Monthly Archives: November 2022

2023-2024 Call for Proposals from the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study at UC Berkeley

Dear Colleagues:

The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study supports projects carried out by researchers at UC Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from eight Norwegian universities. The Center offers grants between $10K and $25K. Funds are made available for two academic years.

Grants can support activities such as workshops, mini-conferences, virtual intellectual exchanges, the undertaking of exploratory and pilot studies, activities such as PhD student exchanges, longer-term stays for Principal Investigators, the collection and analysis of data, and other core research activities.

Interested applicants should visit the Proposal Application Guidelines on the Peder Sather Center Website. All application materials must be submitted by the deadline of April 3, 2023.

Eligibility
Eligible collaborating applicants from both UC Berkeley and Norwegian consortium institutions must be in contact with one another prior to applying for funds, and have a letter of collaboration commitment signed by both parties. There must be at least one Principal Investigator from UC Berkeley and one from a Norwegian consortium institution.

Principal Investigators from UC Berkeley must be ladder-rank faculty (i.e. hold Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor titles); no substitutions may be made. Principal Investigators from Norwegian consortium institutions must hold the position of either postdoktor (on the condition that the individual is able to document consistent employment at the consortium institution for the duration of the project), førsteamanuensis or professor (i.e. hold positions equivalent to Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor titles in the US).

Members of research teams who are not Principal Investigators themselves can hold other positions such as lecturer, visiting scholar, postdoctoral fellow, or graduate student. In order to receive indirect funding, however, research team members must be affiliated in some way with the participating institutions. Non-affiliated team members are not eligible to receive direct or indirect support from the Center.

Best regards,
The Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study

Dissertation – Ester Anne Kringeland

Trial Lecture:      Tuesday 06. – desember 2022 kl. 10.15
Location:                              Auditorium, Kvinneklinikken, Jonas Liesvei 72
Subject:                «Impact of gender on cardiovascular risk factors and blood pressure -related heart disease»

Ester Anne Kringelands bilde

Dissertation:                     Tuesday 06. – desember 2022 kl. 12.15
Location:                              Auditorium, Kvinneklinikken, Jonas Liesvei 72
Thesis title:      «Sex differences in blood pressure in midlife: associations with risk factors and acute coronary syndromes in the Hordaland Health Studies»

  1. opponent: Professor Annika Rosengren University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  2. opponent: Professor Gianfranco Parati University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  3. medlem av komiteen: Professor Rune Oskar Bjørneklett, Universitetet i Bergen

Dissertation will be lead by professor Francisco Gomez Real.

Open for everyone

Pressemelding

MSCA Staff Exchanges – Webinar

The MSCA staff exchange action funds short-term international and inter-sectoral exchanges of staff members involved in research and innovation activities of participating organisations. The aim is to develop sustainable collaborative projects between different organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors, based in Europe and beyond.

The webinar wil be held on 14 December 09:30 – 11:00, and with contribution from the Research Executive Agency (REA) and a testimony from SINTEF, who is work package leader in the project “DISCO2 STORE”. The call itself has a deadline on 8. March 2023.

Why take part in the webinar? Well for one, the success rates have been encouraging at 25ish %. The action is completely bottom-up and open to all disciplines, and is mainly focused on the mobility and the transfer of knowledge. The diversity in projects is big, and although traditionally dominated by projects within the realms of the engineering panel, projects from the SSH and life sciences are most welcome. This scheme simply allows for fruitful collaborations with colleagues in other sectors and parts of the world.

Time/Place:  14 Dec 09:30 – 11:00; Digital: Live streaming, video recording will be available

Register here: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/events/2022/msca-staff-exchanges-se–webinar-on-the-call-for-2022/

Call for proposals: Innovation potential on Nordic patient records

Call for proposals Instrument Deadline 31.01.2023

Nordic Innovation will fund a project with the aim to demonstrate a concrete solution utilizing the context-rich information provided in patient journals records across Nordic countries in solving healthcare challenges.

D-line 31 January 2023 at 12.00 CET

https://www.nordicinnovation.org/programs/call-proposals-innovation-potential-nordic-patient-records

Call for proposals: Applied Ethical AI on Nordic Patient Records

Call for proposals Instrument Deadline 31.01.2023

Nordic Innovation will fund the development and demonstration of an ethical AI-based solution, capable of reading patient records across the Nordic countries, Nordic languages and different medical health record systems.

D-line 31 January 2023 at 12.00 CET

https://www.nordicinnovation.org/programs/call-proposals-applied-ethical-ai-nordic-patient-records

Durham University – Addison Wheeler Fellowships

Durham University – Addison Wheeler Fellowships

I am delighted to announce the opening of the Addison Wheeler Fellowships. The Fellowship is designed to attract the best early career researchers in the UK, Europe and beyond and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities, and to build international networks of scholars with a common passion for today’s most important research challenges. I should be most grateful if you could draw this exciting opportunity to the attention of your colleagues.

Three postdoctoral Fellowships are available commencing 01 October 2023.  These Fellowships have no residency restrictions.  The closing date for applications is midnight on 10 January 2023. The normal period of the Fellowship will be 3 years with starting salaries in the range £35,797 – £42,155 p.a.  Full details can be found at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/

I do hope you will encourage your colleagues to apply.

Yours sincerely
Professor Karen O’Brien
Vice-Chancellor and Warden
E-mail vice.chancellor@durham.ac.uk

All Fellowship enquires to: ias.manager@durham.ac.uk
Executive Officer Denise Baker
E-mail denise.baker@durham.ac.uk

Support for academic and non-profit ATMP developers

EMA Patrick Celis, the Lead Scientific Officer in EMA’s Advanced Therapies Office will give you an overview of all the support tools in place at the European Medicines Agency for medicine developers from the academic sector. He will also give some insights into the recently announced academic ATMP development support pilot.

The webinar will take place on 1 December 2022 at 12:00-13:00 CET via Zoom. We encourage participants to submit any questions in advance via the Zoom registration form. More information about the EMA Academic Pilot can be found here.

https://eatris.eu/events/eatris-and-ema-present-webinar-on-support-for-academic-and-non-profit-atmp-developers

CCBIO junior symposium

We are happy to welcome you all to the upcoming CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium, December 8th, 2022. This seminar series is a perfect place to meet and interact with other young scientists. We anticipate that the discussions will be as lively and interesting as the October Symposium. We are very happy to announce that Professor Camilla Krakstad at CCBIO, will give a talk about her experiences with going abroad for research and give some early career advice. The program is varied and exiting spanning from treatment strategies for AML patients, phenotypic profiling of young women with breast cancer, immune and microenvironmental responses to cell death in glioblastoma and what emotional eating and changes in dietary patterns may do to the mind.

Please register within December 6th at 11.00.

Open consultation to support the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine

The open consultation to validate and receive input for the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) in support for the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine, EP PerMed, is launched.

Purposes of the online consultation

  • Communication of the SRIA in general and the identified “Triplets of Action” in specific,
  • To obtain general input, especially related to the “Triplets of Action”,
  • Input regarding the urgency and timing of the “Triplets of Action”,
  • To obtain suggestions for additional “Triplets of Action”.

Please respond to the online consultation by 21 December:

https://enquetes.agencerecherche.fr/index.php/survey/index/sid/976696/lang/en

(Norsk) Hvordan få gullet ut av helsedata?

Time and location: 8. desember 2022 kl. 10:00 at Eitri Medical Incubator, Haukelandsbakken 31

The University of Bergen, the Institute of Public Health, Norce, Eitri and The Life Science Cluster​ welcome you to a seminar on safe storage of third-party data in research projects.

Do you work with legal issues at hospitals or universities, or are you involved in research projects yourself? 

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UiB Ferd Christmas 2022: Of course you would never publish in a predatory journal…or would you?

UiB Ferd Career Centre’s first Christmas lecture ever, is about predatory publishing. Henriette Christie Ertsås/ Science to the people humbly asks if scientific discovery can ever be compatible with the reigning publishing model, without science and society falling prey.

08.12.2022 – 14.00–16.00

Seminarrom E, Studensenteret, Parkveien 1

https://www.uib.no/en/ferd/158170/uib-ferd-christmas-2022-course-you-would-never-publish-predatory-journalor-would-you

Editorial

Teaching is a team sport

Recently, I was in a meeting at SUS with our teachers in Stavanger. A useful take-home message was that the distance to colleagues in the other campuses may feel long: one may feel left alone to solve the issues related to teaching. Conversations with colleagues in Haugesund confirmed this experience. However, some colleagues in Bergen in smaller fields have also reported feeling left alone regarding teaching responsibilities. Hence, the issue is not geography but communication.

If you want to go fast, walk alone – if you want to go far, walk together. All academic employees at K2 should belong to a teaching group led by a UGLE. The UGLE can facilitate contact with the coordinator who can give access to relevant information in MittUiB. If you know someone who may not know which UGLE they “belong” to, or you yourself need help to get in touch with your teaching group, please contact me at mette.vesterhus@uib.no .

My hope is that we learn to talk more about teaching in teaching groups spanning all relevant educational programmes and campuses. For Medicine, work is ongoing both in the project group for Vestlandslegen in Stavanger and in a working group making plans for changes for year 4-6 in Bergen. It should stay a goal that the students achieve the same learning objectives and that the quality of the exams and other forms of evaluation is the responsibility of the collective teaching staff within teaching groups across single teachers and campuses.

The UGLE are invited to a meeting on Tuesday November 29th at 11:30 (further info in email).

Seminar: Senter for ernæring

Senter for ernæring har gleden av å invitere til et nytt seminar i vår seminarrekke. Serien tar opp sentrale utfordringer innen ernæring og helse.

Tittel: Patient microbiota modulation by fecal transplantation
Foreleser: W. Florian Fricke, professor, University of Hohenheim, Tyskland
Moderator: Simon Dankel
Tid: Torsdag 1. desember 2022 kl. 14.30-15.30
Sted: Aud. 2, BB-bygget / Zoom

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Durham University – Addison Wheeler Fellowships

I am delighted to announce the opening of the Addison Wheeler Fellowships. The Fellowship is designed to attract the best early career researchers in the UK, Europe and beyond and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities, and to build international networks of scholars with a common passion for today’s most important research challenges. I should be most grateful if you could draw this exciting opportunity to the attention of your colleagues.

Three postdoctoral Fellowships are available commencing 01 October 2023.  These Fellowships have no residency restrictions.  The closing date for applications is midnight on 10 January 2023. The normal period of the Fellowship will be 3 years with starting salaries in the range £35,797 – £42,155 p.a.  Full details can be found at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/

I do hope you will encourage your colleagues to apply.

Yours sincerely

Professor Karen O’Brien
Vice-Chancellor and Warden
E-mail vice.chancellor@durham.ac.uk
All Fellowship enquires to: ias.manager@durham.ac.uk

Executive Officer Denise Baker
E-mail denise.baker@durham.ac.uk

(Norsk) K2 intern prosess i forbindelse med NFR frister februar 2022

The Research Council of Norway announces funding for research projects for scientific renewal and collaborative projects to meet societal and industry-related challenges.

Are you planning to apply for funding within these calls? If yes, please fill in this form latest 28 November

This helps economists and research advisors to support the applicants in the best possible way.

Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal (Thematic Priority Call) – deadline 8 February 2023

https://www.forskningsradet.no/utlysninger/2023/forskerprosjekt-fornyelse/

Thematic priorities

Collaborative Project to Meet Societal and Industry-related Challenges – deadline 15 February 2023

https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/call-for-proposals/2023/collaborative-project-industry/

The Norwegian Cancer Society’s Prize for Young Cancer Researchers 2023

The Norwegian Cancer Society’s Prize for Young Cancer Reserachers 2023 – Insights (kreftforeningen.no)

Eligibility of the candidates: The Norwegian Cancer Society’s awards a prize to a young cancer researcher who has contributed to furthering the quality and scope of cancer research in Norway. The same person can receive the prize only once.

The candidate to be nominated must: be under 40 years old by the nomination deadline; hold a PhD;

be associated with a Norwegian university, university college, hospital, any other institution with research as part of its noncommercial activities; have documented talent, shown extraordinary effort and achieved results of high quality for cancer research in Norway.

The nomination should be in line with the evaluation criteria and must include nomination letter containing motivation and background to nominate the candidate and description of the candidates’ research effort within the field of cancer research; CV; list of publications.

Eligibility of the nominator: any person or group of persons can nominate candidates for the prize; you may nominate several candidates; every nomination must be done through separate application forms.

How to nominate: nomination must be done through the ApplicationWeb of Norwegian Cancer Society.

King Olav V‘s Cancer Research Fund’s prize 2023

The King Olav V Cancer Research Fund was established by the Norwegian Cancer Society on April 29, 1992, in memory of King Olav V to honour cancer researchers in Norway.
Size of prize 1 MNOK, application deadline 5. January 2023, 13:00.
King Olav Vs Cancer Research Fund’s prize 2023 – Insights (kreftforeningen.no)

Eligibility of the candidates: The fund awards a prize to a cancer researcher, or a group of researchers, who have contributed to furthering the quality and scope of cancer research in Norway. A group of researchers is defined by several researchers working together on joint research project(s). Each of the researchers in the group must individually have a research production of importance. If a group is suggested, the group members must be identified by name. The same person can receive the prize only once.

Eligibility of the nominator: Any person or group of persons can nominate candidates for the prize. You may nominate several candidates. Every nomination must be done through separate application forms.

How to nominate: Nomination must be done through the ApplicationWeb of Norwegian Cancer Society.

ERC Proposal Reading Days open for registration

We have scheduled a Reading Day in Stavanger on Nov 30th, Bergen on Dec 7th and at Lysaker (Oslo) Dec 13th. We are planning at Day at UiO in the beginning of January.

Conditions for the Reading Days

  • Only by preregistration
  • You must sign Declaration of Confidentiality
  • Photocopying or photos of the applications are not allowed
  • Applications cannot be taken out of the reading room

Who can participate

The Reading Days are only open for researchers at Norwegian institutions (universities, university colleges, research institutes etc.) and for EU-advisers who are employed by Norwegian institutions. Please use your institutional e-mail address when you register.

https://forskningsradet.pameldingssystem.no/erc-proposal-reading-day