UiO arranged a half-day gathering on 26 November for employees from Oslo University Hospital and UIO.
Download the presentations
- Historien frem til i dag, Carl Henrik G?rbitz (pdf)
- Organisering av virksomheten i bygget, Per Morten Sandset (pdf)
- Hva skjer n?? Planer for v?ren 2025 og flytteprosessen, Gunnar Dick (pdf)
- Konvergens i bygget – UiO:Livsvitenskaps utlysning av konvergensmilj?, Carl Henrik G?rbitz (pdf)
- Veksthuset for verdiskaping – ? ta kunnskapen i bruk, Hilde Nebb (pdf)
- Hvordan blir bygget n?r det er ferdig?, Statsbygg (pdf)
- Vitenskapelige kjernefasiliteter i bygget – muligheter og samhandling, Melinka Butenko og Lars Eide (pdf)
Fantastic opportunity
Clinic manager for the Clinic for Laboratory Medicine, Andreas Matussek, spoke of the new building as a fantastic opportunity to gather the different departments at his clinic and at the same time interact with the university.
In the original plans, the Clinic for Laboratory Medicine was to get a new lab in 2035.
"The Life Science Building is a fantastic opportunity for us to bring together parts of our business earlier than outlined, and a unique opportunity to combine diagnostics and research - in an interaction with the university," said Matussek.
The day was dedicated to the future scenario, not only in research, but also in education. Matussek spoke about outstanding research and what expertise the clinic will need in the future.
"We must focus even more on outstanding research to develop new diagnostics and treatment, for example within AMR; antimicrobial resistance. In addition, we see a growing need to recruit bioinformaticians to be able to handle future challenges, including handling large-scale data. We are facing a very exciting time and The Life Science Building will create new interdisciplinary opportunities between Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo," said Andreas Matussek.
The life science building will be central to what is both an organization and a geographical area: Oslo Science City.
"Our biobank is going to be attractive. We will contain and manage very good health and laboratory data. We must capitalize on that," said Matussek.
The ambitions for life science
It was the rector at UiO Svein St?len who opened the day and spoke about the ambitions for life science.
"Some predict tougher times for research. I disagree. We are going to get a more powerful research. We cannot expect an increase in government funding, but The Life Science Building will attract external funding," said Svein St?len.
Director UiO:Life Science, Carl Henrik G?rbitz, drew some historical lines before talking about convergence, i.e. the great potential of bringing together and collaborating between different disciplines.
In the subsequent panel debate, it was clarified that the current institutes will remain. They shall not merge.
Vice-rector Per Morten Sandset spoke about the actual business that will be in the building.
OUS will move at the beginning of 2027
Gunnar Dick talked about the plans for spring 2025 and the moving process: March-June 2026 we will move into the middle of the building, fields 4-6. June-September 2026 we will move into the east, field 7-8. Finally, we move into OUS's premises in the west, fields 1-3. It will take place tentatively between January and March 2027.
Then there was a presentation from each of the faculties and OUS:
- Dean Solveig Kristensen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Dean Hanne-Cathrin Flinstad Harbo, Faculty of Medicine
- Incoming dean Hans Jacob R?nold, Faculty of Dentistry
- Clinic manager Andreas Matussek, Oslo University Hospital
Director Hilde Nebb spoke about how we can create value by using knowledge. Per Roar Nordby, Sven Wertebach and Anders Kalstad, all from Statsbygg described the building as it will be.
Head of the Academic Council for Core Facilities at UiO Melinka Butenko and Lars Eide, Oslo University Hospital showed the locations of the core facilities on the map and talked about the possibilities for collaboration.
Lars Eide, the heads of department and the dean of research were on the final panel and had a lot to say about the academic opportunities and ambitions.