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UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

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

Feilernæring er en stor bekymring blant ungdom i lavressursland som India og Nepal. Dårlig ernæring i ungdomsårene øker risikoen for tidlig utvikling av sykdommer som diabetes, hjerte- og karsykdommer og psykiske helseproblemer, med langvarige effekter på den generelle helsen. Skoler kan spille e...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

UTI-Diag: Reducing the burden of antimicrobial resistance – urinary tract infection using innovative and scalable rapid diagnosis

Antimikrobiell resistens (AMR) er en utfordring for global helse, som vi alle bør ta på alvor. Urinveisinfeksjoner (UVI) er blant de vanligste infeksjonene globalt, og påvirker livskvaliteten betydelig samt medfører både kliniske og økonomiske utfordringer. Hvert år blir ca.150 mill individer dia...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Innlandet

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

Fungal Genomics and Antagonistic Community Interactions

Fungal pathogens within the Candida genus, including C. albicans, C. parapsilosis and C. auris, represent a growing public health concern on a global scale. Resistance to key antifungal drugs, particularly azoles and echinocandins, is on the rise. Increased virulence or resistance is driven by m...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Development of a public health approach to address syndemics & shared multilevel determinants in mental health & chronic illness in Nepal

This pre-project aims to establish an equitable collaboration with two key partners in Nepal: Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences as a research partner and the Health Section of Dhulikhel Municipality as a non-research partner. The collaboration will focus on developing a main project...

Awarded: NOK 0.27 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Innlandet

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Tracing Health Impacts of the Plastic Value Chain on Vulnerable Populations in Kenya

Human health impacts associated with the plastics value chain are only beginning to be understood. Vulnerable groups—such as formal and informal workers across the plastic value chain including waste pickers, as well as women, children, and persons with disabilities—often bear the brunt of these ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

TacDe: Tackling Dengue in a Changing Climate: A Bangladesh Perspective

Climate change is having a significant global impact on dengue transmission, the most common mosquito-borne illness worldwide. Bangladesh is increasingly at risk due to the combined effects of climate change and the rising incidence of dengue. In 2023, the country reported the second-highest numb...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

A Sustainable AIoT Based Nutritional Recommender for Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes among Adult Population

This SUSCARE project addresses the call for proposals on global health by proposing an international partnership between Norwegian and Colombian Universities, Research Institutes, and International Diabetes Federation, Colombia. The primary objective of SUSCARE is to establish a long-term partner...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Akershus

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Early intervention for common mental disorders in conflict-affected of Ethiopia

Traumatic experiences can cause anxiety and distress, but no evidence-based preventive interventions are readily available to victims in the aftermath of crises, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs). In conflict-affected areas, prevalence rates of mental health problems a...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Vestland

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

An international collaboration on adolescent's health situation in Zambia, Tanzania and Norway.

The partners of the present pre-project want to enhance knowledge and build capacity in youth health across all three partner institutions. This will be done by a) disseminating of updated knowledge on adolescent's physical, mental, and social health through 2 PhD projects based on data collected...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Building Sustainable Partnerships for Community-based Mental Health Interventions in Ethiopia and South Africa

Mental disorders are among the leading public health challenges, with widespread impacts on individuals, families, and communities, especially in low-resource settings. Vulnerable populations, including internally displaced persons, returnee migrants, individuals living in poverty, and disadvanta...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Investments, Goals and Outcomes for Children Living with HIV (IGOHI)

Worldwide, nearly 2 million children are living with HIV, with 160,000 new infections annually. Untreated, HIV progresses to AIDS, which kills 100,000 children annually, mainly in African countries (UNAIDS 2022). These deaths are now largely preventable due to the widespread availability of free ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Climate Change Impact on Mental Health: The Philippines Case

The Philippines is frequently facing many extreme weather events that seriously affect mental health. The Mind4Climate pre-project aims to address the growing mental health crisis in the country associated with climate change. This project seeks to establish a partnership among researchers, healt...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Equality in Health Access for Disabled Persons

The AfroAccessAbility project addresses critical health disparities experienced by disabled persons in Ghana and Tanzania, with the overarching goal of improving health outcomes for disabled persons in the Global South. Despite some advancements, disabled persons face significant barriers to heal...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Establishing sustainable partnerships for preventing childhood lead poisoning in Viet Nam

Lead exposure is a critical global health issue impacting about one-third of children globally, with Southeast Asia with Southeast Asia facing the greatest burden. Despite this, research in many low- and middle-income countries, including Vietnam, is sparse. In May 2024, UNICEF and the US Agency ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Creating a sustainable partnership to effectively address primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease in adolescents in Nepal

This pre-project aims to create a sustainable alliance of partners, both inside and outside academia, to focus on primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease in adolescents in Nepal. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of disability...

Awarded: NOK 0.26 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Integrating Economics into One Health Governance in Zambia

Summary One Health is a collaborative approach that addresses health challenges affecting humans, animals, and the environment. Zambia's reliance on agriculture and natural resources, coupled with poverty and limited healthcare infrastructure, makes it particularly vulnerable to health threats. O...

Awarded: NOK 0.29 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Strengthening Climate-Health Alliances: Equitable Partnerships for Heat Adaptation Interventions in Africa

Despite the growing need for heat adaptation solutions to limit adverse health impacts, implementation in LLMICs remains limited and research fragmented. Increased implementation requires knowledge of effective, relevant, mature, and feasible measures, and of possible local barriers and solutions...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Mitigating Health Risks of Climate Change through Sustainable Forest Restoration in Africa

The pre-project aims to foster equitable collaboration with new research partners from low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) and local user partners. This involves forming a transdisciplinary consortium and further developing the proposal for the Collaborative and Knowledge-building Glo...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Building Partnerships to Implement a Scalable Model for Standardized Surgical Training and Knowledge Dissemination in LLMICs

The aim of this project (within the scope of the seedfunding) is to create a consortium of stakeholders with extensive expertise and experience in surgical training in order to implement an innovative surgical educational model in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia. We will build on our accumulated ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

"Pre-HIRM"- Health outcomes among internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar post-military coup

The main HIRM project aims to address the health disparities among internally displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees worsen by Myanmar's ongoing conflicts and political instability. This pre-project HIRM is preparing for a major application focused on sustainable health interventions, aiming for t...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HELSEFORSKNING-HELSEFORSKNING

OH-AMR-Diag: Novel technological solutions for rapid detection and screening of AMR from a One-Health perspective

Antimikrobiell resistens (AMR) er et av de kritiske helsetruende problemene for mennesker og dyr over hele verden. Feil bruk av antibiotika koster hvert år mellom 1,3 og 5 millioner menneskeliv globalt og det fører til mer resistens. Hvis ikke det kommer under kontroll, anslås det at AMR kan forå...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Innlandet

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Decentralization of hepatitis B care in sub-Saharan Africa

296 millioner mennesker lever med kronisk hepatitt B (KHB), og ubehandlet vil 15-40% av disse dø av komplikasjoner til KHB. Antivirale medisiner hindrer sykdomsprogresjon og død, men i fattige land er det nesten ingen som mottar slik behandling pga kompliserte behandlingsretningslinjer og mangel ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestfold

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Children’s Lung Study in Dhulikhel A longitudinal multidisciplinary approach in children’s lower respiratory tract infections

Nedre luftveisinfeksjoner er en betydelig global årsak til dødelighet og sykelighet, og forårsaker omtrent 30–50 prosent av besøk til helsefasiliteter og 20–30 prosent av innleggelser på sykehus i Nepal for barn under 5 år. Virale luftveisinfeksjoner tidlig i livet kan også bidra til utviklingen ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Rapid diagnosis of key aetiologies of sepsis and associated infections in LMICs using CRISPR-based assays

Invasiv bakterieinfeksjon utgjør en betydelig trussel globalt, med de høyeste forekomstene i lavinntektsland. Økningen i infeksjoner forårsaket av antibiotikaresistente bakterier rammer disse landene spesielt hardt, da resistente bakteriestammer ofte har en mer utbredt sirkulasjon her sammenligne...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Emollient therapy for very low birthweight infants (<1500g) in Uganda: effects on survival, infection, growth and development

Tenk deg dette: Hvert år blir 15 millioner babyer født «for tidlig» eller premature, og mer enn 70 % av dem blir født på steder som Afrika sør for Sahara og Sør-Asia. Disse bittesmå barna står overfor en stor risiko – å bli født for tidlig er en viktig dødsårsak for barn under 5 år over hele verd...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Vestland

INNO-NAERING-INNO-NAERING

Modulær prosess for fleksibel produksjon av komposittrørkoblinger

Rørkoblinger for distribusjon av drikkevann og gass i plastkompositt er et miljøvennlig alternativ til tradisjonelle messingkoblinger med et betydelig lavere CO2 fotavtrykk over levetiden, men tradisjonell fremstillingsteknologi gjør det for kostbart å ta frem et komplett koblingsprogram. Prosjek...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

GoFec - Rapid detection of E.coli

GoFec representerer et nytt system som muliggjør rask felttesting av vann i både utviklingsland og utviklede land. GoFec er et testsystem for on-line deteksjon av Echerichia coli (E. coli). GoFec kan gi svar innen 8 til 24 timer sammenlignet med 24-48 timer for de tradisjonelle filtreringsbaserte...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

KSP: Industrial-scale production of diatoxanthin – a high-value product from microalgae with anti-cancer and anti-inflammation properties

I DIATOX genediterer vi mikroalger for å muliggjøre industriell produksjon av det sjeldne pigmentet diatoxanthin. Forskning tyder på at diatoxanthin har antioksidant- og anti-inflammatoriske egenskaper, og i tillegg egenskaper som potensielt kan forhindre kreftutvikling. Diatoxanthin finnes kun ...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

UTVIKLING-UTVIKLING

Implementing a life course approach in antenatal and postnatal care settings for prevention and reduction of non-communicable disease risks

De siste tiårene har vi på globalt nivå sett en kraftig økning i ikke-smittsomme sykdommer (non-communicable diseases = NCDs), først og fremst diabetes, hjerte- og karsykdommer, kreft, luftveissykdommer, og psykiske lidelser. NCDs er en stor utfordring for personen som bli syk, men også for helse...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Biomarker for personalized therapy of breast cancer by de-escalating adjuvant chemotherapy

Forskere fra OUS og UiO har identifisert en unik biomarkør hos pasienter med brystkreft av typen basal-like, som indikerer en gunstig prognose. Denne gruppen av pasienter representerer i stor grad de med trippel-negativ brystkreft. For tiden gjennomgår mange av disse pasientene kjemoterapi før el...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Oslo