New research from NORMENT finds that people with schizophrenia have a genetic propensity to smoking and a reduced genetic risk of obesity. The study highlight the importance of including lifestyle interventions in treatment for schizophrenia.
Norwegian researchers have previously demonstrated an association between diabetes and virus infection. New research shows that, among children with type 1 diabetes, treatment with antiviral drugs could help preserve insulin levels. The result shows that it is possible to slow down and eventually prevent type 1 diabetes.
Researchers have identified a novel immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Immune cells are programmed to recognize a mutation found in leukemia patients. The results provide hope for new and effective treatment for the most common form of leukemia in adults.
NorDoc gives you a unique opportunity to tailor your PhD education. Plan your participation at NorDoc’s summer school 2024 in Finland now! Make a smart career move by running for temporary employee representative in the Faculty Board election.
Informative meeting on ‘Health for Ukraine’. The research festival for the whole family at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. The Medicine Blog turns five years old.
Fabulous research dissemination at MED. 5 years of the Medicine Blog! Read about the opportunities NorDoc gives researchers at MED. Run as a candidate for the Faculty Board!
A new UiO-study shows that pregnant, undocumented women are more often severely ill and must be admitted to the hospital, when they seek help at the emergency room in Oslo.
Invite family and friends to see what your job entails! As an UiO employee, you can get tickets that provide you and your guests with free admission to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
UiO is now launching an electronic lab journal for research.
The faculty’s updated guidelines for lab journals were adopted by Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo in the previous Management Forum. All researchers must follow the new rules.
Congratulations on UiO Campus South, new student places to study medicine, awards and grants, - and participate in this autumn’s events!
The opening of Campus South. New student places to study medicine. ERC awarded to Boccara. New guidelines for lab journals and the possibility of getting electronic lab journals.
Vice Dean for Research and Research Education, Grete Dyb, provides an update on the research education at the faculty
Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo welcomes all employees and students to the 2023 autumn semester
The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO Early Career Scientists call is open. Deadline: open-ended.
The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO call for Experienced Scientists is open. Deadline: open-ended.
The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO three-year researcher project with international mobility call is open. Deadline: open-ended.
Wellcome's Discovery Research Funding aims to generate knowledge that leads to a shift in understanding or delivers new insight into how human life and health work. It welcomes proposals that may have a clinical or societal impact or have translational potential, but the focus should be on discovery research. Deadline: various dates.
Researchers at NCMM have demonstrated the mechanisms behind the activation of Aurora B, a central conductor of cell division. Their findings can lay the foundations for developing new cancer drugs.
In 2023-2024, the EU is conducting a pilot for blind evaluation of applications to Horizon Europe
The Office of the Dean wishes everyone a good summer and describes the ongoing work on the faculty's strategy and annual plan for 2024-2026, and gives a reminder about the opportunity to apply to become a distinguished educator at UiO.
The Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation provides us with an update on the status of the Life Science Building from the perspective of the Faculty of Medicine (MED). We are now seeing the building take form and it is exciting to be part of the planning of the building in the final phase.
Guest article: The internal innovation unit the UiO Growth House will contribute to a stronger innovation culture at the University of Oslo to put more knowledge from research to use, says innovation director and professor Hilde I. Nebb.
Guest post: Acting Head of the Centre for Pandemic and One-Health Research (P1H), Jens Petter Berg, writes about the intentions behind the establishment of the centre, which was officially opened on 30 May
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