From 11 to 12 February, the Norway Life Science 2025 will take place, with health data and artificial intelligence as the main themes. This year's conference promises to challenge and find solutions for the future, featuring a programme filled with leading experts.
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 2025!
Norway Life Science 2025 brings together the country's leading players in health, life sciences, and artificial intelligence to find solutions that ensure Norway reaps greater benefits from its significant investments in health research.
Six new projects have completed UiO:Life Science's innovation programme in health-related life science, SPARK Norway. One of them won the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2024.
UiO:Life Science funds convergence environments - interdisciplinary research groups that work on major societal challenges within life science related to health, environment, and sustainability.
This summer 50 students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science. The closure of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
Giacomo Roman, project leader for the SPARK Norway project ?Autologous cell-based therapy for coagulation factor deficiency? won the poster award at NLS Days 2024 in Malm?.
UiO:Life Science is looking forward to a new operational period and a new strategy adopted for 2025-2029. In this context, our support schemes have been updated. Some have also had their grant amounts increased. Completely new is a one-time call for stimulation funds for FRIPRO applications that we are launching now.
What is good public health and "a good life"? What are the challenges to public health? What solutions can have a positive effect on public health?
Most of the Department of Biosciences at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and parts of the Institute of Oral Biology at the Faculty of Dentistry will move into the new life science building.
Do you have an idea in life sciences that can solve challenges related to human or animal health? Apply for admission to UiO:Life Science' innovation programme SPARK Norway to further develop your idea into new technology, treatment, or solution.
18 and 19 September Nordic Life Science Days will take place in Malm?, Sweden. From UiO:Life Science, SPARK Norway will be participating with an unprecedented number of innovation projects and alumni.
The bioscience students Maren Mansika and Marie Kristine Kvendseth Rimstad are well underway with their summer project. They are among 50 students who have been awarded a scholarship by UiO:Life Science to conduct research on a real research project this summer.
The University of Oslo's board has decided to continue the UiO:Life Science initiative for a new five-year period. This will be the third period for the temporary initiative that was established in 2015.
In 2019, eight convergence environments were established. They were selected after a thorough application process and were to solve major societal challenges in health and the environment. On Thursday 30 May, UiO:Life Science invited to a gathering where representatives from the interdisciplinary research groups shared their experiences and results. Vice-rector Per Morten Sandset opened the event.
Are you curious about interdisciplinary research collaboration? Do you want to learn more about interdisciplinary research leadership in practice? Join us for a pleasant gathering in honour of our second generation convergence environments on Thursday, 30 May in the Sophus Lie Auditorium.
UiO has several different support schemes for innovative researchers. In 2024, a total of about NOK 16 million will be announced from internal funds. The UiO Growth House has made an overview all UiO's innovation calls and application deadlines to make the application processes more predictable for researchers.
Marianne Hiorth, Professor at The Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo and recently graduated participant of UiO:Life Science’ innovation programme SPARK Norway, has reached an important milestone: The product she has developed, as a result of many years of research, has reached the phase where it shall be tested on humans for the first time.
This year, six start-ups and innovation projects participated in the pitching contest taking place at the Norway Life Science Conference.
UiO:Life Science will fund 50 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2024. Students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The application form opened 15 February and has now been closed.
Six new teams have been admitted to UiO?s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.
Norway Life Science 2024: Unlocking the Potential of Health Data kicks off 13 -14 February. Carl Henrik G?rbitz, Director UiO:Life Science, promises an exciting programme with the leading experts in health data from home and abroad. Minister of Trade and Industry, Jan Christian Vestre will also participate.
The Nordic SPARK programmes attended NLS Days in Copenhagen. This year there were 30 projects and alumni from Denmark, Finland and Norway participating.
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 2024!
Norway Life Science 2024 gathers leading actors in health and life science, to find the solutions that will allow Norway to get more in return from the large investments in health research.
