Newsletter August 2025
The UiO Growth House – UiO's innovation unit for life sciences, health, and technology
Introducing new innovation courses from the UiO Growth House
The UiO Growth House is developing courses that will increase innovation competence and capacity among researchers, including PhD candidates and postdocs, and other staff. Now we are introducing two courses:
16 October: Foundation level – IDEA
How to identify a good innovation idea from your research data
Have you ever wondered if there is an idea for an innovation project or even a start-up buried in your piles of research data? Or, how to know if that idea is any good? Then this interactive and reflective workshop is for you!
Read more about the course and sign up
Registration deadline: 9 October
11–13 November: Step-up level – Idea to Innovation (I2I)
How to turn your idea into a successful innovation project
This hands-on workshop introduces you to the tools you need to develop an academic research project into a successful innovation project. We’ll also cover funding opportunities and innovation grant writing as a potential next step for developing your project further.
Read more about the course and sign up
Registration deadline: 4 November
Reminder: Call the UiO innovation funds for researchers – apply by 1 September
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea based on your research that can contribute to solving an important need in society, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields and both commercial and non-commercial projects. UiO has dedicated NOK 5 million to this call, and there are two categories of funding:
- Funding of idea and concept phase of up to 50 000 NOK per project
- Funding of test and further development phase of up to 400 000 NOK per project
Application deadline: 1 September 2025
The UiO Growth House manages the application process on behalf of UiO. Please send an email to innovation@growthhouse.uio.no if you have any questions.
4 September: Sign up for innovation hangout for academia and industry
With this meeting place we want to inspire, give self-confidence and knowledge about innovation processes and facilitate collaboration that puts more research to use for the benefit of patients and society.
Venue: Oslo Science Park
Time: 17–20
Programme
- Inspirational talk: Karoline Schjetne, PhD, Director R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Role model talk: Marit Inngjerdingen, PhD, Founder & CEO and Miriam Aarsund Larsen, PhD, CSO, Cellmover
- Pitches from companies: Dehns, Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), baba, precision-health.ai, AbbVie, Regenics, IQVIA and Organon
- Networking where participants can talk to all the speakers and companies.
Collaborators: The Life Science Cluster and Nansen Neuroscience Network
22 October: Sign up for our innovation conference Science Impact 2025 – tomorrow's solutions start today
Spend a day with great science, innovation and networking opportunities at this meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry.? Topics: antimicrobial resistance, cancer, neuroscience, materials science, social innovation, and women's health. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week.
At this conference we focus on initiatives in academia and industry and the need for collaboration as well as framework conditions needed to put research to use for the benefit of patients and society.
Venue: Oslo Science Park
Time: 8–17
Sessions:
- Impact Breakfast: Antimicrobial resistance – a global challenge with urgent need for new solutions
- Parallel sessions:
- Cancer treatment – Oslo a world-leading hub for radiopharmacy
- Materials science advancing medical research and development
- Parallel sessions:
- Neuroscience – better diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis
- Social innovation
- Impact Afternoon: Women's health research and development
See the lineup of great speakers and sign up
Main organiser: The UiO Growth House
Internal partners at the University of Oslo (UiO): Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Centre for Global Sustainability, Department of Informatics, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology and SPARK Social Innovation
External partners: Inven2, SINTEF, The Life Science Cluster, Nansen Neuroscience Network, Oslo Cancer Cluster, LMI, Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Oslo Science City and Oslo Science Park
Our service Innovation Coffee Time continues
Researchers at three departments at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences – biosciences, chemistry and pharmacy – are offered in-house innovation guidance from the UiO Growth House also this fall.
You can drop in or schedule a meeting to discuss innovation ideas or get information on courses and funding opportunities. Researchers from other departments are also welcome to come by.
Arendalsuka: Health industry – how to take action with speed and power?
At Arendalsuka we hosted the meeting Health industry – how to take action with speed and power? in collaboration with Aleap, Health2B, Melanor, HelseOmsorg21-r?det, Norway Health Tech, Oslo Science Park, Oslo Science City, Oslo Cancer Cluster, The Life Science Cluster, Inven2 and LMI.
News from projects that have received support
Five innovation projects at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine received seed funding through the UiO Growth House call this spring. The projects range from research on biomarkers in infectious and inflammatory diseases, heart medicine and celiac disease, new treatments for tuberculosis and fungal infections, and analysis of babies' exhaled breath in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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Have you received support and have news from your project that you would like to share with others? Send an email to norunnt@uio.no to be included in the newsletter.
Contact us if you have an early-phase innovation idea!
We offer tailored guidance and support, including seed funding up to NOK 200,000. Contact us if you want to discuss how to proceed with your early-phase innovation idea.
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Published 21 August