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MED-nytt, no 20 – 2023

Register for the faculty’s event on research and teaching in the future healthcare service. ERC grants. The King’s Medal of Merit. Research grant for serious heart disease New representative and two deputies on the faculty board.

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Dekan Hanne Flinstad Harbo

Editorial: Sign up for the Faculty event on research and education in the future healthcare system

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about what is happening at the faculty. The annual plan is ready for presentation to the Faculty Board. Congratulations to the new board representatives. A pleasure to award the King’s Medal of Merit to Johanne Sundby this week.

Mark 17 January at 15:00-17:00 in your calendar! The faculty will gather in Domus Bibliotheca: The future healthcare service: What do we do when we run out of people?

Shall we meet up when the Christmas tree lights get turned on at University Square on Sunday?

Read the full editorial.

News about MED

Victor Greiff lands prestigious ERC Consolidator grantVictor Greiff

In his project, Greiff will attempt to understand the rules of antibody-antigen binding,and how this knowledge can be used to develop effective therapeutic antibodies and vaccines.

Read more on the institute website.

New representative and two deputies on the Faculty BoardMarkus Dines Knudsen

Congratulations to Markus Dines Knudsen who won the election! He is the new, permanent representative on the Faculty Board for temporarily employed academic staff, including temporarily appointed adjunct professors, throughout 2024. Lise M?rkved Helsingen and Lene Lunde have been elected as deputy representatives.
Read all about the election on the election pages.

Research grant for serious heart diseaseBildet kan inneholde: smil, mote, sosial gruppe, samfunnet, mennesker.

Kristina Haugaa has received a research grant together with the University of Minnesota to understand more about the heart disease called Lamin A/C cardiomyopathy.

Read more on the institute website.

medaljerDo you keep track of the annual cycle for award announcements?

Did you know that the faculty has an annual cycle overview of award announcements and opportunities to nominate faculty staff? Here are the deadlines and the information you need.

Read more and subscribe to the annual cycle.

The King’s Medal of Merit awarded to Johanne SundbyJonhanne Sundby fikk tildelt medaljen fra dekanus

Johanne Sundby has been awarded the King’s Medal of Merit for her many years of diverse activities within the field of female health in Norway and abroad.

Read more on the institute website in Norwegian

Briefings

julekort fra UiO

Management meetings

Management Forum: Overview of meeting dates. The next meeting is Tuesday, 23 January. Agenda items and documents may be submitted until 12:00 on the last Thursday before the meeting. Here are the minutes from the previous meeting.

Overview of Faculty Board meetings (PDF). You can find the agenda and minutes here. The next meeting takes place on 12 December.

University Board meetings in 2023. The meetings are live-streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting takes place on 15 December.

Opportunities and deadlines

  • See all important deadlines regarding applications for research funding in Funding opportunities
    • The Centre for Research-based Innovation’s (SFI V) call for applications will be released soon! Potential applicants from MED should make their interest known at their department/institute as soon as possible. The Research Council of Norway’s deadline is expected to be in April/May 2024. Read more in Funding opportunities.

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

Research News

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

Sykehus p? Gaza

Medisinbloggen: Health work under bombardment in Norwegian by Erik Fosse. Israel’s war against Hamas is destroying all the hospitals in Gaza. I have worked in and with the hospitals there for 30 years, and have made many good friends and colleagues. They are now trying to help the injured, but find themselves in an impossible and dangerous situation.

 

S?r med kreftKlinmed: More serious skin cancer in organ transplant patients (link in Norwegian) “We have seen that organ transplant recipients have more tumors and spread of cancer than others with the same type of skin cancer. These patients need to thoroughly protect themselves from the sun and check their skin regularly,” says Petter Gjersvik.

 

Medisinbloggen: Resistance without borders – when antibiotics do not work in Norwegian by Kristian Tonby, Erik Gerhardsen Formanek and Else Liv Quist-Paulsen. The war in Ukraine is brutal. Hospitals in Norway are receiving patients evacuated from Ukraine. We were not prepared for the high incidence of infections involving multidrug-resistant bacteria.

 

 

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By Silje M. Kile Rosseland
Published Dec. 1, 2023 3:22 PM - Last modified Dec. 22, 2023 9:57 AM