Science Impact 2023 – tomorrow's solutions start today?

Spend a day with great science, innovation and networking opportunities at this meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry.? The innovation conference had sessions on life sciences and energy & environment and was a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2023. The next conference is held 25 September 2024 as part of Oslo Innovation Week 2024.

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Future challenges within health and environment require innovative solutions with digital tools as an integral part. We zoom in on the human brain, heart and body and dive into energy production and storage to give you cutting-edge research and development from the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital, SINTEF, start-ups from the innovation ecosystem in Oslo and companies. ?
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How do we develop solutions to secure a sustainable health system that will have fewer resources in the future? How can we maintain a healthier population to start with? How do we develop solutions for a sustainable power system? How can technology contribute to new solutions within health and environment?? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

The conference in pictures

1 min. 51 sec. with music.

 

Programme

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Breakfast and registration from 7.30

08:00–10:00 Impact Breakfast

Planetary health

Place: Forum auditorium

Planetary health addresses interconnections between the health of humans, animals and the planet. What are the consequences of environmental change on human health, including mental health? How can collaboration across disciplines and sectors help us raise awareness of the consequences and to develop new innovative sustainable solutions within human health and environment? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

Speakers planetary health

Welcome to Science Impact 2023

Per Morten Sandset, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, the University of Oslo

Short talks

  • What we know and don’t know about the interconnections between human health and environmental changes
    Dag O. Hessen, professor, UiO, Center for biogeochemistry in Anthropocene
  • Health & climate and the role of technology
    Hilde F?revik, Senior Business Developer, Head of the Gemini Centre Health and Climate, SINTEF
  • Microcosmic connections: Unraveling the global health burdens through the human microbiome
    Trine B. Rounge, professor, UiO, Centre for Bioinformatics
  • How climate change is affecting the healthy psychological development of children
    Francis Vergunst, associate professor, UiO, Dept. of Special Needs Education

Pitches

  • Analysis of the microbiome a gamechanger for global health
    Bruno Mainnemard ?ijordsbakken, business area manager, South Europe and Latin America, Genetic Analysis AS 
  • The next generation sustainable foods and animal feed
    David Quist, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, NoMy
  • Sustainable use of resources in production of high quality food
    Mari ?vrum Gaarder, researcher, Nofima

Panel debate

with Dag O. Hessen, professor, UiO, Center for biogeochemistry in Anthropocene; ?got Aakra, research director, SINTEF Industry; and Hilde Holdhus, partner technology, energy and sustainability, Sarsia.

Chair: Jens Petter Berg, professor, UiO, interim leader, Centre for Pandemics and One-Health Research

Networking

10:30–12:30 Parallel sessions on life sciences and energy & environment

Life sciences I: How to keep the brain healthy?

Place: Forum auditorium

We zoom in on the human brain to learn more about how it works, how we can keep it healthy and how researchers and start-ups are working on new diagnostics and treatments against dementia and other diseases in the brain and shed light on gender differences. How can technology contribute to new solutions? How do we put research to use and implement new solutions like those presented in the talks? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

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Short talks

  • What makes a healthy brain?
    Marianne Fyhn, professor, UiO, Dept. of Biosciences
  • Drug development targeting on ageing and dementia
    Evandro Fei Fang, associate professor, UiO, Inst. of Clinical Medicine and Akershus University Hospital
  • Sex and the suffering brain: Why the study of sex differences matters for health equity
    Claudia Barth, senior researcher Diakonhjemmet Hospital and UiO, Inst. of Clinical Medicine
  • Towards digital and personalized medicine in neuroscience
    Katja Stahl, senior medical manager, Biogen

Pitches

  • Targeting cancers with high unmet needs – including glioblastoma
    Adam Robertson, CSO, Hemispherian
  • BrainSymph – making brain network diagnostics easy, precise and personalised
    Lillian Fjeld, CEO, BrainSymph
  • Making brain data FAIR
    Jan G. Bjaalie, professor, UiO, Inst. of Basic Medical Sciences, and Dean of Research and Innovation, UiO, Faculty of Medicine

Panel debate

Chair: Halvard Gr?nlien, Vice President Innovation, Inven2

Networking

Energy & environment I: Sustainable energy production: Wind and solar

Place: Toppsenteret

In the energy transition there is huge need increase the production of renewable energy. What does it take to to quickly increase the production capacity within wind and solar in particular and what does it mean to do it in a sustainable way?
What role does technology play, and how do we put research to use and implement new solutions like those presented in the talks? What are the possibilities and challenges? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

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Short talks

  • Research to accelerate the development of offshore wind
    John Olav Tande, chief scientist, SINTEF, FME NorthWind
  • The role of local renewable energy production
    Karina Standal, senior researcher, CICERO
  • Using combinatorial materials science to design and tailor new solar energy materials
    Kevin Gregor Both, postdoctoral fellow, UiO, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Physics
  • How to deal with the uncertainty in time and space of renewables in energy systems
    Fred Espen Benth, professor, UiO, Dept. of Mathematics

Pitches

  • How to identify and analyze the best solar sites faster?
    Harald Olderheim, CEO, Glint Solar
  • The role of historical weather data and how that can be used for a more resilient energy transition
    Aleksander Grochowicz, doctoral research fellow, UiO, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Sustainability efforts in AtLAST – the Atacama Large Aperture Submm Telescope
    Sabrina Sartori, professor, UiO, Dept. of Technology Systems
  • Renewable energy production
    Jan-Fredrik Stadaas, Corporate Strategy Manager, Equinor

Panel debate

Chair: Vebj?rn Bakken, director, UiO:Energy and Environment

Networking

12:30–13:30 LUNCH

Place: Forum auditorium and Toppsenteret

13:30–15:30 Parallel sessions on life sciences and energy & environment

Life sciences II: How to keep the heart healthy?

Place: Forum auditorium

We zoom in on the human heart to learn more about how it works, how we can keep it healthy and how researchers, start-ups and companies are working on new diagnostic tools and treatment against heart disease and shed light on gender differences. How can technology contribute to new solutions? How do we put research to use and implement new solutions like those presented in the talks? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

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Short talks

  • ProCardio – a precision health center for optimized cardiac care – how to improve by use of technology
    Kristina Haugaa, professor, OUS, UiO Inst. of Clinical Medicine, SFI ProCardio
  • Equip and empower citizens to active use of more personalised health information
    Anne Moen, professor, UiO, Inst. of Health and Society
  • Development of new drugs for fibrosis and heart failure
    Maria Vistnes, Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Translational Researcher, UiO Inst. of Clinical Medicine and OUS
  • Cardiac biomarkers for risk evaluation and patient triaging, how does a global biotech company think?
    Thorbj?rn Lund Halvorsen, Director of Medical Affairs & Healthcare Development, Roche Diagnostics Norge AS

Pitches

  • Hypersension – a cutting edge technology to measure blood pressure
    Jon Sigurd Syvertsen, CCO, Aidee
  • Changing outcomes in heart attack treatment
    Inger Ferner Heglund, COO, Serca Pharmaceuticals
  • Benefits of real-time, heart function monitoring in cardiac surgical patients
    Jonas Tyss?, COO, Cardiaccs
  • Personalised cardiac care
    Eigil Samset, General Manager, GE Healthcare

Panel debate

Chair: Frode Strisland, SINTEF and UiO

Networking

Energy & environment II: Efficient energy storage: Battery and hydrogen

Place: Toppsenteret

In the energy transition there is huge need for more efficient storage of energy. What does it take to scale up more efficient energy storage systems within hydrogen and battery and hydrogen in particular? What role does technology play, and how do we put research to use and implement new solutions like those presented in the talks? What are the possibilities and challenges? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

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Short talks

  • Cenate’s nano silicon materials – your key to a smaller, cleaner and lighter lithium battery
    Carmen Cavallo, R&D senior research scientist, CENATE
  • Green hydrogen production and utilization
    Athanasios Chatzitakis (Sakis), UiO, Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Chemistry, FME MoZees
  • Sustainable batteries in mobility
    Marianne Zeyringer, Associate Professor, UiO, Dept. of Technology Systems, EMPOWER
  • Scalable ceramic membranes for hydrogen production
    Christian Kj?lseth, PhD, Technology Director, Coorstek

Pitches

  • Utilizing MOFs for energy applications
    Unni Olsbye, ProfMOF and UiO, Dept. of Chemistry
  • Underground hydrogen storage
    Bahman Bohloli, senior specialist, The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)
  • Batteries - the key enabler of the energy transition
    Tom Einar Jensen, CEO, FREYR

Panel debate

Chair: Vebj?rn Bakken, UiO:Energy and Environment

Networking

15:30–16:30 AFTERNOON BITE

Place: Forum auditorium and Toppsenteret

16:30–18:30 Life sciences III

Cutting edge technologies to study the human body

Place: Forum auditorium

Organ-on-a-chip is an emerging technology that can be used to better understand the human body and develop new diagnostics and treatments and more personalized medicine. Use of the technology can also reduce the need for animal testing. Meet researchers, start-ups and companies that are working on organ-on-chip and other technologies to develop better diagnostic tools and treatment for different diseases. How do we put research to use and implement new solutions like those presented in the talks? How should academia and industry collaborate to increase the impact of science?

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Short talks

  • Revolving Organ-on-Chip (rOoC) platform: A new tool for in vitro testing & disease modeling
    Aleksandra Aizenshtadt, postdoctoral research fellow, UiO/OUS, Hybrid Technology Hub
  • Pancreas on a chip technology to study diabetes interventions
    Shadab Abadpour, postdoctoral research fellow, OUS, Hybrid Technology Hub
  • Novel insights on development and disease with mass spectrometric analysis of organoids
    Stian Kogler, doctoral research fellow, UiO, Dept. of Chemistry, Hybrid Technology Hub
  • Insight into human respiration through the study of orchestras and audiences
    Finn Upham, postdoctoral fellow, UiO, HF, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

Pitches

  • Bioengineered implants that grow with the body
    Armend H?ti, CEO, ClexBio
  • Developing biomarkers for the early detection of age related diseases
    Arne S?raas, CSO, Age Labs
  • Addressing fibrotic disease by targeting an upstream alarm signal
    Jonas Hallén, CMDO, Arxx Therapeutics
  • Unleashing the potential of hard-to-deliver drugs
    Annbj?rg Falck, CEO, NaDeNo

Panel debate

Chair: Hanne Mette Dyrlie Kristensen, The Life Science Cluster

18:30–20:00 EVENING GATHERING

Place: Forum auditorium

Food and beverage and mingling

Organisers

  • Main organiser: UiO Growth House
  • External partners: Inven2, Oslo Science Park, SINTEF, LMI, Oslo University Hospital (OUS) and The Life Science Cluster
  • Internal partners at the University of Oslo (UiO): UiO:Energy and Environment, dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science, Centre for Global Health at SUSTAINIT, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Department of Biosciences, and the Faculty of Educational Sciences

Questions?

Please contact the UiO Growth House communications adviser Norunn K. Torheim at norunnt@uio.no

Published Mar. 28, 2023 11:52 AM - Last modified Jan. 9, 2024 11:00 AM