Monthly Archives: December 2016

Merry Christmas

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Christmas is coming and it is time for a brief review of 2016. For K2 this year has been marked by ups and downs. The undoubtedly greatest downturn was Helga’s death in January. It affected all of us and shows that we are all vulnerable and that we in work and competition for applications, excellent publications and better teaching, must remember to take care of each other.

There have been several upturns in 2016. We have had 26 PhD dissertations. This is more than a quarter of all PhD dissertations at the faculty. Currently, K2 has 147 candidates in the PhD program which represents almost a third of all MOF candidates in this program. Regarding publication activity it is a bit early to say how things have gone this year. I will come back to this upon the new-year. The new curriculum in medicine is well underway although much work remains. On pharmaceuticals there were admitted a record number of students this year, a full 44 which is a near doubling of the previous year’s number. The economy of K2 is recovered and we are going over in 2017 with a surplus. The BOA economy reached the budgeted estimate of 80 million kroners. Fortunately, there are many research groups behind this number. It should also be noted that K2 obtained a new Jebsen Center this year, to Eystein Husebye and his research group.

K2 has now in place a new strategy plan for the three year period 2016-18. It is a mere one page and should be easy to read. Several targets have been reached even if there is any left.

I would like to thank everyone for their efforts in 2016. Special thanks to our professor emeritus who make a great effort as Custos of the PhD defenses and also contribute to the publication number.

Merry Christmas! Per

New Names

15577715_1199340486827384_880035647_nIntroducing Johnny Laupsa-Borge, master in human nutrition at the University of Bergen. He started on December 1st 2016  as a PhD fellow at K2, and is Associated With  research groups Ueland / Nygård (G3) and Hormones (G2). Supervisor is Ottar Nygård, and Johnny will mainly look at how the intake of saturated fat can affect variables associated with atherogenic dyslipidemia. If you want to say hello, you’ll find him on the 8th floor of the lab building.

Announcement of Peder Sather funds for 2017

University of Bergen in Peder Sather consortium along with several other Norwegian institutions. This is an arrangement where Norwegian research community can get financial support to cooperation with researchers at UC-Berkeley.

The announcement of Peder Sather funds for 2016 are now announced. Information and application forms available at the following address: http://sathercenter.berkeley.edu/peder-sather-grant/

Please note that all disciplines and subjects can apply, and recalls that the deadline for applications is March 1, 2017.

POST, TRANSPORT AND CAMPUS BUS – CHRISTMAS 2016.

Because of. holiday period will postutkjøringen be delivered at an earlier time during Christmas.

TPS asks specifically about that device, department and faculty that are closed during Christmas, notify the TPS about this, and then as soon as possible.

This makes the E-mail: transport@uib.no

Campus bus runs NOT week 52.

First day of the route will be Monday 2 January 2017.

Material retiring partially Christmas holidays.

Only smaller transport missions are therefore conducted zero through nine December 27>, inclusive December 30th.

Distribution of invitation – The Anders Jahre Awards for Medical Research for 2017

Since 1960, The University of Oslo has had the pleasure of annually awarding the Anders Jahre Medical Prizes for outstanding research and results within the medical sciences in the Nordic countries. Since 1965, the prize has been supplemented by a prize to young investigators under the age of 40. 2017 and onwards, the prizes will be upgraded.

The prize sums will be increased, and the awards will be handed out every second year. Please see more information on this here

Over the years, the Anders Jahre Awards for Medical Research have been given to more than 150 scientists. The prize is seen both as a recognition of scientific achievements and as an incentive for further research in the medical sciences. In order to obtain information about possible candidates for the prize, The University of Oslo depends on input from the medical faculties at Nordic universities. Only serving professors of medicine have the right to nominate candidates.

Letter of invitation can be found here.

As stated in the letter of invitation, nominations must be in pdf format and not exceed 3 MB in size. They must be mailed to the secretary of the prize committee, Anette Sørensen. Please use the email address anette.sorensen@medisin.uio.no.

The proposals must be received before February 1, 2017.

Questions can be addressed to the chairman of the prize committee Professor Harald Stenmark. Please use the e-mail address: h.a.stenmark@medisin.uio.no.

Further information can be found here.  The board of the University of Oslo has decided that proposals shall be kept strictly confidential.

Letter from Brussel

picture-23423-1472555091Dear colleagues,

In case you are interested in bringing your research to a European level, some interesting times are ahead of us. First of all, new calls for proposals have been published for thematic area ‘Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing’. Secondly, the European Commission is currently working on the work programme 2018-2020. If you want to have your saying for the content of the topics, January will be the time to do so.

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Information about scholarships

About a year ago there was an opportunity  about a year ago it was the opportunity to apply for grants for post-doctoral studies in human nutrition from Henning and Johan Throne-Holst Foundation www.throneholst.org for entrepreneurial scientific research.

It is also possible to learn about scholarships for postgraduate studies or time for visiting researchers under the research time or on a visiting scholarship to get foreign researchers to come to an institution in  Norway or Sweden to stimulate the internal workings. The next round of applications is in February 2017.

For more information