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Newsletter May 2022

The Life Science Growth House is the innovation unit for life sciences, health and technology at the University of Oslo. We help researchers and students to mature early-stage ideas.

Reminder calls funding for innovative researchers and students within life sciences, health and technology – application deadline 24 May

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 Do you have an innovative idea for a new product, solution or technology, but need help to develop it further? Check our calls!

Seed funding I up to NOK 50 000 and seed funding II up to NOK 200 000 for researchers. We will grant funding for totally up to 35 projects.

Who can apply?: researchers at the University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital and Akershus University Hospital

Read the call, and apply!

Innovative students can apply for up to NOK 10 000. We will grant funding for up to 20 projects.

Who can apply?: students at the University of Oslo

Read the call, and apply!

Also note that the central administration at the University of Oslo has calls for seed funding and innovation grant covering all fields. Application deadline: 14 June.

Sign up for innovation hangout for academia and industry 9 June

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Topic: Tomorrow's medicine – advanced therapies, cell therapy, precision medicine and nuclear medicine
Inspirational talk: Martin Haswell, General Manager, Roche Pharma Norway
Role model talk: Frans Suurs, PhD, Scientia Fellow UiO, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital and Bayer
Matchmaking between researchers and students and members of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Norway (LMI)

With this meeting place we want to inspire, give self-confidence and knowledge about innovation processes and facilitate collaboration that puts more research to use for the benefit of patients and society. 

See the programme, and sign up!

Registration deadline: 7 June

Read more about the intention with the innovation hangout in the rector’s blog that vice-rector for research and innovation, Per Morten Sandset, and director of the Growth House, Hilde Nebb, wrote before the first hangout.

Save the dates!

8 September: innovation hangout #3 for academia and industry in collaboration with The Life Science Cluster, Oslo Science Park
18 August: event in collaboration with LMI, Innovation Norway and Oslo Science City, Arendal

Apply for a place at the hackathon on environmental challenges and get-together with Stanford University Knight-Hennessy Scholars?19–20 June

Students at Stanford

Are you a master or PhD student at the University of Oslo with an engagement for solving environmental challenges? Do you want to connect with international fellow students to expand your network? Then you should not miss out on this unique opportunity. Only 30 places.

Read more about the events, and apply for a place!

Application deadline: 31 May

Inspiring international week in the Life Science Growth House

In Norway, we often look to other countries when we talk about innovation and business in the field of life sciences. We still have a lot to learn from other countries, but a lot of good things is happening in the innovation ecosystem for life sciences in Oslo that we can be proud of, and that others are curious about and want to learn from. At the turn of the month April/May top students from ETH Zürich and research advisers from all over Europe visited to learn more about the innovation ecosystem in the vibrant Oslo Science Park and at the same time giving us inspiration to our own work in the time to come.

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