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PharmaTox arranged a seminar March 24th.

The University library is arranging the exhibition "Women!" - celebrating and acclaiming female researchers within natural sciences at the University. 

Congratulations, Robert and Eivind, as partners in the new Centre of Excellence for Fertility and Health established at Norwegian Institute of Public Health!

Congratulations, Ragnhild as partner in the new SFF Centre of Cancer Cell Programming (CanCell)! An inspiration to all women in science. 

A warm welcome to guest researcher Stine Kleppe Krogsrud. She starts working with us on March 6. Read more about her projects. 

The first WiDS Oslo event will be held Friday February the 3rd in The Science Library, Vilhelm Bjerknes Hus, 3pm-9pm. 

New article in Titan about the collaboration between PharmaTox researchers and Smartfish entrepreneurs, on verifying the advantages of nutrition drinks. 

PharmaTox PhD student Stefania Salvatore will defend her PhD thesis the 20th of January 2017. The title of her thesis is: Application of functional data analysis (FDA) to weekly wastewater data. 

We welcome Mussie Ghezu Hadera. 

Below he presents himself and his background. 

PharmaTox arranged a PhD and postdoc day November 25th. 

The PharmaTox Honours Program in Quantitative Life Sciences has been funded by NFR!

PharmaTox seminar series was held on October 28th at the School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, with over 50 participants.

New article in Titan: Scientists have developed new tools and data sets that provide accurate information on how pregnant women can use medicine safely.

New article by PharmaTox postdoc Mollie Wood published on BMJ open.

Short term use of paracetamol in pregnancy seems safe, but long-term use was associated with delayed psychomotor development in the latest MoBa study.

Mollie Wood and colleagues participated in the conference, which was organized by the International Society of PharmacoEpidemiology (ISPE) and took place in Dublin on August 25-28

This milestone study will enable researchers all over the world to perform more correct epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) on prenatal exposure to different environmental factors.

We welcome Lene Sundbakk!

Read about Lene's background.

Martin is starting his PhD under supervisor Ragnhild Eskeland. Read about Martin's background as he presents himself.

PhD students Haakon Egdetveit Nustad and Mari Spildrejorde have recently started their PhD at PharmaTox. Below they present themselves.

A new study shows Paracetamol use during pregnancy increases the risk of hyperactivity in children. Professor Hedvig Nordeng confirms that such results have been seen in three previous studies.

Associate Professor Geir Kjetil Sandve interviews for The Norwegian National Committies for Research Ethics on the subject of reproducible research and the challenge of transparancy and reproducibility when analyzing sensitive data.

Professor Ragnhild Paulsen and Dr. Ragnhild Eskeland receive funding from Anders Jahres fond.

We are very happy to welcome Stefania Salvatore into the PharmaTox Strategic Research environment at the MN-faculty!

Stefania  will have her daily workplace at the Department of informatics (IFI). Below, she has presented herself.