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MNSc Helene Berntzen at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°Patient experiences and nurses¡¯ management of pain and discomfort in intensive care during a strategy of analgosedation - an exploratory study¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc Linn Nathalie St?me at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°Early Health Technology Assessment of E-health¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Surya Prakash Rai at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Assessment and modulation of spatial memory in APPPS1-21 mouse model using Morris water maze¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Marta Brunetti at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°High-grade serous carcinoma and related tumors: molecular analysis of potential targets¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Nino Lomia at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Mortality in Women of Reproductive Age in Georgia: Leading Causes and Socio-demographic Determinants¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Do you want to join the application process in 2020/2021 for funding of new interdisciplinary research groups in life sciences? Then you should sign up for one of UiO:Life Science' meetings.

MD Christian Qvigstad at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Age-related health and comorbidities in haemophilia for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

The Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (NHRF) have the pleasure of inviting key institutions and individuals to strategize on how to advance the agenda on the Right to Defend Rights and support to human rights defenders in the frontline.

¡°The good, the bad and the ugly¡±. Why would we need a Centre for Healthy Ageing at the University of Oslo (UiO) and why should it be an inter-disciplinary approach? The 4th NO-Age meeting has compiled a high caliber inter-disciplinary speakers to share and discuss their expertise on such topics.

MSc Vibeke Bratseth at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Pro-thrombotic activity and circulating microvesicles in diabetes, with and without CAD. Special emphasis on the influence of exercise training and longitudinal development¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Prof. Tone Kvernbekk is visiting the Science Colloquium Series. Kvernbekk is Deputy Head and Head of Studies at UiO's Department of Education. Her professional interests are primarily within philosophy of science, philosophy of education, argumentation and narrative theory, or some combination of them, as exemplified in this talk.

MD Daniel Semakula at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis ¡°Improving critical thinking about treatment claims, evidence and choices. Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects and make informed health choices¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Jon Olav Gjengst? Hunderi at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Acute infant bronchiolitis; management and prognosis¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Tharvesh Moideen Liyakat Ali at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis ¡°Three-dimensional topology of the genome: A computational modeling perspective¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Marianne Ruud at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Regulation of cardiomyocyte structure and function by workload for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

MD Anub Mathew Thomas at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis ¡°Complement in Sterile Inflammation and Methodological Challenges¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Anton Baysa at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis ¡°The role of p66ShcA and TLR9 signaling in myocardial remodeling and innate immune responses¡± for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Kjersti Johnsrud at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis 18F-FDG PET imaging of atherosclerotic carotid stenosis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

SPARK Norway Educational Forum are meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.

What are the most important transnational political determinants of health inequity as we enter the final decade of the SDG era, and how can we best address them?

Torma is a Research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), working on the history of marine biology. Her research interests include the history of science, and the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth century.  She has published on the history of mountaineering, animal protection issues in Africa, on Germany and the oceans, and on the broader field of colonialism. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed  8^th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference¡¯s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.

MSc Kuan Yang at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Metabolic Regulation of TLR4 and NLRP3 Activities for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Nathaniel Comfort is Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively about the history of human genetics and the relationships between attempts to understand human heredity and to ¡°improve¡± humans. His online lecture will be followed by an online panel session. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed 8^th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference¡¯s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.