The six new SPARK Norway teams, so called SPARKees, were selected after the first open call for SPARK Norway. The competition was extremely tough.
The SPARK NORWAY teams
- based on the prestigious Stanford SPARK programme
- a two-year innovation programme to further develop ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society
- the aim of the programme is to get more innovation out of basic research.
- researchers from UiO and affiliated research groups at OUS or Ahus can apply UiO:Life Science to be included in the programme.
- researchers who are admitted to the SPARK Norway programme receives mentoring from seasoned experts from academia, hospital, industry and venture capital funds, milestone-based funding, guidance and education.
A novel strategy to tailor the pharmacokinetics of IgA antibodies
- Project leader: Simone Mester, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiO
- Team members: Inger Sandlie (UiO) and Jan Terje Andersen (OUS)
- Watch Mester?s presentation at the SPARK Norway kick-off 13 February 2018.
Tankyrase inhibition in cancer immune therapy
- Project leader: Jo Waaler, Faculty of Medicine, UiO
- Team member: Stefan Krauss, (UiO and OUS)
Novel therapy for currently untreatable hypertension
- Project leader: Henriette Andresen, Department of Pharmacology and Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, UiO
- Team members: Lise Román Moltzau (UiO) Finn Olav Levy (UiO) og Alessandro Cataliotti (UiO)
- Watch Andresen?s presentation at the SPARK Norway kick-off 13 February 2018
Restoration of a functional urinary bladder using cutting-edge technology
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