- 7. February, Artificial Intelligence Breakfast Seminar, Oslo
About artificial intelligence and medicine, hosted by DLN in collaboration with NORA - Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.
- February and March, Data management planning course, Tromsø, Ås and Trondheim
On how to generate a data management plan for a life science project that meet funding requirements. Open for all, organized by DLN and Elixir Norway.
21.2 in Tromsø, 11.3 in Ås and Trondheim. Dates in Bergen and Oslo TBA.
- 24. March, Introduksjonskurs i patentbeskyttelse, Oslo
Gratis kurs hos Patentstyret om sikring av verdier og hva man må vite for å patentere.
- 25. - 27. March, HAVBRUK2020 - klima for havbruk? Bergen
Aquaculture conference for researchers, industry, government administration and politicians.
- 25. - 27. May, 8th Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells - From Systems Medicine towards Digital Health, Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract deadline March 15.
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Research School events
The Digital Life Norway Research School offers travel grants to members who would like to attend these courses. Registration deadlines coming up soon.
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The 4th Annual Conference of the Digital Life Norway Research School
Registration for this year's Digital Life Research School Conference is now open.Time and place is 25. - 27. May in Malangen Tromsø. This is for and by members of the research school and main topics this year are: how to get the most out of your PhD or postdoc, what is the next step after it - science, industry or both, and how to be a responsible teacher. Read more.
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THE DIGITAL LIFE FOOTPRINT
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Grand award to Heidrun Åm
Heidrun Åm, Project Manager for the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN) research project «Res Publica – Responsibility, practice, and the public good across Digital Life Norway», was recently honored with the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters’ (DKNVS) scientific award to younger researchers, because of her humanistic and social scientific approach to technology and biomedicine, and that she has already lead several large research projects, including her work in DLN. Read more.
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DIAP-project granted milestone funding
The Double Intraperitoneal Artificial Pancreas project in Trondheim has been granted 450 000 NOK in milestone funding from the Research Council of Norway. The funding will be used for an Intellectual Asset Management assessment. This will provide a structured overview of all intellectual assets in DIAP, external analysis of the stakeholders in this technology area and an IP strategy for further commercialisation. Both NTNU TTO and Digital Life Norway innovation have contributed in the application process.
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Challenges with antibiotics require transdisciplinary approach
The severe problems of antibiotics and resistance must be approached through transdisciplinary efforts, writes Gisle Solbu from the Digital Life Norway research project Res Publica in this blog. On April 1, a joint effort with DLN projects Res Publica, RESPOND3, Future antibiotics and InBioPharm, will host a workshop with key players to initiate change within development of antibiotics. Read more (in Norwegian).
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Digital Life at Norwegian Biochemical Society contact meeting
Centre for Digital Life Norway was present in various parts of the NBS contact meeting in Voss 23.-36 January. The centre supported a plenary talk by Silvia Santos, organized a data management session and participated with a stand at the meeting. In addition, several members of our research school presented their science in minisymposia and poster sessions.
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dCod hosts toxicology conference
"Ocean Health in the Anthropocene" is the title of the 2020 edition of the Norwegian Environmental Toxicology Symposium. DLN research project dCod is in charge of organizing the event that will take place in Bergen April 22-24. More details about the conference is available on the conference web site. Read more.
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New presentations of Digital Life research
Six 'newcomers' to the Digital Life community have received new project presentations on our website. Learn about research on personalised cancer treatments (PINpOINT), AI-aided analysis of prostate cancer in MR images (PROVIZ), improved drug discovery and development by computational methods (RESPOND3), listening to the gut to improve diabetes treatment (Listening to the patients), environmentally friendly development of Palladium nanoparticles (BEDPAN), and functional vault organelles in salmon lice (LiceVault).
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Support for Cross-Project Activities
The Centre provides support for research activities between projects. This could be exchange of competence, methods, small pilot projects, workshops, research visits etc. This is also a good opportunity to involve researchers and postdocs in the project. Deadline February 21. Read more.
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Support for public dissemination of research
Would you like support to take your research out to the public? The national science festival Forskningsdagene takes place 16. - 27. September. This year's main topic is the brain. The Research Council of Norway offers support to events with deadline March 2. DLN projects interested in organizing something for the festival may also receive support from the Centre. Contact communication advisor Hilde Zwaig Kolstad.
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Innovation project has begun
The Research Council-funded DLN initiative aiming for a change process towards increased translation and innovation within the academic sector, has been taken on by a team of four consultants from Technopolis Group.
DLN project managers and stakeholders may be approached by Göran, Peter, Tomas or Torbjørn in the time to come, when they set out to learn more about the situation of the Norwegian academic innovation support system.
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Increased travel and event support
In order to promote international collaborations with countries outside Europe, the Norwegian Research Council has expanded their support for traveling and organizing bilateral events. Read more (in Norwegian).
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