Are offshore petroelum workers on night shifts at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, and does exposure to the chemical benzene affect this risk? Scientists at IMB have received a grant of 2.55 million kroners from the Norwegian Health Association to carry out research on these questions.
While in the post, she oversaw major changes during the pandemic, the restructuring of the laboratory animal unit and an increase in the number of medical students: Lene Frost Andersen’s eight-year tenure as Head of IMB has been very eventful.
In January 2025, Trygve B. Leergaard takes over as the new leader of the Department of Molecular Medicine, following Philippe Collas’ election as Head of Institute. With over 30 years’ seniority at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Leergaard brings versatile experience to the role.
Hege Berg Henriksen and the workshops won best poster awards.
Collas will be responsible for a larger number of medical students and for managing ever-increasing costs. Philippe Collas is looking forward to taking on the job of Head of Institute at IMB.
This year, our Tidy-up Week at the Institute is scheduled from Monday 14th to Friday 18th October.
Please find more practical information below.
Professor Arnoldo Frigessi, leader of Integreat, was surprised and delighted when he was recently awarded the NORA Lifetime Achievement Award for his eminent academic contributions to research and for his supervision of innumerable students.
She has handled everything from the management of the collection of skeletal remains to the promotion of good teaching – Lene Frost Anderson has had quite a journey as Head of IMB.
In September, there will be an election for a new Head of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. Submit your nomination.
This year, our Tidy-up Week at the Institute is scheduled from Monday 16th to Friday 20th October.
Please find more practical information below.
The work will start on 3 July and will be finished in August next year. Noisy works are primarily done before 09:00.
See below for information about opening hours and services available at the Institute during the summer.
Are you a researcher with an innovative idea for a new product, service, solution or technology based on your research, but need funding to develop the idea further? Check the UiO call for innovation funding within all academic fields. The application deadline was 31 August. Now we are evaluating the applications.
Learn from experienced entrepreneurs, leaders and academics how to develop your own research idea into a company. Apply for admission to the fall course in entrepreneurship in healthcare. The School of Health Innovation covers all costs.
All our common storage areas located on Kant must be reorganized before we move to a new storage solution.
Around one in three people over the age of 70 are considered to be partially frail. Nutritionists are now going to investigate whether diet can prevent frailty, and to what extent.
After 150 media interviews about the immune system this past year, Anne Spurkland is publishing a new book on how food, sleep and vaccines affect the immune system. She is also awarded the University of Oslo’s Dissemination Prize.
Stine Marie Ulven took over as the new Head of the Department of Nutrition from 1st January. You can read about her ambitions for the Department here.
OCBE (Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology) provides statistical and epidemiological advising in COVID-19 projects for researchers and students of the Medical Faculty of the University of Oslo, of the Oslo University Hospital and of South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (HS?).
We are also happy to support other national and international projects.
PI Gareth Sullivan has co-authored a new publication on Synthetic Analyses of Single-Cell Transcriptomes from Multiple Brain Organoids and Fetal Brain
Stefan Krauss, Hanne Scholz, Steven Wilson and Carl Henrik G?rbitz have written an article on the centre's work on developing organ on a chip technology in Aftenposten.
Hanne Scholz is one of the editors for the upcoming Frontiers in Genetics Research issue on the topic: Beta-Cell Fate: From Gene Circuits to Disease Mechanisms.
Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority have awarded Hybrid Technology Hub members Jo Waaler and Stefan a grant of 1 000 000 NOK for theproject "Tankyrase Inhibiton in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Center members Fr?ydis Skottvoll, Simon Rayner, Gareth Sullivan, Stefan Krauss, Steven Ray Wilson and Sean Harrison have a new publication in the journal Electrophoreses, titled: 3D cell culture models and organ‐on‐a‐chip: Meet separation science and mass spectrometry
This years 'Tidy-Up Week' at the institute is set for week 42, that is from Monday 14 October to Friday 18 October.
You will find a more detailed program and practical information here.
