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MED-nytt, no 14 – 2023

The opening of Campus South. New student places to study medicine. ERC awarded to Boccara. New guidelines for lab journals and the possibility of getting electronic lab journals.

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Dekan Hanne Flinstad Harbo

Editorial: Successful opening of our UiO Campus South

Congratulations on UiO Campus South, new student places to study medicine, awards and grants, - and participate in this autumn’s events! 

Read the full editorial

 

 

 

The management Column

Elektronisk labjournal og nye retningslinjerBildet kan inneholde: panne, briller, ?yenbryn, halsb?nd, erme.

Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation Jan Bj?lie encourages everyone conducting research in labs to use the new electronic lab journal that is now offered at UiO. Read more here: Electronic lab journal. Also check out the faculty’s new guidelines for the use of research lab journals, adopted by the dean in the Management Forum on 5 September.

UiO is arranging a course in the new standard for research integrity at UiO. Register by contacting Senior Adviser Katrine Ore.

Current MED news

Charlotte BoccaraERC Starting Grant to Charlotte Boccara

Charlotte Boccara is awarded 1.5 million euros for the project SleepCog. The aim is to determine how important sleep is for the healthy development of the brain. Read more at the NCMM webpages.

Johanna Olweus part of research team shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges funding

Professor Johanna Olweus has been selected for the final of the Cancer Grand Challenges as part of a global research team. If successful, the team hopes to contribute in giving cancer patients new therapies.Read the full story on the Klinmed webpage.

Studies

New student places to study medicine in Southern Norway

The Government is increasing the number of student places for decentralised medical education at UiO Campus South by 20. Read the full article on our programme of study website in Norwegian.

UiO opens its first external campus at the Hospital of Southern Norway

studenter p? Campus s?r“The Hospital of Southern Norway, the municipalities in the region and the university have all used a lot of resources to establish this, and the result is a very good offer for students and a boost for the region”, says Pro-Dean of Studies Magnus L?berg. Read about the official opening that took place on 24 August in Norwegian. 
Briefings

Briefings

Management meetings

Managementforum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is on 3 October. Cases can be reported and case papers submitted up until 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Minutes from the previous meeting on 5 September will be published here.

Overview of the Faculty Board meetings. You can find the agenda and minutes here.The next meeting is on 7 September. The deadline for submitting items for the agenda was 31 August.

University Board meetings in 2023. These meetings are live streamed and are open to anyone who would like to watch. The next meeting and seminar is on 17 October.

Opportunities and deadlines

Courses and events

See the University of Oslo’s course calendar for an overview of all available courses. See also updated overviews of courses from UiO:IT and the Medical and Science Library
Updated overview: Upcoming public defences.

Research News

You can also follow what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine via facebook, twitter, Linkedin and Instagram.

familieMedisinbloggen: Brain development in children – the youngest children need adults to be emotionally present In Norwegian by Anne Margrethe Myhre and Cecilie Klem Funderud. As newborns, humans are physically helpless compared to other mammals. Fortunately, our brains are able to compensate for this.

 

operasjonApollon: Preparing the ground for artificial organs.There is currently a great shortage of organs for organ transplants. In the future, organs can hopefully be grown in laboratories. Researchers are now hard at work.  “We are talking about 20 to 30 years from now. We are now laying the first foundations to make this happen”, says Stefan Krauss.

 

Illustrasjon psykisk helse

Klinmed: Patients receiving opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) are getting older, sicker and more lonely. (link in Norwegian). OMT patients are aging faster than the rest of the population. It causes both the accumulation of serious illnesses and mental health problems.

 

 

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By Silje M. Kile Rosseland
Published Sep. 7, 2023 10:12 AM - Last modified Dec. 16, 2023 11:40 AM