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FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Tissue Factor siRNA for treatment of melanoma metastasis

The project described herein covers the research and initial preclinical part of the project of developing a drug based on small interfering RNAs (siRNA) targeting Tissue Factor, a molecule known to be involved in the processes of blood clotting, metastas is and angiogenesis. The project has emph...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Cooperative Mining of Independent Document Repositories

Document repositories contain a wealth of knowledge that can be discovered through text-mining techniques. With the advent of all-digital management processes, new types of repositories have emerged, for example personal document repositories like email folders. The typical approach to mine coll...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Predicting Consequences of Climate Change on Population Fluctuations of Birds and Mammals in Time and Space

The aim with the present project is to analyse how expected changes in climate will affect the population dynamics of birds and mammals, and how these dynamical influences will cause shifts in the geographical distribution of abundances within the distrib utional range of a species. Our approach ...

Awarded: NOK 14.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives

The issue of identity, or rather identities, has figured prominently in recent years in various disciplines in poststructuralist approaches to the discussion of the self and the other. A discourse unit that provides an excellent locus for investigating is sues of culture and identity is the narra...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Digitale objekts plass i barns sosiale og språklige danning i barnehagen

Det er stor interesse for å ta i bruk digitale verktøy i barnehagen, og IKT er formelt i introdusert overfor barnehagen blant anna gjennom ulike formuleringar i Rammeplan for barnehagens innhold og oppgaver. Dette tross det faktum at det finns lite nors k forsking på området. Slik vi ser det e...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Veien inn i skriftspråket for barn med hørselshemming. Muligheter for læring gjennom samhandling i barnehage og skole.

Prosjektet har som hovedmål å frambringe kunnskap om sammenhengen mellom læringsmiljø og det hørselshemmede barnets vei inn i skriftspråket, slik at denne kunnskapen kan tilføres lærerutdanningene. De fleste hørselshemmede barn går i dag i vanlige barneha ger og skoler. Prosjektet har et design s...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Developing the next generation of oral vaccines for salmonids using plastids in plants

The following programme will develop a new concept of oral vaccines for fish using plastids as bio-factories in plants. The technology will allow the insertion of any gene or combination of genes into a plant plastid genome, resulting in a high level prot ein expression (approx 20% of total cellu...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ACTOR: Arctic Climate Change, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation

Northern Norway and Svalbard are experiencing rapid changes in the climate and these changes have environmental, societal, and economic consequences. Hence, climate change will most likely have considerable impact on the regions' tourists and tourism indu stry. The main objective of this project...

Awarded: NOK 12.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Sensing Music-Related Actions

This interdisciplinary project, combining scientific, technological and artistic methods, proposes three crucial topics for future development of multimodal media devices: 1) the importance of action-sound couplings for both performance and perception of music, 2) the control potential of human b...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Development of high througput affinity protemics to search for drug targets in cancer.

Antibody array technology, mass-spectrometry and molecular biology techniques are combined to develop a new platform for screening of drug targets in cancer. The technology allows large-scale analysis of protein networks with high sample throughput. The p roject will develop large-scale analysis ...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A National Service Platform for Global Analysis of Genome Structure and Function. The Norwegian Microarray Consortium (NMC)

The FUGE Microarray Platform is run by the Norwegian Microarray Consortium (NMC), based on a formal institutional collaboration between RR/UiO, NTNU, and UiB. We offer in-house production of standard and custom arrays, expression and genomic profiling ser vices (RNA or DNA in-DATA out) with diffe...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Wireless Interference-Limited high-throughput Access Technologies and applicatIons

This is a continuation of the fruitful collaboration between TKK, LU and NTNU established in the WILATI project. The research on MIMO WLAN is extended to modem improvements, cooperative multiuser MIMO and spectrum sensing as well as new application areas, like localization. The clear trend in ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Parameter optimization in preparation of membranes for osmotic processes

For osmotic processes high flux of solvents combined with high rejection of solutes are necessary. TFC-membranes will be focused because the separation and support membranes are prepared separately, hence their influence on the performance of the two memb ranes and the total TFC-membrane will be ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Barnehagens møte med barn og familier som opplever samlivsbrudd

Et stort antall norske barn i barnehagealder opplever hvert år at deres foreldre skiller lag. Vi vet fra nasjonal og internasjonal forskning at samlivsbrudd utgjør en risiko for barnets utvikling og tilpasning. I FoU-prosjektet som foreslås her ønsker vi å rette særlig fokus på barnehagens muligh...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Norwegian plant transcriptional profiling centre

The Norwegian Arabidopsis Centre (FUGE-NARC) was established as a part of FUGE I. NARC provided national service in plant functional genomics and the service activity was shared between Univeristy of Life Sciences (UMB, transformation/genotyping), Univers ity of Oslo (Y2H, in situ hyb) and Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Cancer-targeted T cell Receptors - the next generation immunotherapeutic drugs

The aim is to generate recombinant T cell receptors (TcRs) that recognize cancer cells. DNA encoding the receptors forms basis for novel drugs for immunotherapy of cancer. Two strategies are followed to select T cells with the desired receptors: 1) T cell s that recognize common cancer proteins, ...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

A NATIONAL SERVICE PLATFORM FOR GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF GENOME STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: THE NORWEGIAN MICROARRAY CONSORTIUM

The FUGE Microarray Platform is run by the Norwegian Microarray Consortium (NMC), based on a formal institutional collaboration between RR/UiO, NTNU, and UiB. We offer in-house production of standard and custom arrays, expression and genomic profiling ser vices (RNA or DNA in-DATA out) with diffe...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Towards a systems level understanding of responses to endogenous DNA damage in Caenorhabditis elegans

The impact of genomic instability on human health underscores the importance of understanding the mechanisms that coordinate responses to DNA damage in order to preserve genomic stability. There is a disparity between our knowledge of the cellular respons es to endogenous DNA damage and the impac...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

IPY Svalbard Course 2008: A multidisciplinary science - management cross-talk course on IPY projects and sustainable management of Svalbard

The target group of the IPY Svalbard Course 2008 are executive officers and managers in Norwegian governmental administration and the industry, and the aim of the course is to give the participants an introduction to the natural conditions, history, polit ics, environmental monitoring, industrial...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Local NOR-MIC BioImaging node at the University of Tromsø

At the University of Tromsø we now establish a core facility for BioImaging. This core facility will be equipped with instruments aimed at imaging, flow cytometri, cell sorting and plate/membrane readers of fluorescent and chemiluminescent signals. For th is core facility we will have two full-ti...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Proteomics Core Facility at the University of Tromsø as a node in the national consortium of proteomics platforms (NorProteomics)

The core facility for Proteomics in Tromsø has been fully operational since the end of 2004. The main purpose of the facility has been to serve research labs in the FUGE North region. The facility has 3 Mass spectrometer systems from Waters/Micromass. A M ALDI Micro MX, a Q-TOF Ultima Global with...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Protein-protein interactions at atomic levels

Our DNA is every day subjected to external and internal damaging agents and understanding the mechanisms of DNA repair at a molecular level is increasingly important in order to address future challenges for the human health. This project aims to reveal n ew information about molecular mechanisms...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SMADRIFT-Ordning for finansiering av små driftsm.

Små driftsmidler - Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen

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Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

SMADRIFT-Ordning for finansiering av små driftsm.

Små driftsmidler - Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

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Awarded: NOK 0.72 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

VERDIKT-Kjernekomp.og verdiskaping IKT

Privacy-preserving seamless digital infrastructures

In this project we will work on security and privacy in the context of seamless digital infrastructures. We will study security protocols for a privacy-preserving mobile phone network and study general infrastructures based on transaction authorisation wi th respect to privacy. In order to do thi...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The CIGENE node of the Norwegian Sequencing and Genotyping Service Platform

CIGENE's mandate in the FUGE I period has been to: A. Establish and maintain a national core facility providing: (i) - a high-throughput SNP-typing service for human, animal, plant and microbial materials, (ii) - key competence concerning identification a nd methodological integration of experime...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Channel 2 application for continuation of FUGE MIC Trondheim in FUGE II period (2007-2011)

MIC Trondheim wants to continue in the FUGE II period with MR as the core technology, and will expand in capacity with acquisition of new MR equipment, and expand the high-level competence necessary for offering a wide variety of methods tailored to the u ser's research tasks. A goal is to establ...

Awarded: NOK 5.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Ultra-high throughput sequencing platform

Recent technological breakthroughs making possible low cost ultra-high throughput gene sequencing (UTS) open up a new era within biology. It is now possible to sequence a bacterial genome in less than a week, a human chromosome in 3-4 weeks or generate m illions of metagenomic sequences in days....

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

PRAKUT-Praksisrettet utdanningsforskn

Barnehagen i endring. Inkludering i praksis

Norsk senter for barneforskning. NTNU (NOSEB) har i samarbeid med Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag (HiNT) etablert en tverrfaglig forskergruppe som skal framskaffe og formidle forskningsbasert og praksisnær kunnskap om barnehagen som en integrerende samfunnsin stitusjon og inkludering i praksis. Med f...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Host-virus interactions in Atlantic salmon

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) are viruses causing threatening diseases in Norwegian aquaculture. Certainly, one of the most challenging problems in designing control strategies against these viruses is to define the specific factors, both in...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo