Current matters

Faculty Director Hanna Ekeli encourages staff and students at MED to use their voting rights in the rector election.

Rector election 2025: Use your right to vote between 24 March and 4 April

The university allows staff to take time off during work hours to donate blood, which can be recorded as short-term leave.

Dean Hanne Harbo and Vice-Dean for Research and Research Education Grete Anita Dyb talk about this year's NorDoc Summer School for young researchers. The school is a collaboration between 20 Nordic universities. This year, they have also invited colleagues from Ukraine.

Congratulations on International Women's Day! NorDoc Summer School for young researchers is being held in Oslo for the first time. Lillehammer has been chosen as the place of study for Innlandet. Rector election 2025: Two election meetings remaining. Use your right to vote between 24th March and 4th April.

Faculty director Hanna Ekeli and dean Hanne Harbo provide an update on efforts to adjust the faculty's finances to the new economic situation. Finally, they also share a useful tip about a strong support offering for our teachers.

Adapting to a new economic reality at UiO. An extra half billion for groundbreaking research provides new FRIPRO opportunities; sign up for the webinar. Four of our researchers have received FRIPRO grants. Read about the life sciences conference in 2025. Rector election 2025: two meetings left. Use your vote between 24th March and 4th April.

From 24 March to 4 April, you can cast your vote in the rector election and help shape UiO's future. If you missed the election meeting at the Faculty of Medicine, it's not too late.

Our research advisers in the External Funding Office (EEF) are up-to-date on this spring¡¯s calls. Get in touch with them if you are planning to apply.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Jan Bjaalie provide insight into some of the strategic measures and initiatives being undertaken by the faculty this year.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo and Pro-Dean Magnus L?berg are currently strongly involved in further development of the faculty's study portfolio. Here, we provide a brief update some of the essential work in progress.

Research and Innovation in 2025. Get help recruiting an MSCA at the webinar on 24 February. EU funding. Ivar Skeie awarded the King's Medal of Merit. Organisation of IT services at MED. Rector Election. Attend election meetings and exercise your right to vote!

A working group headed by Pro-Dean Jan Bj?lie has investigated the implications of a potential merger of IT services at MED with the rest of the IT department at UiO.

Teachers' gathering and Campus Innlandet. Rector election. Several award announcements. Final deadline for nominating candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and the Anders Jahres Awards. We especially encourage nominations of our talented female researchers.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo wishes a happy new year. She shares about the welcome meeting with new students, new dialogue meetings within the units, and plans for summarizing the work the deanery has accomplished halfway through its term.

The dean of research, Jan Bjaalie, takes the security challenges associated with dual use very seriously. At the same time, he is focused on remaining calm. The goal is to find the right balance between our fundamental needs for collaboration, openness, and information sharing, and the legitimate needs to be mindful of our activities.

Happy New Year! Be sure to take note of important deadlines and information for planning a successful new semester. Several new awards and honours. Registration for the spring courses in the postdoctoral programme. Nominations for the Jahre Prize and the Nobel Prize. The university's five awards. Election meetings. Scientia Fellows programme.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo, with the rest of the faculty leadership, summarises 2024. Don't miss this opportunity to gain an overview of the key issues from 2024. Additionally, they offer their gratitude for the past year and wish all staff and students a very merry Christmas!

Christmas greeting with a summary of the most important matters as of December 2024 from the management. The professional programme in Medicine will transition to a pass/fail exam system. Detailed rules for the Ph.D. programme are up for internal consultation. The new faculty director introduces herself. Teaching award. Innovation funds to SFF CRESCO. ERC Consolidator grant to Hov. Aasb? receives 15 million kroner from the Research Council of Norway's sustainability call. Practical information for UiO employees.

Our new Faculty Director introduces herself and shares some of her impressions and thoughts from her first time at MED. She also provides information on ongoing developments within the administration at UiO.

Vice-Dean Grete Dyb provides an update on the internal hearing regarding the new supplementary regulations for the Ph.D. programme. The hearing will be sent out next week, with the deadline for feedback being 1th February,

Dean of Studies Magnus L?berg discusses the decision made at the Faculty Board meeting on 10th December: All exams in the medical degree programme will be assessed with pass/fail from autumn 2025.

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo reflects on the final stretch of the semester, this year in the faculty leadership, and wishes everyone a joyous Advent season. 

UiO's new joint department for comparative medicine. 12 million NOK from FRIPRO for Alzheimer¡¯s research. Innovation funds awarded to six groups at the Faculty of Medicine. New representative on the faculty board. Join us for the Advent concert and Christmas tree lighting.

Our first Learning environment survey aims to take the pulse of student life at MED. It will inform us about the quality of the learning environment and is an important part of our efforts to improve the daily study experience at MED.