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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Spontaneous preterm birth: a systems biology approach in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study

sPTB is an unresolved common complex condition in perinatal medicine and is related to long-term disabilities such as cerebral palsy, cognitive and respiratory problems, which will affect the infant in every day life situations. The pathophysiology of sPT B remains poorly understood. Infection an...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Translational Research in Lung Cancer and Palliative Care - from genomics to symptom control

This project will perform functional genomic research with a translational approach that will bring new scientific knowledge into the health care system. The project will identify gene polymorphisms and gene expression profiles that may confer developmen t of lung cancer, and act as a prognostic...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Long-term ecological effects of sheep grazing in alpine ecosystems and its integration with management

We propose to further develop two unique experimental studies in contrasting alpine ecosystems (running from 2000 in Setesdal Vesthei and 2002 in Hol) to address several important new research questions: The overall aim is to facilitate sustainable manage ment of sheep grazing in alpine habitats ...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Securing fish-farming technology and operations to reduce escapes (SECURE)

Solving problems related to escapes is dependent on a combination of research into several technological disciplines and biological knowledge related to the behaviour of fish in net pens. SECURE will address these challenges by bringing together expertise in structural engineering, hydrodynamics...

Awarded: NOK 13.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Consistency in Environmental Law

Økt bevissthet rundt miljøutfordringene har resultert i en forholdsvis omfattende utvikling av miljølovgivning både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Til tross for denne utviklingen er miljøproblemer som blant annet forurensning av luft, vann og land, tap av biologisk mangfold og forringelse av våre v...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: Norms, green agents and environmental policy

Economic theory and policy prescriptions traditionally rely on the assumption of selfish, rational agents. Clearly, this approximation is descriptively inaccurate in the context of environmental issues. Recent advances in theory and methodology now allow economists to rigorously treat social norm...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

GLOBHELS-Global helse

Indoor air pollution. A neglected poverty related cause of global ill health -impl. for health and society of promoting clean fuels in China

Smoke from solid fuels (biomass and coal) burned in households is among the leading health threats for people in developing countries, and is responsible for more than 1.6 million premature deaths annually - a quarter of which occur in China. Dependency o n these fuels thus constitutes a main str...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Global gene expression of human and rat brain: an integrative genomics study of CNS functions and genetic susceptibility in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a serious psychotic disorder ranked among the 10 most disabilitating disesases worlwide (WHO) with a lifetime risk of 1% in the general population. Despite decades of research, the understanding of underlying biological mechanism re mains inadequate and fragmentary and trea...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Increasing basic knowledge on muscle abnormalities in intensive production systems

Abnormalities in fish muscle represent not only an ethical and welfare issue, but may also have a negative impact on economy and market acceptance due to growth impairment in affected fish, elevated mortality and reduced fillet quality. Alertness and know ledge on this field is also important for...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Expansion Strategies for Local Food Enterprises

The overall objective of this project is to contribute towards increased value added in local food enterprises, by obtaining new knowledge about the conditions for expansion, and how the industries can solve challenges they face in different phases of exp ansion. Sub-goals: 1. Conduct an analys...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norwegian bread wheat with high baking quality and sustainable disease resistance through marker-assisted selection (188291).

Norway has in recent years become almost self-sufficient in wheat thanks to better and more adapted varieties. While nearly all high quality wheat for bread making was imported a couple of decades ago, the milling and baking industry now depend on quality wheat produced in Norway. To achieve bre...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Conservation Covenants in Norway (CoCoviN) - moderating conflicts, reducing bio-diversity loss and improving resource management?

Our main aim is to study the use of voluntary, but formally binding private-public partnership in nature conservation and management. Our hypotheses are: 1) Conflicts around designation of nature conservation areas are seldom founded on disagreement abo ut preservation goals; meaning: The confl...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct) Proposal for a continuation of the Centre for 2008-12

NorStruct will continue to offer state of the art services and collaboration in structural biology techniques to the Norwegian research community. The expertise and services will have a solid foundation in in-house research and national and international partners. The services will be organized i...

Awarded: NOK 23.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A node of the FUGE platform for proteomics at the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo

Specialized proteomics service will be provided by the node at the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo for i.) quantitative proteomics ii.) clinical proteomics, and iii.) cell death proteomics. Quantitative proteomics will be performed either in cell culture by stable isotopic labeling of amino acids du...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Effects of catchment processes and forest management in boreal forests on Hg and MeHg in surface waters

Mercury (Hg) pollution is becoming an environmental problem of great concern in boreal areas across the entire northern hemisphere, especially because of bioaccumulation of methylmercury (MeHg) in fish and consequences of this toxic substance for human he alth. There is an urgent need for better ...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Team incentives, human capital and job satisfaction

The purpose of this research project is to better understand the causes and nature of teamwork and team incentives, and how these can promote, or obstruct, performance and job satisfaction. Team production is one of the defining characteristics of a firm, and there seems to be a consensus that t...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

VAM-Velferd, arbeid og migrasjon

Omstilling

Prosjektgruppen vil ta utgangspunkt i de områdene i programnotatet som er omtalt som "omstillinger og mobilitet" og mekanismer som påviker inkludering og utstøting i arbeidslivet. Vi har organisert deltemaene under overskriftene 1) Kostnader ved omstillin g 2) Omstillingsprosesser og 3) Årsaker t...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Restriction of lipid deposition in the liver of cod by use of bioactive substances in salmon oil and vegetable feed ingredients.

Use of high-energy feeds has been of major importance for the development of cost effective farming of fast growing salmonids. High energy diets contain high levels of lipids, and such diets cause development of a large fatty liver in cod. More than 80% o f total body lipids in cod are in fact fo...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLINISK-Klinisk forskning

Is beta cell rest by insulin treatment beneficial in preserving beta cell function in latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult ( LADA)?

Latent Autoimmune Diabetes LADA) er en hyppig form av diabetes. Det er vist at mellom 5 og 10 % av alle pasienter med diabetes har LADA. Selv om denne formen av diabetes altså er hyppig er mye mindre kjent om hva som er beste behandling enn hva som er kjent for type2 diabetes (aldersdiabetes) ell...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Membrane trafficking in immunity and tumour suppression

Intracellular membrane trafficking plays key roles in cell signalling and innate and adaptive immunity. Endocytosis and subsequent endolysosomal trafficking of growth factor receptors constitute a crucial mechanism for receptor signal attenuation and tumo ur suppression. For innate immunity again...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Norwegian Proteomics Consortium - Bergen

PROBE, the Norwegian proteomic platform, was established in 2002 by the Norwegian Research Council under the Functional Genomics Initiative (FUGE) to provide the Norwegian scientific community access to the best in proteomic technologies and competence. Located within the Institute of Biomedicine...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A FUGE Nor-MIC Node in Live Cell Imaging and Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis in Plants

There is a growing need to understand fundamental plant processes at the subcellular level. With respect to this it is of paramount importance to the Norwegian research community that a National Imaging Service and Training facility exists to meet these f uture demands. In addition a Molecular Im...

Awarded: NOK 1.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Tracing viral disease dissemination in aquaculture: an interdiciplinary approach between molecular virology and dispersal modelling

Viral diseases are a large problem in Norwegian salmon farming imposing economic as well as welfare-related challenges to the industry. In order to control viral disease dispersal, knowledge on the dispersal pathways of the disease agents and key factors affecting the interaction between the dise...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The effect of dietary carbohydrates on muscle metabolism, connective tissue composition and fillet quality in cod (Gadus morhua L).

Post mortem softening of fish muscle and occurrence of gaping are major problems for the fish industry. Muscular connective tissue provides mechanical integrity, rigidity, and elasticity to skeletal muscles. Extracellular matrix (ECM) represents an import ant part of the connective tissue, and ch...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Multiple instruments and the design and implementation of effective energy and climate policy

This project analyses the economic consequences of using multiple instruments towards energy and climate policy targets. The project studies the main political causes for deviating from the simple cost efficient recommendations. A key objective of the pro ject is to identify effective policy meas...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Detailed studies on biomass gasification in a TGA coupled with advanced gas analysis

Conversion of biomass to a producer gas has many advantages. A gas is easier to handle and transport, it can be cleaned before combustion (i.e. compact cleaning), and it can then be used directly in e.g. engines, gas turbines and fuel cells for electricit y generation. Alternatively, it can be pr...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate agreements

This project aims to contribute internationally to the knowledge and understanding of the current climate regime, the climate negotiations, international environmental agreements more generally, and those aspects having to do with compliance, enforcement, participation, and regime design in part...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Twelve Step based self-help groups for substance related disorders

Substance dependency deeply influences peoples lives in complex ways. There is typically a need for treatment and rehabilitation in a long-term perspective. The public treatment systems have deficient capacity to give follow ups. This is particularly true for patients undergoing detoxification, ...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Agder

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Pilot study: prevalence of alcohol and drugs at the workplace

Alcohol and drug abuse affects society in many ways, e.g., health, social relations, safety, and productivity at the workplace. Alcohol is more significant in this respect than drugs because the use of alcohol is common and accepted by society. Testing of oral fluid (saliva) may be used to dete...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

MILPAAHEL-Miljøpåvirkning og helse

Hearing loss and tinnitus: genetic and environmental effects

Depending on the criteria used 1/3 - 1/6 of the population experience hearing impairment. Tinnitus is defined as the sensation of sound without any outer sound stimulus present. Environmental risk factors such as noise exposure are frequently described fo r both the diseases. A genetic component ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Oslo

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