Newsletter UiO:Life Science October 2019

Innovation: Life science researchers from UiO are looking for investors in San Francisco (in Norwegian)

Next week Gunnveig Gr?deland and Jonas Skogestad from UiO:Life Science's Innovation programme SPARK Norway will attend the BIO Investor Forum in San Francisco. Their goal is to get investors in place to further develop a flu vaccine and a cure for heart rhythm disorders, respectively ¨C the projects are of potentially great value to patients and society.

Are you a researcher at UiO, OUS or Ahus and want to further develop your idea in health-related life sciences? Send your application to our innovation programme SPARK Norway by 14 November

Education

Summer project for life science students: Poster prizes and inspirational talks (in Norwegian)

Forty students have gained work experience from a research project with a scholarship from UiO:Life Science this summer. The summer projects will give students practical experience with real research that addresses a societal challenge within health or the environment. The very popular initiative was duly celebrated on 14 October.

Biomakerspace: Innovation grant to students who make solar cells from bacteria (in Norwegian)

Students from UiO who will take part in the international competition in synthetic biology (iGEM) have received support from UiO:Life Sciences through the newly established biomakerspace grant. With this, the pilot phase of the biomakerspace is underway. The student accelerator Insj UiO and the pharmaceutical company Bayer will contribute with educational programmes for the students.

Events

24 October: Cutting Edge Festival 2019

One of Norway's largest technology and science festivals. This year's theme is Alt. Future with emphasis on sustainable health, new energy tech ¨C  better world, ocean of ??opportunities and man & machine a love story.
Organizers: Inven2, Oslo Tech, Conventor and the University of Oslo.

• Are you a researcher or industry employee and want to expand your network? Then you can also participate in UiO's innovation company Inven2's matchmaking at the festival.

6 November: SPARK Norway Educational Forum on early phase production

Procedures that work in the lab don¡¯t always scale-up seamlessly into production in the life science industry. What should be considered when you work in lab-scale to make the transition to production smoother? 

Remember to save 10–13 February 2020 for The Oslo Life Science Conference 5-year anniversary! The overview of events will be published in the newsletter in November.

Calls UiO:Life Science

• Health related life sciences and innovation: SPARK Norway ¨C deadline 14 November

  The annual call for UiO:Life Science's innovation programme SPARK Norway is a great opportunity for researchers at UiO, OUS or Ahus to develop innovative ideas further into new technology, treatments or services. We will provide you with experienced mentors and funding.

• Event support ¨C deadline 1 December 

• Internationalization support ¨C deadline 1 December

• Open life science call for researchers at all units at UiO ¨C no deadline 

Events with support from UiO:Life Science

• 22  October: Life Science Writing Club
  • See more meetings this fall
• 22¨C25 October: NorMIC Workshop on Microscopy Image Processing
• 24 October: Hjernehelsekonferansen 2019

• 31 October: Sven Furberg Seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics: Dr. Tero Aittokallio

  • See more seminars this fall

• 31 October¨C1 November: Chemistry 2019: On Odd Hassel?s shoulders
• 8 November: BIO-konferansen 2019: Livets opprinnelse og hva er egentlig liv?
• 18 November: TTA4 ¨C 4th Turning the Tide of Antimicrobial Resistance Conference
• 19 November: The 6th National Microbiota Conference

News from the convergence environments

In March UiO:Life Science announced the funding of eight new interdisciplinary research groups ¨C convergence environments ¨C that will solve major societal challenges. They received 29 PhD and postdoctoral positions.

• Winner of the Jahre prize: Want to beat schizophrenia on the finish line (in Norwegian)
  Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are highly inherited diseases. But is it possible to predict who will get them? This is one of the goals of Associate Professor Lars Tjelta Westlye at the Department of Psychology, who now receives the Anders Jahre's Award for Young Scientists. He is one of the principal investigators in the convergence environment MultiModal Mental Models: converging approaches from genomes to mental illness and interplay with psychosocial stressors (4MENT)

• Debate: New liver can give hope to cancer patients (in Norwegian)
  Patients who have had widespread cancer spread to the liver from colon cancer can get a new life with the help of organs that are currently unused. One of the authors of this article in Aftenposten, S?ren E. Pischke at UiO and Oslo University Hospital, is one of the principal investigators in the convergence environment Availability and function of donor organs: Debating the dead donor rule (3DR).

• Follow the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS) on Facebook
  UiO:Life Science collaborates with the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS) ¨C a research and education initiative at the Faculty of Humanities at UiO. The centre is an interdisciplinary meeting place for the interaction between the humanities and the sciences. Researchers at the centre are involved in the convergence environments Programmable Cell-Like Compartments and ConsciousBrainConcepts.

Vacancies

• Availability and function of donor organs: Debating the dead donor rule (3DR) wants to increase availability and function of donor organs for transplantation and to create societal awareness and debate on ethical issues using Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD).
  Read more.
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
    Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: 20 October 2019
  • PhD Research Fellowship in Immunology/Anaesthesiology
    Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: 25 October 2019
• Protons contra cancer (PROCCA) wants to create an excellent platform for collaborative efforts in proton therapy in Oslo and among other issues study how biological short term and long term side effects of radiation therapy can be reduced. 
  Read more.
  • Doctoral Research Fellow (PROCCA)
    The Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
    Deadline: 17 November 2019
• Medical, legal and lay understandings of physical evidence in rape cases (Evidently Rape) wants to study how physical evidence matters and can matter in how the crime of rape is met by medical and criminal justice institutions.
  Read more.
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Evidently Rape
    The Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine
    Deadline: 31 October 2019
  • Postdoctoral research fellowship on the project Evidently Rape
    Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, The Faculty of Law
    Deadline: 31 October 2019
• Rediscovery of medicinal plant usage in the ¡°Age of Exploration¡±: From cultural historical heritage to innovative pharmaceuticals (REA:Life) wants to unveil the processes that have shaped the social and cultural development of medicine and identify bioactive compounds in historical medicinal plants with cutting edge methods.
  Read more.
  • PhD Research Fellow in Pharmacognosy
    School of Pharmacy, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
    Deadline: 29 October 2019

The Life Science Building: NOK 830 million on the national budget for 2020 (in Norwegian)

In the draft national budget for 2020 presented by the government on 7 October, we find NOK 830 million in funding for the life science building at UiO. There is full activity on the building site, and UiO is making plans to use the building in a good way.

• Remember that you might follow the construction through pictures that are taken by webcam regularly.

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