The Centre for Digital Life Norway annual report 2020 is out!
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- Comments from scientific director Trygve Brautaset and board chairperson Finn-Eirik Johansen.
- Centre highlights with overview of how the centre has stimulated collaboration across disciplines and projects; innovation, commercialisation and industry collaboration; better research data management; responsible research and innovation (RRI); career development in general and through the research school; and communication and the Digital Life Norway community.
- Highlights from the research projects affiliated with the centre, including overview of PhD students who defended their thesis in 2020.
- 2020 at a glance with overview of events, facts and figures and people in the centre.
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Centre industry interns share their experience in Nature
One highlight of the centre in 2020, was the launch of the industry internship programme. Last week, three of the seven PhD students who got a chance to work in a biotech company through the programme, shared their experience in the Nature Career Column. The authors Eric Juskewitz, UiT, Kathleen Anne Heck, NTNU, and Nancy Saana Banono, UiO, carried out their internships in GlucoSet in Trondheim, IDL Biotech in Stockholm, and Theracule AS in Oslo respectively.
Read their stories in the article Why industry internships can be your ‘golden ticket’ to a prosperous career on nature.com.
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The transdisciplinary prize 2020 to INBioPharm
Last week, the antibiotics project INBioPharm at SINTEF and NTNU was awarded the Digital Life Norway prize for transdisciplinary publication of the year 2020. In the award-winning paper they have integrated experimental and computational work. Scientific director Trygve Brautaset handed over the prize – a NOK 50 000 check – to PhD student Snorre Sulheim, SINTEF/NTNU, who is first author of the paper, and project leader of INBioPharm Alexander Wentzel, SINTEF.
Read more about the project and the award-winning paper.
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The basic know-how webinar series are tailored to researchers in the centre, but are free and open to other parts of Norwegian academia.
25 March, 10–11 AM, Zoom
Know-how webinar on regulatory affairs – basic principles medical devices part 2:
The paperwork and requirements for documentation
with Link Medical Research
Sign up today if you want to participate.
8 April, 9–10 AM, Zoom
Know-how webinar on regulatory affairs:
Software as a medical device
with Kim Brügger, Neuro-SysMed, Centre for Clinical Treatment Research, Haukeland University Hospital
Registration deadline: 6 April
15 April, 9–10:30 AM, Zoom
Know-how webinar on IPR in digital biotech part 1:
IPR biotech and software – basic laws and regulations
with the Norwegian Industrial Property Office
Registration deadline: 8 April
22 April, 9–10:30 AM, Zoom
Know-how webinar on IPR in digital biotech part 2:
Patenting and digital biotech – from biological insights to algorithmic solutions
with the Norwegian Industrial Property Office
Registration deadline: 8 April
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"Digital frukost" is an open breakfast seminar series focusing on research activities at the interface between the biological sciences and that of mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or social sciences.
26 March, 08:30–09:30 AM, Zoom
Intelligent systems for disease risk prediction,
with Tom Michoel, UiB
Registration deadline: 25 March
30 April, 08:30–09:30 AM, Zoom
Genome-scale models of microbial communities and their application to biotechnology,
with Daniel Machado, NTNU
Registration deadline: 29 April
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Join us for digital Nordic Life Science Days 20–23 April
NLSDays is the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the global life science industry. It attracts leading decision makers from the life science sector biotech, pharma, healthtech, finances, research, policy and regulatory authorities.
We invite research projects in the centre to join us and will cover the registration fee for one person per project.
Read more about the event and how you can attend with the centre, and show your interest to join us.
Deadline for showing interest: 8 April
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New course in design thinking in healthcare innovation: Do you want to learn Design Thinking methodology and how you can utilize it in bringing forth solutions for healthcare challenges? Apply to get a place on this 2 ECTS GREAT design thinking course. Master’s and PhD students in our research projects and research school are eligible to apply.
Wednesdays week 19–22 (12 May–2 June), online
Read more about the centre's involvement in the GREAT Nordic–Baltic network and the course, and apply with a motivation letter.
Application deadline: 11 April 23:30 (CEST)
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Digital Life Norway meets dScience: How can Norwegian biotechnology benefit from cross-centre collaboration?
We invite researchers in the centres and digital life science and biotechnology researchers at UiO to meet the management of both centres to discuss the needs and explore the possibilities for collaboration.
29 April, 9–10 AM, Zoom
See the programme and sign up.
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5th conference of Digital Life Norway Research School
Topics: innovative toolbox, communication skills, mental health, and career perspectives.
9–11 June, Malangen (Tromsø)
See the exciting programme that was published last week, and sign up.
Registration deadline: 15 April
Visit the webpage of the research school to see the overview of other events and courses.
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3DLife – emulating life in 3D with digital and experimental tissue models
CCBIO – Centre for Cancer Biomarkers
INBioPharm – new drugs to combat antibiotic resistance
External events
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Call: New transdisciplinary grants for young researchers
For PhD students and postdocs affiliated with the centre through the research school.
See the call and apply.
The call is open until 30 June 2021.
Grants are awarded continuously.
Check our services webpage for calls from the Research Council of Norway, the European Research Council, Peder Sather Grant Program and Merck global.
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Vacant position
PINpOINT – screening of cancer drug sensitivity data to predict cancer therapies
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