32 projects

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

HUNT-Genes IP: Industry supported Programs for innovation in genomics

The HUNT-Genes IP initiative aims to establish a robust academic-industry collaboration model for population-based genetic research in Norway, leveraging the infrastructure and data resources of the Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT). The project is a strategic partnership between NTNU, St. Olavs Hosp...

Awarded: NOK 14.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Sustainable Health Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Territories of Myanmar (Post-Coup)

The SHIFT pre-project aims to build partnerships between organizations in Myanmar and Norway to prepare for the 2026 Global Health and Development Research call. It addresses health disparities in Myanmar’s conflict-affected regions, focusing on vulnerable populations impacted by the 2021 militar...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Beyond Birth: Priority setting for postnatal care to build a foundation for lifelong well-being

The global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remains unacceptably high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, which continues to bear the greatest burden of maternal deaths. The postnatal period is a critically important window for intervention—one that holds significant potential to prevent future ma...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

INTSAMARBEID-INTSAMARBEID

Building Healthy Food Environment in Schools: Evaluating Co-created Interventions in Low-Resource Settings

Adolescence is a critical period when young people develop long-term eating habits, yet many schools offer foods that are tasty and convenient but not always healthy. To design better school food environments, we first need to understand what students actually eat, what schools provide, and which...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Building Healthy Food Environment in Schools: Evaluating Co-created Interventions in Low Resource Settings

Malnutrition is a major concern among adolescents in low-resource nations such as India and Nepal. Poor nutrition during adolescence increases the risk of early-onset diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and mental health problems, with long-term effects on overall health. Schools can play a ke...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Predicting Care Needs of Older Adults in the Healthcare System through AI-enabled Analysis of Patient-Monitoring Data

An ageing population means more people are living with multiple chronic conditions and have increasing needs for healthcare. To reduce the demand for extensive services, it is important to detect early signs of health decline. This allows for timely interventions—such as adjusting medication or p...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Lipoprotein(a) – impact on cardiovascular disease, public health and potential as preventive health measure

Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and may be responsible for much of the cardiovascular risk that cannot be explained by other risk factors. Lp(a) levels are mainly determined by genes, and approximately 20% of the population has elevated levels of Lp(a...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Sustainable Local Mental Healthcare

The Sustainable Local Mental Healthcare Study (SLaMH study) is a collaborative project aimed at increasing our understanding of how healthcare services for people with mental health problems function, and how these services can be organised in a more sustainable way. Mental health problems are co...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

SmaRTWork - a digital system for personalised return to work recommendations for sick-listed with musculoskeletal disorders

Long-term sickness absence has vast consequences, both for the sick listed worker and society. Musculoskeletal disorders are the most common reason for sickness absence. Despite extensive research on return to work interventions, the results are inconsistent and there is a lack of evidence regard...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Addressing Domestic Violence in Antenatal Care Environments2

Domestic violence (DV) in pregnancy can cause serious adverse maternal and neonatal health effects. Antenatal care (ANC) presents opportunities to reduce these health consequences. Most women use ANC services in their lifetimes, including in Nepal, where this project is based. Evidence of the eff...

Awarded: NOK 10.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Optimizing management of musculoskeletal pain disorders in primary care (SUPPORTPRIM)

Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders are among the most widespread health issues globally and the leading cause of disability. These conditions place a significant burden on both patients and society. Traditional treatments for MSK disorders often lack solid evidence or provide only moderate and short...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Improved Decisions with Causal Inference in Health Services Research

The project has achieved national recognition for highlighting the challenges associated with analysing available registry data in health services research. Such data often contain substantial sources of error, and observational studies are characterised by limited control over confounding factor...

Awarded: NOK 25.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BEDREHELSE-Bedre helse og livskvalitet

The association between physical behaviour and chronic low back and neck pain: Acquiring data from the Norwegian HUNT4 Study

In the 4th survey of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT4), we collected 7-days physical behaviour data in 33 000 adults. Two accelerometers attached to the skin on the right thigh and low back were used to collect the data. By utilising state-of-the-art machine-learning techniques, we have dev...

Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Coeliac disease in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study

Coeliac disease is a prevalent disorder with unknown consequences and causes. In coeliac patients, dietary gluten in wheat, barley and rye leads to inflammation and destruction of the mucosa of the small intestines. Typically, patients with coeliac disease have diarrhoea and weight loss, or poor ...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEVEL-H-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

10th IUHPE European Conference and International Forum for Health Promotion Research

This Forum aim at further research presentations and discussions on how to better the implementation of health promotion thinking and activities by increased user involvement in all stages. Thus, the Forum will serve as a hub for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to meet and discuss he...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

DNA methylation patterns and lung cancer risk prediction

1. Biomarkers and Lung Cancer Risk Reduction Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death world-wide. More than 1.6 million people die from lung cancer every year. The strongest risk factor for lung cancer is tobacco smoke exposure. The best way to prevent lung cancer is to reduce tobacco sm...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FINNUT-Program for forskning og innovasjon i utdanningssektoren

Virtuelle arenaer i medisinsk og helsefaglig utdanning (VirSam)

In the VirSam (Virtuell Samhandling) project, we will use virtual worlds in the education of health professionals. Virtual reality is the use of computers to mirror the real world. We make different rooms and equipment connected to health care, like a patient room in a hospital. Within the virtu...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Norwegian Research School of Global Health

The Norwegian Research School in Global Health (NRSGH) was funded by the Research Council of Norway and started in 2016. The aim was to strengthen the quality of the PhD education in global health. To achieve the goal NRSGH developed and provided courses, seminars, workshops, mobility grants and ...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORINFRA-Nasjonal sats.på forskningsinfrastrukt.

Biobank Norway 2- a national research infrastructure for clinical and population based biobanks

Biobank Norway (BN) was established in 2010 as an infrastructure for optimal use of biobank resources with equal partners from NTNU (coordinator), the Universities of Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø), NIPH, all four regional health authorities and the Cancer Registry and biobank (Janus serum bank). BN re...

Awarded: NOK 85.7 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

National training initiative to make better use of biobanks and health registry data

The high quality of Norwegian population biobanks and health registers facilitates excellent research opportunities. In this project, we have linked health information from two large, Norwegian health surveys with information from Norwegian health registers to better understand the risk of diseas...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

Health Promotion - Worthwhile? Reorienting the community health care services

This HPWW-project containing three work packages and six research projects has gained new knowledge about health-promoting interventions among adolescents, adults with chronic conditions, older adults in nursing homes (NHs) as well as health care professionals working in NHs. Accordingly, this HP...

Awarded: NOK 16.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

The Epidemiology of Early Life Factors and Breast Cancer Risk by Molecular Subtype

Brystkreft kan deles i molekylære undergrupper, og i denne undersøkelsen har vi valgt å kategorisere sykdommen i seks slike grupper. Det er mange faktorer som knyttes til risikoen for brystkreft, og blant disse er også forhold som bestemmes i mors liv, og som påvirker fødselskarakteristika som f...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosjektstøtte for medisin, helse og biologi

Cardiovascular risk trajectories in women with history of pregnancy complications

Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, preterm delivery and fetal growth restriction are common pregnancy complications which each affect roughly 3 to 12 % of individual pregnancies. Growing evidence indicates that women with a history of these conditions are at increased risk of cardiovascular ...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Forskningskoordinator Pål Erling Martinussen (20%)

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Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KREFT-Offentlig kreftprogram

Aspects of breast cancer risk: subtypes of breast cancer, relation to angiogenic factors and gene-environment interactions

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Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MAMMOGRAFI-Evaluering av Mammografiprogr

Mammography screening in Norway. Evaluation of health effects

Dette prosjektet inngår i evaluerinen av det norske mammografi-programmet. Hovedhensikten med dette prosjektet er å undersøke om mammografi-screeningen har påvirket dødeligheten av brystkreft i Norge. Forsker Harald Weedon-Fekjær har vært finansiert av midler fra NFR for å gjøre dette arbeidet sa...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SYKEFRAVÆR-Forskn.om årsaker til sykefrav

Individual, cultural and structural causes for sick leave and exclusion from work in early age (18-40 yrs) (UngTrygd)

The aim of this joint project is to study why an increasing proportion of the young population is either not included, or prematurely excluded, from the working force, thereby accounting for long term (life long) disability pensions or social security sup port. The present network of researchers ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PES-INST-Prosjektetablererstøtte EU (FoU)

ICT based solutions for prevention and management of chronic conditions of elderly people

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Maternal Corticotropin-releasing hormone levels during pregnancy and offspring levels of Adiponectin

Obesity and it's consequences are emerging as a prime threat to health in the western world. During the last 20 years the prevalence of obesity has increased in all age groups, including children. This has led the search for etiological clues. Several st udies have shown an association between l...

Awarded: NOK 33,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Forskningsleder Siri Forsmo

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Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage