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Helga Refsum obtained her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Bergen, where she also became a Professor of Pharmacology in 1992. Since 2004, she has been a Professor at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Professor at University of Oxford. She is a world-renowned researcher on homocysteine, B vitamins, cysteine, and their roles in cardiovascular disease, dementia, and obesity.
To celebrate Professor Refsum’s 60th birthday and her outstanding contributions to science, we welcome you to a symposium with presentations on Helga’s current and past research topics.
Cand.med. Jenny Maria Nordfalk at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Clinical communication. Defining, assessing, and improving the sharing of complex treatment information with multiple sclerosis patients” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Anne Gry Fadum Carlsen at The Department of Teacher Education and School research will be defending the thesis "Strategisk ledelse i fylkeskommunen. En studie av lederes fortellinger og strategiske handlinger ved gjennomf?ring av strategiske planer" for the degree of PhD.
Stefano Coretta (Edinburgh) will give a guest lecture about why the IPA vowel chart doesn't work
Cand.med. Ane Marie Anderson at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Broad protection against influenza by DNA vaccines that target mixtures of diverse hemagglutinins to APCs” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Seyed Hossein Moosavi at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Clinical implications of transcriptomic and pharmacological tumor heterogeneity of metastatic colorectal cancers” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Kristin Grotle Nore at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The Eicosanoid system – effects on pathogenesis and potential as targets for Host Directed Therapy in Tuberculosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Catharina Petronella Johanna van Trijp at the Department of Education will be defending the thesis "Toddlers’ Social-Emotional Well-Being in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Role of Child Temperament and Process Quality" for the degree of PhD.
Department seminar. ?rem Gü?eri is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, at the University of Oxford. She will present the paper: "Dynamics of Financing Frictions for R&D."
MD Eivind Westrum Aabel at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Prediction of arrhythmic risk in patients with mitral annular disjunction” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand. med. Alexander Nilsskog Fraser at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty in the operative treatment of displaced proximal humeral fractures” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Dr Bonnie Evans is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Metamorphosis of Autism (Manchester University Press). She has a PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, and has held a research fellowship at King’s College, London's Centre for Medical Humanities. She has lectured in the international history of child sciences, psychology and eugenics. In addition to her academic work, she writes for popular publications such as Aeon Magazine, and has appeared on BBC television.
Employees at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Oslo University Hospital (OUS), who will relocate to the Life Sciences Building when it is completed in 2027, are invited to the seminar "How do we live together?"
Open lectures by this year's Abel Prize winner Luis Caffarelli and three other specially invited matematicians.
MD Kristian Berge at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Diagnostic and prognostic assessment in patients with acute heart failure and acute dyspnea” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Invited speaker Professor Jussi Taipale will present at the NCMM Tuesday Seminar on the topic “Towards predicting gene expression from sequence”.
Master of International Community Health Lillian Ziyenda Katenga-Kaunda at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Nutrition education and counselling to enhance dietary diversity among pregnant women in rural Malawi” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. Johannes Haushofer is a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. He will present the paper: "The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and Psychotherapy on Psychological and Economic Well-being" (written with Robert Mudida and Jeremy Shapiro).
Cand. theol Jon Petter Heesch at the Faulty of Theology will be defending the thesis "The Spirituality of the “Sichtungszeit”, as expressed in the thirty-four homilies on the Litany of the Wounds." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Master in Economics Maria Nareklishvili at Department of Economics will defend the thesis "Network Structures in Observational Data" for the PhD degree.
What happens when political priorities, cultural squabbles and business interests undermine public health efforts during a pandemic? In this breakfast seminar, Professor Emily Mendenhall will discuss how people responded to COVID-19 in Okoboji, a small town in the American Midwest.
MSc Richard John Massey at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Cardiac dysfunction in young survivors of allogeneic stem-cell transplantation” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Pawel Wilkosz at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The impact of unilateral oophorectomy on follicle dynamics, reproductive ageing, and infertility treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Department seminar. John Finlay is a postdoc at Columbia Business School. He will present the paper: "Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation."
Master Klaudia Dominika Karpińska at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation On Wings to the Otherworld: Bird Remains in Viking Age Graves from Scandinavia for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).