In 2022 the Life Science Growth House was established as UiO’s innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology. In 2023 we change our name to UiO Growth House to show that we cover all departments and centres at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
This year's Bonnevie Prize has been awarded to Leif Ryvarden for his work in sharing and disseminating knowledge about species, through several major reference works.
The Life Science Growth House is the innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo. We help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas. Watch our 2022 summary.
This year's Titan Award goes to biology professor Dag O. Hessen from IBV and CBA, who has prioritized communication throughout his career. Congratulations, well deserved!
With this film we wish all our students, staff, collaboration partners and everyone else a very happy holiday.
During Christmas, there are short working days and limited capacity. At IBV, the expedition, IT and the purchasing office have closed all or partially during Christmas.
In the research group of Professor Alessandro Cataliotti at the University of Oslo, the School of Health Innovation plays a vital role in the training of young researchers. Both the professor and his PhD student Reza Parvan have found the innovation courses highly relevant to broaden the career opportunities for young researchers.
Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.
The University of Oslo have long worked to reduce the energy consumption. High energy prices and increased costs has made it necessary to introduce new measures, with the aim of further reducing the usage. This is how IBV is affected by the new measures.
Learn how to commercialize research or ideas into business ventures and how to innovate services in a clinical setting. Apply for admission to the spring course in health innovation and entrepreneurship. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.
AstraZeneca, the SPARK Norway programme at University of Oslo and Oslo Cancer Cluster enter a new mentoring collaboration for life science start-ups.
Great success for new science career day, where students received career guidance from companies, and answers to questions about research education from fellows.
The Norway Life Science 2023 conference brings together key actors for developing a world-leading healthcare industry in Norway. The theme of the conference is interaction between health, technology and society.
Norbert Pirk and Frans-Jan Parmentier, who are CBA researchers, contributed with data from Norway in a research study led by researchers at the University of Zurich.
UiO researchers who experience threats or harassment must contact the Security Operation Centre and their immediate line managers, and have now been provided with a checklist of other things they should do after having received a threat.
Reduced indoor temperatures, co-use of buildings, and closed charging ports for electric cars are among some of the measures that will come into effect in an effort to reduce energy usage.
Fifty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The end of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
The government proposes to give the Norwegian Research Council the necessary time and resources to prepare for a demanding budget situation.
- These are welcome clarifications that have a significant impact on Norway's knowledge development and competitive strength, says Rector Svein St?len at the University of Oslo.
The University of Oslo, organised in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), the event "Is there hope for the Oslofjord" on 29 September. The theme arouses great interest and many people participated in Domus Bibliotheca.
In autumn 2021, six new convergence environments were granted funding for a period of four years. The interdisciplinary research groups have started up during 2022 and are well underway with the recruitment of PhDs and Postdoctoral fellows for their research projects.
Arnoldo Frigessi and Arne Klungland are granted Norwegian Centres of exellence.
Centre of Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene's annual meeting was held in Hurdal on 26-27 September 2022 with many interesting research studies, new ideas, helpful feedbacks from different disciplines, and new collaborations.
Rebecca E. Holt from the Department of Biosciences is one of 21 young research talents, whom the Research Council of Norway supports with funds for aquaculture and marine research.
Recently published two scientific articles by CBA researchers are highlighted in Dagens N?ringsliv Magasinet.
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Leif Andersson, and Hopi E. Hoekstra organized a special feature of PNAS.
