Newsletter February 2022
The Life Science Growth House – UiO’s new innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology –? opened the doors 18 February. Now we will help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas in close collaboration with units at UiO and our innovation ecosystem.
Read about our innovation services and contact us!
Are you a student at UiO or a researcher at UiO, OUS or Ahus and have an innovation idea in life sciences or are wondering if you have an idea?
Contact the Life Science Growth House to get access to counselling, seed funding, mentors and meeting places and more and get started on your innovation process.
Business clusters, incubators and companies that want to collaborate with us, are also welcome to contact us.
Join our innovation hangouts
A new informal innovation meeting place where researchers and students from UiO may interact with actors from the public sector, hospitals, companies, mentors, business clusters and incubators in our innovation ecosystem. We offer inspirational talks, talks from role models, matchmaking, food and beverage and mingling. Programme and registration form will be published later – save the dates!
See pictures and read about our launch seminar
We invited the whole innovation ecosystem for life sciences in Oslo to our launch seminar and official opening 17 February. News about the launch (in Norwegian):
- ?pner veksthus der gode livsvitenskapelige ideer skal gro, titan.uio.no
- UiO opna veksthus for livsvitskap, helse og teknologi, uniforum.uio.no
- ?pnet veksthus for livsvitenskap, khrono.no
The Life Science Growth House in 88 seconds
In Norwegian.
Hilde Nebb appointed innovation director
Professor Hilde Nebb has been appointed innovation director for the Life Science Growth House. She is currently vice-dean for innovation and internationalisation at the Faculty of Medicine at UiO and has been interim leader of the Growth House.
Meet us at First Friday Coffee 4 March
Innovation director Hilde Nebb gives a pitch about the Life Science Growth House at First Friday Coffee in Oslo Science Park on 4 March at 8.30–9 AM. The Growth House team will be present. Come by and meet us!
UiO joins the European life science network EIT Health
Our membership in EIT Health gives innovative researchers at UiO and UiO's innovation ecosystem new opportunities to obtain funding from the EU and building networks that can contribute to more knowledge from research being put into use. Several open calls for startups now. Calls that are also relevant to researchers will be out in April. Innovation adviser in the Life Science Growth House Nicolay Bérard-Andersen coordinates the membership. Contact him if you have any questions!