Previous events
The links between health and climate change are undeniable. 120 world-leading experts have looked at more than 40 indicators for The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown. Join us for the virtual Oslo launch to discover the new findings on December 4th at 13.00 CET.
The links between health and climate change are undeniable. 120 world-leading experts have looked at more than 40 indicators for The 2020 Report of the Lancet Countdown. Join us for the virtual Oslo launch to discover the new findings on December 4th at 13.00 CET.
“The good, the bad and the ugly”. Why would we need a Centre for Healthy Ageing at the University of Oslo (UiO) and why should it be an inter-disciplinary approach? The 4th NO-Age meeting has compiled a high caliber inter-disciplinary speakers to share and discuss their expertise on such topics.
How is energy demand made, how does it change and how can it be steered? Join us in the first Hal Wilhite Memorial Lecture with Elizabeth Shove.
MSc Vibeke Bratseth at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Pro-thrombotic activity and circulating microvesicles in diabetes, with and without CAD. Special emphasis on the influence of exercise training and longitudinal development” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Prof. Tone Kvernbekk is visiting the Science Colloquium Series. Kvernbekk is Deputy Head and Head of Studies at UiO's Department of Education. Her professional interests are primarily within philosophy of science, philosophy of education, argumentation and narrative theory, or some combination of them, as exemplified in this talk.
MD Jon Olav Gjengstø Hunderi at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Acute infant bronchiolitis; management and prognosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Daniel Semakula at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Improving critical thinking about treatment claims, evidence and choices. Development and evaluation of an intervention to improve the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to critically appraise the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects and make informed health choices” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Marianne Ruud at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Regulation of cardiomyocyte structure and function by workload for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
MSc Tharvesh Moideen Liyakat Ali at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Three-dimensional topology of the genome: A computational modeling perspective” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Anub Mathew Thomas at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Complement in Sterile Inflammation and Methodological Challenges” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
The seminar is open to all interested including scholars, students, practitioners and journalists.
Please note that this seminar will be digital through Zoom only. If you like to participate, please contact Mona Østvang Ådum, and we will send you the Zoom link.
MD Anton Baysa at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The role of p66ShcA and TLR9 signaling in myocardial remodeling and innate immune responses” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Kjersti Johnsrud at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis 18F-FDG PET imaging of atherosclerotic carotid stenosis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
SPARK Norway Educational Forum are meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.
Torma is a Research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center (Munich), working on the history of marine biology. Her research interests include the history of science, and the cultural and environmental history of the nineteenth and twentieth century. She has published on the history of mountaineering, animal protection issues in Africa, on Germany and the oceans, and on the broader field of colonialism. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference’s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.
MSc Kuan Yang at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Metabolic Regulation of TLR4 and NLRP3 Activities for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Nathaniel Comfort is Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively about the history of human genetics and the relationships between attempts to understand human heredity and to “improve” humans. His online lecture will be followed by an online panel session. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference’s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.
MD Sigrid Aune de Rodez Benavent at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “An ophthalmic acumen - On symptoms and signs in early Multiple Sclerosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc. Myint Myint Wai at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Contraception and Fertility in Myanmar: Trends and Dynamics - A study of married women’s Contraceptive use and Unmet Need for Family Planning in Yangon south and north” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
The annual conference for the Centre for Digital Life Norway – a unique transdisciplinary research centre creating the biotechnology of tomorrow.
Dr. Esti Yeger-Lotem, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, will present her lecture "Elucidating disease mechanisms via their tissue-selectivity."
Dr. med Oliver Henning at Institute for Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The patient's perspective on epilepsy - challenges, sexual problems, provision of information and adherence to treatment” for the degree of Dr. Philos (Doctor Philosophiae).
MD Bishwajit Bhowmik at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Diabetes and its Association with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors – Identification of High-risk Individuals in a Rural Bangladeshi Population” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Prof. Barbara Osimani is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy and Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Polytechnic University of the Marche, Italy. She has been recently heading an ERC project, which also ran at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU: "Philosophy of Pharmacology: Safety, Statistical Standards, and Evidence Amalgamation" (GA StG 639276). She is an ordinary member of the Open Science Center at the LudwigMaximilians Universität, Munich, and Visiting Professor at the MCMP, LMU. Her current research interests are focused on philosophy of statistics and scientific inference in research contexts characterised by strategic behaviour. She is developing a "Formal Epistemology of Medicine", with the aim to analyse the complex interaction of methodological, social and regulatory as well as ethical dimensions in medicine. Her scientific interests include: the precautionary principle, evidence hierarchies, causality, and statistical inference in medicine. Her recent papers analyse issues around philosophy of evidence (reliability, bias, reproducibility, coherence) from a Bayesian perspective. Within her ERC Grant she developed a Bayesian framework for the integration of heterogenous items of evidence and higher order evidence for the purpose of causal assessment of drug-induced harm ("E-Synthesis"), in collaboration with Drug Agencies across Europe.