The University of Oslo has presented an ambitious and unprecedented action plan for the humanities towards 2030 - the first such plan ever - in response.
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Cancer emergency rations could provide basis for new treatment
Insight into cancer cells’ own first aid could help the development of a new type of treatment. Johanna Olweus and her team at the UiO (University of Oslo) and the OUS (Oslo University Hospital) are important contributors to this study, which has been published in Nature.
The researcher team at UiO and OUS. From left: Weiwen Yang, Maarja Laos, Johanna Olweus and Morten Milek Nielsen. Photo: Cathrine Knetter Hoel.
Cancers such as malignant melanoma are notoriously difficult to treat. One of the reasons for this is the lack of good therapeutic targets, i.e. specific points for treatment to attack. Such points are ideally properties of the cancer cells that distinguish them from normal cells.
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Researcher project for Young talents grant for Kjersti Lohne
There were 2,363 applications submitted to the Research Council of Norway before the deadline of 25 May, of which 541 were submitted to the Young Research Talent programme. Only about 8% of applications received an offer. One of the successful projects was developed by Kjersti Lohne.
Criminal prosecution as a Nordic export
Kjersti Lohne has been awarded the Young Research Talent Grant. The project Promoting Justice in a Time of Friction (JustExports) project will address how Scandinavian countries “export” ideas and practices from the criminal justice field through international cooperation, and will look at both similarities and differences between different countries.
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New research project funded at RITMO
Alejandro Blenkmann has received 12 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway to study how the brain predicts upcoming events.
This week RITMO researcher Alejandro Blenkmann got the good news that his project Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Human Auditory Predictions: From population- to single neuron recordings got funding.
The ability to predict upcoming events is a core feature of human behavior, yet the neural mechanisms supporting predictions are poorly understood. The project aims at uncovering the neurophysiological basis of auditory predictive coding in humans. This will have an enormous impact on our understanding of how the human brain predicts upcoming events, a process fundamental to normal behavior and often disturbed in neuropsychiatric conditions.