Newsletter March 2025

Newsletter from UiO:Life Science

March 2025

SPARK Europe showcase event

13�C14 March the first ever SPARK Europe showcase event took place in Birmingham. From SPARK Norway six teams participated.

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Pharmaceutical Drug Development & Regulatory Compliance

Join us for the SPARK Norway Educational Forum on 2 April, where we will explore the complex journey of drug development while balancing groundbreaking innovation with regulatory requirements.

We are pleased to welcome Kees Groen, Co-founder CEO at DGr Pharma and Ron van 't Hof Director Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control also DGr Pharma, as our guest speakers.

See the programme and sign up

Application for convergence environments �C final deadline

The deadline to submit proposal is closed. The next important deadline is 27 May 2025 when the full application should be submitted.

Go to the call

Listen to podcasts

The podcast series Nysgjerrige Norge (Curious Norway)

Kristopher Schau meets the country's leading scientific personalities and talks with them about what led them to where they are today and the research they conduct.

Listen to episodes with Stefan Krauss and Arnoldo Frigessi who have been leaders of UiO:Life Science's convergence environments.

On organ transplantation

Listen to podcast with K?re-Olav Stensl?kken, leader of the convergence environment 3DR, where he talks about his career and research projects (podcast in Norwegian).

Also read the article Transplantation: More people will be able to receive a new liver in 2025 in Science Norway.

FRIPRO funds to Marit Inngjerdingen

Picture of Marit Inngjerdingen. We congratulate Marit Inngjerdingen for receiving 12 million kroner for the FRIPRO project ?Cytotoxic activity of NK cell-derived extracellular vesicles against cancer cells?.
Inngjerdingen has received incentive funds from UiO:Life Science for writing the application.