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US President Obama’s cancer project collaborates with the Oslo Cancer Cluster in order to find breakthroughs in cancer prevention and treatment. Last week, Oslo Cancer Cluster’s CEO Ketil Widerbrg together with Jason Paragas from the Lawrence Livermore Research Laborator were interviewed by Norwegian Television about the role of cooperation and super-computers in finding better cancer […]

Researchers Erlend Strønen, Johanna Olweus and the Immunotherapy Jebsen Center in Oslo’s work on a breakthrough methodological development in generating  broad and tumour-specific T-cell immune responses has been published in the journal Science. The researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital show that even if one’s own immune cells cannot recognize […]

Theodossis Theodossiou and Kristian Berg will receive funding from the Future and Emerging Technology program under the Excellent Science section of the Horizon 2020. The FET program funded 11 projects out of 820 grant applications (1,4 % success rate) and the proposal by Theodossiou and Berg from the Photochemical internalisation group at the Department of Radiation Biology […]

The Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) has helped to fund the development of a vaccine against the deadly rotavirus, which affects children in particular. The vaccine is now being added to India’s immunisation programme. Working together with international research groups, Indian researchers have developed the Rotavac vaccine, which […]

Oslo Cancer Cluster and NCE Smart Energy Markets together with four European clusters in medicine and IT managed to land a prestigious Horizon 2020 EU project. The EU project will use innovative IT solutions to develop personalized cancer treatment. Allocated funds is 45 million, of which 34 million is earmarked for small and medium enterprises […]

For the first time Norwegian health technology companies have been invited to Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA. This historical event has been made possible by the Friends of Norway Caucus with Congressman Larsen and American Defense International (ADI), and with support from Innovation Norway. Small and innovative Norwegian companies demonstrated the latest and best […]