Four 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 2023.
No?lle Streeton at the Faculty of Humanities and Victor Greiff at the Faculty of Medicine have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council.
This summer 48 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.
The SPARK Nordic programmes participated together for the first time at Nordic Innovation Fair in Copenhagen 25-26 September.
Are you a master's student and want to pursue a career in innovation and entrepreneurship? Now you can apply for admisson to the newly established honours certificate in Life Science Innovation. The application deadline is 15 October. Start-up will be January 2024.
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.
Computer science student Espen L?nes has gone straight from a busy spring semester to new challenges - he is one of 48 students who receive a grant from UiO:Life Sciences to contribute to a research project this summer.
SPARK Nordic visited Silicon Valley at the end of April. In total there where 19 participants from SPARK Norway and SPARK Finland. The purpose of the trip was to introduce the Nordic SPARK projects to the opportunities available in Silicon Valley and give them the opportunity to build their own networks and market understanding.
The University of Oslo annually awards five prizes for research, young researchers, education, dissemination and innovation.
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.
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.
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!
The UiO Growth House, dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science, UiO:Life Science and UiO:Energy and Environment are now co-located in Oslo Science Park. ‘Now the units can work more closely together and draw on each other's expertise as well as extract synergies from each other. This gives UiO the opportunity to develop its strategic initiatives and strengthen the innovation thinking’, says UiO's vice-rector for research and innovation Per Morten Sandset.
UiO:Life Science will fund educational summer research projects for 40 students between April and September 2023 for students currently enrolled in a bachelor, master or relevant professional degree program at UiO. We now invite you to suggest projects for one or two students. The application deadline was 1 February 2023.
UiO:Life Science will fund 40 educational summer research projects for students between April and September 2023. 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 17 January and is now closed as we have received maximum of registrants.
Five projects have completed the SPARK Norway innovation programme in 2022. During the graduation ceremony in December, the Vaccibody Innovation Award 2022 was presented.
AstraZeneca, the SPARK Norway programme at University of Oslo and Oslo Cancer Cluster enter a new mentoring collaboration for life science start-ups.
Fifty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The end of this year's summer projects was celebrated with presentations, poster exhibition and prize ceremony.
The University of Oslo, organised in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), the event "Is there hope for the Oslofjord" on 29 September. The theme arouses great interest and many people participated in Domus Bibliotheca.
In autumn 2021, six new convergence environments were granted funding for a period of four years. The interdisciplinary research groups have started up during 2022 and are well underway with the recruitment of PhDs and Postdoctoral fellows for their research projects.
Arnoldo Frigessi and Arne Klungland are granted Norwegian Centres of exellence.
Those who have passed the building site for the new life science building in Gaustadbekkdalen have probably noticed that there is full activity on the construction site at the moment. Seven high cranes tower into the air and construction machinery is in full operation. Some employees from the University of Oslo have visited the construction site.
Nathalie Frosthammer is studying at the Department for Biosciences, this summer she is one of 50 students participating in a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science.
Inven2 presented "Innovator of the Year"-prize for the first time. Ole J?rgen Kaasb?ll, head of research and one of the founders of the company Tribune Therapeutics, was awarded the prize at Innovation Day 2022.
Inven2's Idépris 2022 goes to a virtual tool for developing antibodies. The idea was developed by Victor Greiff, head of the convergence environment ImmunoLingo, together with colleagues from the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital.
