Happy New Year! Be sure to take note of important deadlines and information for planning a successful new semester. Several new awards and honours. Registration for the spring courses in the postdoctoral programme. Nominations for the Jahre Prize and the Nobel Prize. The university's five awards. Election meetings. Scientia Fellows programme.
Changing staff, Greenlandic herbal medicine, and growing frustrations. An ongoing research project investigates how parents experience the management of their children’s eczema.
More people will be able to get a new liver. The main reasons for this are research on small carp fish from a pond in B?rum and an advanced machine at Norway’s National Hospital.
With 12 million kroners from the Norwegian Research Council, Muinde will lead a project that aims to understand how new global and regional pandemic financing initiatives meet governance, funding, and policy needs in Africa.
For more than two decades, the University of Oslo (UiO) has offered master's students summer studies in global health. International students have been and continue to be an important target group, but Norwegians are also encouraged to enrol.
Antibiotic shortages disrupt patient care, increase treatment costs, reduce effectiveness, and contribute to the rise of antibiotic resistance globally.
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo, with the rest of the faculty leadership, summarises 2024. Don't miss this opportunity to gain an overview of the key issues from 2024. Additionally, they offer their gratitude for the past year and wish all staff and students a very merry Christmas!
Christmas greeting with a summary of the most important matters as of December 2024 from the management. The professional programme in Medicine will transition to a pass/fail exam system. Detailed rules for the Ph.D. programme are up for internal consultation. The new faculty director introduces herself. Teaching award. Innovation funds to SFF CRESCO. ERC Consolidator grant to Hov. Aasb? receives 15 million kroner from the Research Council of Norway's sustainability call. Practical information for UiO employees.
Our new Faculty Director introduces herself and shares some of her impressions and thoughts from her first time at MED. She also provides information on ongoing developments within the administration at UiO.
Vice-Dean Grete Dyb provides an update on the internal hearing regarding the new supplementary regulations for the Ph.D. programme. The hearing will be sent out next week, with the deadline for feedback being 1th February,
Dean of Studies Magnus L?berg discusses the decision made at the Faculty Board meeting on 10th December: All exams in the medical degree programme will be assessed with pass/fail from autumn 2025.
Certain intestinal bacteria are found more frequently in Norway than in a number of other countries and there is also a higher incidence of bladder cancer, bowel cancer and prostate cancer. These findings may lead to new opportunities for preventing these types of cancer, according to a new study.
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo reflects on the final stretch of the semester, this year in the faculty leadership, and wishes everyone a joyous Advent season.
UiO's new joint department for comparative medicine. 12 million NOK from FRIPRO for Alzheimer’s research. Innovation funds awarded to six groups at the Faculty of Medicine. New representative on the faculty board. Join us for the Advent concert and Christmas tree lighting.
Our first Learning environment survey aims to take the pulse of student life at MED. It will inform us about the quality of the learning environment and is an important part of our efforts to improve the daily study experience at MED.
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about several visits from, among others, Estonia and Ukraine, and about a meeting with the Minister of Health. There is a lot going on: the Learning Environment Survey, the review of the PhD programme, and the development of the Skills Centre in new premises. MED is also inviting everyone to an important meeting about the rebuilding of health services in Gaza.
Faculty Board Election. Learning Environment Survey. Proposal for new PhD regulations will be subject to consultation in December. 24 million NOK to the University of Oslo from the Cancer Society. UiO Campus South wins an education award from Health South-East. Honorary Doctorate to Espen Bjertness. Haakon Meyer, honorary member of the Norwegian Epidemiological Association. Rebuilding of Health Services in Gaza.
Even though thin melanoma is increasing the most, the number of cases of thicker melanoma is also steadily on the rise, shows a large study of melanoma incidence in Norway since the 1980s. The thickness of the tumour is an important factor for the prognosis at the time of diagnosis.
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about grand award ceremonies, openings of new buildings, visits from Ukraine, the event with Gaza students, and elections at the University of Oslo.
Dean of Research Jan Bjaalie provides information about the process surrounding the new call for applications. The deadline to submit your application initiative to the faculty is 2 December.
First Female Professor in Medicine Appointed as Knight. Blix Prize Award Ceremony. The Dean Runs for Rector Election. FRIPRO Funds Awarded to Dennis van der Meer. Our Photographer ?sne Ramb?l Hillestad Won British Photography Award. Johanne Jacobsen Receives Scandinavian Immunology Award.
The number of cases of meningitis and blood poisoning is decreasing, and this is clearly due to the inclusion, since 2006, of pneumococcal disease into the child immunisation programme.
Professor Haakon Meyer from the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health was awarded Honorary Membership in the Norwegian Epidemiological Association (NOFE).
Guest Post: On 18th September, the University Board decided to establish the UiO’s new Centre for Global Sustainability. Through its employees, SUSTAINIT will become part of this new centre, which will start up before summer 2025, writes Head of Unit Eivind Engebretsen.
A new economic reality. FRIPRO - new opportunities. SUSTAINIT - becomes part of a new Center for Sustainability at UiO. 15 million to Joel Glover. Life mastery for medical students. Blix Prize ceremony. Faculty Board elections. Jahre lectures and awards. General meeting for everyone in the Life Science Building. Prepare for the new email system!
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