Are you a scientist working on health-related topics in the life science domain? Do you have an idea for a new solution or technology with innovation potential, but need help to take the next steps? Apply for UiO:Life Science’s two-year innovation programme SPARK Norway. The deadline was 9 November 2023.
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New Norwegian record with two bronze medals in the international Biology Olympiad, one for Jaesung Shin and the other for Karoline Ravlo-Losvik. Congratulations!
You can either have a guided tour with one of the hosts, or use our brand new audio guide.
The prestigious researcher organization EMBO has announced their new members in 2023.
Now students who want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship can take an honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. From 15 September it will possible to apply for admission, the application deadline is 15 October. The studies will start in January 2024.
The University Library's collection contains a lot of LGBTQ+ literature. Here we present subject books and fiction related to lgbtq+ themes, gender and sexuality.
The university library introduces a two-week loan period. Now you won't have to wait long for popular books.
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea for a new product, service, solution or technology based on your research, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The application deadline was 31 August. Now we are evaluating the applications.
Learn from experienced entrepreneurs, leaders and academics how to develop your own research idea into a company. Apply for admission to the fall course in entrepreneurship in healthcare. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.
This is the first book dedicated to compiling state-of-the-art visualization in porous materials.
The book serves as a reference for teachers, scientists, and engineers working with porous materials. Many of the contributors are affiliated with PoreLab and the Njord Centre.
The Nordic SPARK programs which include UiO:Life Science' innovation program SPARK Norway, have successfully collaborated over several years to boost the emergence of new innovative solutions in the health tech and life science field. Collaboration in mentoring of the projects started a few years ago, and we are now building the next level joint efforts.
Founded in 1780, this is one of the oldest and most prestigious Academies in the U.S. Nils Chr. Stenseth was elected as an International Honorary Member in the section for Evolution and Ecology.
Congratulations to 16 research groups at the University of Oslo that have been granted seed funding! The researchers will use the funding to further develop their own innovation ideas with the aim to put the research to use. All who applied for seed funding, will now be offered follow-up from the UiO Growth House.
Professor Christoph Koch is a world-reknowned neuroscientist currently working as Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute in Seattle. While visiting he will give two open seminars:
The Physical Substrate of Consciousness – Progress and Problems
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?
Cecilie Mathiesen has been awarded the University of Oslo's HSE prize for 2022, for her extraordinary efforts for the working environment in the workplace.
Researchers from CEES and EVOGENE published new research on protein evolution caused by short tandem repeats.
Jenny L. McGuire, A. Michelle Lawing, Sandra Díaz, and Nils Chr. Stenseth organized a special feature of PNAS.
The research project The Nansen Legacy has shown that it is possible to have a good balance of gender at the top level. Not only is the project managed by a woman, but 40% of the project managers are women. Just to top it all off, the administration of the project consists only of women.
The visual artist Ellen Karin Mæhlum has been making a collection of prints based on microscopy pictures of brain cells from CINPLA. Images shows neurons surrounded by perineuronal nets.
The 18th edition of Darwin Day at the University of Oslo was titled "a multidisciplinary approach to save the common Scandinavian marine waters".
Do you have an innovative idea based on your research for a new product or service, but need funding to develop your early-stage technology or service further? Apply for seed funding from the UiO Growth House! Application deadline 14 March 2023.
The University of Oslo has students and staff who are affected by what is happening to friends and family hit by the earthquake in Turkey, Syria, and nearby areas. – We want to express our deepest condolences to those afflicted by this enormous tragedy, says Rector Svein Stølen.
The Board of the University has established new guidelines for how violations of research ethics norms are to be processed. This is part of the ongoing work with research ethics at UiO.
The Library of Things opened in the HumSam Library on January 16. Come by and borrow a drill, a back pack or maybe a spade!
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or master's student in life sciences and looking for career opportunities outside academia - then you must sign up for Norway Life Science 2023!