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MED-nytt, no 4 – 2024

Campus Innlandet. Student Survey 2024. New Jebsen Centre. Remember to complete the ARK survey! 

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Editorial: Interdisiplinary collaborationDekan Hanne Flinstad Harbo

Dean Hanne Flinstad Harbo talks about the collaboration with NTNU at Campus Innlandet.

Professor Richard Hatchett and Professor Gra?a Raposo are formally announced as our two new honorary doctors who will be conferred at UiO’s Annual Festivities on 2 September.

Read the full editorial

The management Column

Information meeting for potential MSCA supervisors

Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) provides supervisors with the opportunity to bring young, international researchers to UiO for up to two years, and to build strategic, international networks. UiO invites potential supervisors for MSCA postdoctoral fellows to an information meeting on 8 March between 09.30-12.00. The meeting will take place via Zoom. Register now!

News from MED

Major brain research initiative at UiOBildet kan inneholde: smil, erme, halsb?nd, kjole skjorte, arbeidst?y.

Our new K.G. Jebsen Centre for Brain Fluid Research will develop new tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases such as dementia and brain cancer. The new centre is led by Professor Per Kristian Eide. Read the full story on the department website in Norwegian.

Lise MoltzauStudy to test novel strategy for untreatable hypertension

Lise Moltzau and colleagues have previously identified substances that can have a positive effect on blood pressure. They have now received research funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to test the effect of one of the substances in a new study. Read more on the department website.

Studies

Student Survey 2024 - a successBildet kan inneholde: bord, smil, flaske, vannflaske, interaksjon.

Good planning and targeted efforts from the education services at the faculty and the institutes/departments had a positive effect: We received many more responses to the Student Survey in 2024 than in 2023. Something new this year was the question of AI.
Read the full story in Norwegian on the employee pages.

studenterThe Student Survey shows increased motivation

The results from the Student Survey show that the motivation to study is now back at the same level as before the pandemic for students studying health sciences and medicine. Read the full article in Norwegian on the Studies website.

Health science analysts student epidemiologi illustrasjon

Epidemiology is important for facilitating public health and planning health services for the population. The specialisation can be taken as a master’s programme in Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology at UiO.
Read the full article in Norwegian on the Studies website.

Briefings

Management meetings

Lederforum: Overview of meeting dates (in Norwegian). The next meeting is on Tuesday 19 March. 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 in Norwegian of faculty board meetings and IDF meetings in 2024 (PDF) with deadlines for submitting cases. The next faculty board meeting is on 12 March.Agendas and protocols are updated here in Norwegian.

University Board meetings in 2024. The meetings are live streamed and open to anyone who would like to attend. The next meeting will take place on 12 March. See also agendas and minutes from the first meeting of the year on 6 February.

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

About Resarch

You can also follow what is happening at the Faculty of Medicine via facebookLinkedIn and Instagram.

Lege og pasient. Illustrasjon.Medisinbloggen: : How do doctors meet the existential worries of seriously ill cancer patients? in Norwegian by Berit Hofset Larsen. How do doctors meet the existential worries of seriously ill cancer patients? by Berit Hofset Larsen

 

illustrasjon vaksineKlinmed: We can soon get a universal flu vaccine (in Norwegian). Are you tired of taking the flu vaccine every year? Ranveig Braathen and colleagues have developed a new DNA vaccine that can provide protection against many varieties of the influenza virus, including variants not included in the vaccine.

 

baby som matesMedisinbloggen: Early introduction of food prevents food allergies in Norwegian by Karin Cecilie L?drup Carlsen and H?vard Ove Skjerven. If you allow young babies to taste different types of food, they are less likely to develop food allergies. This is very good news! 

 

 

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By Silje M. Kile Rosseland
Published Feb. 29, 2024 10:47 AM - Last modified Feb. 29, 2024 1:42 PM