NLS The Research Council of Norway

The Research Council of Norway’s Innovation Award for 2017 has been awarded to Thermo Fisher Scientific. The company was awarded the prize for developing a new variant of an existing product, making it possible to analyse human genes quickly and effectively and improve diagnostic testing and patient treatment. The product is the result of research […]

The Research Council of Norway is awarding funding to six new projects under the new Centre for Digital Life Norway, which will bring the total number of projects associated with the centre to 12. “Digitalisation is transforming research in the life sciences. The link between biotechnology and digitalisation also opens the door to new opportunities […]

The Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Cancer Society are joining forces to ensure that results from Norwegian cancer research make it from the laboratory to the market more quickly. Under a call for proposals issued jointly by the Research Council and the Cancer Society in 2015, seven projects will be allocated a total of […]

The Research Council of Norway’s Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) is co-funding testing of a new vaccine against Ebola. Preliminary results from the Norwegian-led trial underway in Guinea, published in the medical journal The Lancet, indicate that the vaccine may provide complete protection against Ebola virus disease. The vaccine study is a […]

The Research Council of Norway has allocated NOK 454 million in funding over four years to projects in the ICT sector, biotechnology and biomedicine. In total, 58 companies were awarded funding, and over one third of these were first-time applicants for Research Council funding. “It is a very good sign that we have received so many excellent […]