FSAP may help to reduce the extent of paralyses and problems with speech.

The European Innovation Council Pathfinder Challenges program funds the international research consortium ¡°Supervised Morphogenesis in Gastruloids¡± - SUMO

In the Middle Ages, people of high status were both taller and had higher bone density than those from modest backgrounds. This difference was most marked amongst women, shows a new study based on the Schreiner Collection.

The health and level of functioning of older adults with cancer varies. A comprehensive assessment of the patient's needs in advance of cancer treatment can improve treatment and lead to more treatment choices for the patients.

Almost half of all patients with heart failure have an "unknown" type. Researchers at UiO have studied whether biomarkers can provide better opportunities for diagnosis.

You are sitting in a meeting at work and your mind starts to wander to another place. Suddenly, you realise that the person leading the meeting has asked you a question that you have not heard. Why does this happen?

India produces 20 percent of all generic medicines worldwide, but depends on ingredients from China to make the medicines.

New study shows that colonoscopy-screening reduces the risk of getting colorectal cancer by 18 percent. The reduction is less than experts previously assumed.

Study contributes to new knowledge about what prevents and promotes family involvement in treatment of patients with severe mental disorders.

Why does it become harder to concentrate when you have Alzheimer¡¯s disease? The explanation is perhaps that the signals transmitted from glial cells to nerve cells are disrupted.