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Rector election 2025: Use your right to vote between 24 March and 4 April

The Leo Foundation welcomes applications for dermatology research projects. There are two deadlines: 2 April and 11 September 2025.

An increasing number of individuals experience discomfort in the gut or are being diagnosed with intestinal conditions such as coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Scientists have now mapped the cells in the gut as part of The Human Cell Atlas project, revealing several new findings.

The university allows staff to take time off during work hours to donate blood, which can be recorded as short-term leave.

Gestational diabetes, hypertension, preeclampsia, and preterm birth can be warning signs that a mother has a genetic vulnerability to cardiovascular diseases.

When it comes to lung cancer, we know of more than 30 substances that are carcinogenic. But when researchers began investigating why there is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in firefighters, they had little to go on.

The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO - Radical Research Ideas for Early Career Scientists is planned. Deadline: Open-ended.

The Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO Top Researchers ¨C Researcher Projects to Develop World Leading Research Communities is planned. Deadline: Open-ended.

The Horizon Europe Health Cluster has announced several single- and two-stage calls. Deadline: 16 September 2025.

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) has announced a call for innovation processes that can increase sustainability in health and care services and stimulate value creation in Norwegian trade and industry. Deadline: 24 September 2025.

Dean Hanne Harbo and Vice-Dean for Research and Research Education Grete Anita Dyb talk about this year's NorDoc Summer School for young researchers. The school is a collaboration between 20 Nordic universities. This year, they have also invited colleagues from Ukraine.

Congratulations on International Women's Day! NorDoc Summer School for young researchers is being held in Oslo for the first time. Lillehammer has been chosen as the place of study for Innlandet. Rector election 2025: Two election meetings remaining. Use your right to vote between 24th March and 4th April.

The Research Fund for Asthma and Allergy has announced funding to promote research on asthma and allergy. Deadline: 20 October 2025.

Faculty director Hanna Ekeli and dean Hanne Harbo provide an update on efforts to adjust the faculty's finances to the new economic situation. Finally, they also share a useful tip about a strong support offering for our teachers.

Adapting to a new economic reality at UiO. An extra half billion for groundbreaking research provides new FRIPRO opportunities; sign up for the webinar. Four of our researchers have received FRIPRO grants. Read about the life sciences conference in 2025. Rector election 2025: two meetings left. Use your vote between 24th March and 4th April.

From 24 March to 4 April, you can cast your vote in the rector election and help shape UiO's future. If you missed the election meeting at the Faculty of Medicine, it's not too late.

Our research advisers in the External Funding Office (EEF) are up-to-date on this spring¡¯s calls. Get in touch with them if you are planning to apply.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Jan Bjaalie provide insight into some of the strategic measures and initiatives being undertaken by the faculty this year.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Magnus L?berg are currently strongly involved in further development of the faculty's study portfolio. Here, we provide a brief update some of the essential work in progress.

Research and Innovation in 2025. Get help recruiting an MSCA at the webinar on 24 February. EU funding. Ivar Skeie awarded the King's Medal of Merit. Organisation of IT services at MED. Rector Election. Attend election meetings and exercise your right to vote!

A working group headed by Pro-Dean Jan Bj?lie has investigated the implications of a potential merger of IT services at MED with the rest of the IT department at UiO.

Do you know of a talented postdoctoral candidate that would like to move to Oslo and become part of your research group? Then you should explore the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow programme.  Deadline: 10 September 2025.  

Teachers' gathering and Campus Innlandet. Rector election. Several award announcements. Final deadline for nominating candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Anders Jahres Awards. We especially encourage nominations of our talented female researchers.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo wishes a happy new year. She shares about the welcome meeting with new students, new dialogue meetings within the units, and plans for summarizing the work the deanery has accomplished halfway through its term.

The dean of research, Jan Bjaalie, takes the security challenges associated with dual use very seriously. At the same time, he is focused on remaining calm. The goal is to find the right balance between our fundamental needs for collaboration, openness, and information sharing, and the legitimate needs to be mindful of our activities.