Welcome
Welcome to the first NCMM Newsletter. We’ll be sending these out monthly, sharing the latest news, updates and developments from the NCMM Network. If you have any feedback, thoughts or news that you would like to share in a future newsletter, just email NCMM's Communications Officer, Annabel Darby, here.
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Merger between NCMM and BiO
The merger between the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) and the Biotechnology Centre for Oslo (BiO) was formally completed on the 2 January 2017.
The merger will significantly strengthen the Centre scientifically, strategically and also in terms of local anchoring, funding base and infrastructure.
NCMM also has a new website, which can be found at www.med.uio.no/ncmm
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NCMM Annual Network Meeting
The annual NCMM Network Meeting will take place on 6 & 7 February at Oslo Science Park.
Day one: Open to all. Panel debates and in-depth talks looking at the latest research, followed by dinner.
Day two: Open to NCMM group leaders and NCMM Associate and Young Associate Investigators only. This will include scientific speed-dating, elevator pitches and plenty of time for networking.
Click below to download the event programme.
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Young Talent grant awarded to Nikolina Sekulic
NCMM Group Leader, Nikolina Sekulic, has been awarded a prestigious ‘Young Talent’ grant from Forskningsrådet (The Research Council of Norway).
Nikolina was awarded the grant for her research into understanding how our genome is safeguarded through countless rounds of duplication and separation into new cells. Click below to read more about the grant and her project.
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Two grants awarded to Professor Kjetil Taskén
Congratulations to Professor Kjetil Taskén, director of NCMM, who has been awarded two grants.
His project, Targeting tumour immune evasion mechanisms mediated by prostaglandin E2, cyclic AMP and regulatory T cells, received 6 million NOK from the Norwegian Cancer Society.
Professor Taskén was also recently awarded 4.5 million NOK (1.5m a year) by Helse Sør-Øst for furthering his work with immunotherapy.
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Paper in Current Biology
NCMM Group Leader, Sandra Lopez-Aviles, recently had a paper published in Current Biology, a leading journal that looks at the latest developments across all areas of primary biological research. The paper, and the research behind it, looks at the interaction between two yeast complexes, TORC1 and TORC2, and how they regulate the differentiation response in Fission Yeast.
Read the paper on Current Biology (open access) here.
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Grant for NCMM & EATRIS
NCMM and EATRIS (European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine) Norway have received funding from the Helse-EU programme at the Research Council of Norway to recruit an EATRIS Coordinator.
The grant means that NCMM can appoint a dedicated coordinator who can focus on helping increase Norwegian involvement in EATRIS’ European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
Read more here.
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