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GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Community-based organizing against HIV and for rights among same-sex attracted men in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

There was very little focus on same-sex attracted men (SSAM) and transgender women (TGW) in HIV programming and research in sub-Saharan Africa the first two decades of the HIV epidemic. This project was developed against the backdrop of the knowledge gap that had resulted from this, and has had a...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Reconstruction of Environmental Histories Using Long-Lived Bivalve Shells in the Norwegian Arctic (RELIC)

Analysis of accreted calcium carbonate parts of marine animals has proven useful as a tool in reconstruction of marine environmental histories. In particular, the shells of long-lived bivalve molluscs have provided insight into recent and prehistoric clim atic conditions of tropical and temperate...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Plant biomass studies in the Arctic (ArcticBiomass)

The main purpose is to establish a joint American-Norwegian research team dealing with research on the combination of field and satellite remote sensing based above-ground plant biomass, vegetation productivity and growing season mapping in northern Alask a and in Svalbard, as well as on a circum...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Tilleggsfinansiering for to stipendiater for Marie Curie prosjekt CLARA

Hovedmålet med prosjektet er å dekke underskudd i Marie Curie prosjektet grunnet forskjell mellom tildeling fra EU og norsk tarifflønn for stipendiater.

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Bioactive Interfaces II

Fouling represent a major challenge leading to increased costs for the marine and offshore industry. Toxic compounds are today employed to prevent ongrowth on marine surfaces. The development of "green" antifouling compounds from marine organisms has thus a huge potential as several marine organ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Kit to guide treatment management of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This is translation project with emphasis on chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) where 2.2 million people in Europe suffer from the disease which for many can have devastating concequences. We have little knowledge of the etiology and inflammatory me chanisms in the early phase of the diseas...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Developing Novel Application Routes for Chito-Oligosaccharides Produced from the Marine Biopolymer Chitin

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Akershus

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Timing of ecological processes in Spitsbergen fjords - SpitsEco

Through the ARCTOS network (http://www.arctosresearch.net/), Norwegian and Russian scientist has developed a successful long lasting collaboration. Russian scientists and PhD students has participated in a number of projects such as PanAME (IPY project 26 ), Cleopatra (NFR funded 2007-2011), and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Isfjorden - past and present climate

The project will enhance the collaboration between Russia (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute [AARI], St.Petersburg State University [SPbSU]) and Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute [met.no]) within several of the prioritized topics in the cal l: Climate change, effects of climate cha...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

The Oceanography of Grønnfjorden and Billefjorden (GrønnBille)

During the project meeting hosted by UiT and Akvaplan-Niva in Tromsø 23.04.2014, relevant work from Isfjorden, Billefjorden and Grønnfjorden, with special focus on historical and existing data where presented. The Russian and Norwegian partners gave an overview of stations, campaigns and existing...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Fate of COPePod secondarY production in a chancing Arctic

A warmer climate with less extensive ice cover will lead to higher total primary production in the Arctic, which has the potential to increase the overall secondary production. Altered climate conditions will also affect timing of primary production, with consequences for the grazers of marine e...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Svalbard

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

ACOBAR-II: Analysis and publication of results from the Fram Strait tomographic experiment.

As part of the EU projects DAMOLCES (2005-2010) and ACOBAR (2008-2013) two major acoustic experiments were carried out in the Fram Strait. The aim was to provide accurate measurements of acoustic travel times over 100-300 kilometer sections for inversion and assimilation into ice-ocean models. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

The Development of Proprietary Targeted Inhibitors of DNA Replication and Repair in Bacteria as Novel Broad Spectrum Antibiotics

Forskere ved NTNU har utviklet et syntetisk peptid som blokkerer et nukleært protein nødvendig for DNA reparasjon og replikasjon i humane celler. Vi har funnet at dette peptidet har en antibakteriell aktivitet, og siden bindingssetet for dette peptidet er konservert mellom ulike bakterier, så ve...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Microorganisms in the arctic: major drivers of biogeochemical cycles and climate change

Arctic soils are currently the focus of intense research due to their recognized vulnerability to climate change, in particular with respect to the unknown consequences of warming on the enormous carbon reserves that are currently sequestered in permafros t. In order to understand how carbon proc...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Small transmembrane peptides for treatment of pathogenic bacteria.

The business concept of this project is the introduction of a new concept of antimicrobial treatment with a novel method of action to treat infectious diseases and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. The invention is a new class of small and extremely toxic peptides that rapidly kill the bac...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Extented biotarget validation studies for the specific inhibitor of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling OD270

The Wnt / beta-catenin signaling pathway is central in a variety of tumors. However, despite the biomedical importance of this pathway in particular in cancer metabolism and metastasis, there is at current no Wnt / beta-catenin inhibitor that has been cleared for clinical use. We have identifie...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Bioactive peptides in tunicate biomass

Fishmeal has traditionally been the major protein source for carnivorous fish. However, it is likely that the world's supply of fishmeal will not be sufficient to meet future demand. Globally there is acute need for new protein sources .This proof of prin ciple proposal intends to support the com...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

New one-step process for the preparation of targeting stealth nanoparticles for drug delivery and molecular imaging

For many diseases, there is a high need for novel disease site focused treatments, as the most efficient drugs are so potent that they also lead to severe systemic toxicity and side effects. Nanoparticles and -capsules can be used to encapsulate drugs and imaging agents for targeted treatment an...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FORFI-Kunnsk.gr.l.f.forskn.innov.pol

Innovation - a new guide

The purpose of the project is produce a paper that covers the entire area of innovation studies, with particular emphasis on the achievements that have been made, the implications for policy and issues of relevance for the future research and policy agend as that deserve further scrutiny. The int...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Creating efficient vaccine candidates against Tuberculosis using mutant Mycobacterium smegmatis

One of the leading causes of mortality in low and middle income countries continues to be tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Recently, it has been shown that a nonpathogenic mycobacterium strain, Mycobacterium smegmatis (Msmeg), mutated in a protein secretio...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2020

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

SeeTheChild - Mental child health in Uganda

SeeTheChild (STC)- mental child health in Uganda is a research project on mental health among children in Eastern Uganda. It had four main objectives of which the first is closely linked to a larger study: PROMISE Saving Brains (SB) in Burkina Faso and Uganda. The other 3 objectives have independ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Compounds that regulate phospholamban phosphorylation with possible cardioprotective effect in the post-infarction heart

Successful acute trombolytic treatment of myocardial infarction (MI, 1.2 mill cases i 7 markets) creates more damaged hearts and a medical need for better post-MI treatment. The adrenalin-beta-adrenergic receptor-cAMP-protein kinase A signalling pathway r egulates heart rate and contractility. Al...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Learning from the locals: A metagenomic investigation into the plant biomass degrading capacity in Norwegian native herbivores.

Understanding the enzymology of plant biomass conversion is a key Issue In the world's desire to establish a sustainable bio-based economy. Currently available enzyme technology is insufficiently effective, and several fundamental key questions to how enz ymes and plant cell walls interact remain...

Awarded: NOK 0.21 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2015

Location: Akershus

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Generation of DNA vaccines specifically targeting cross-presenting DCs, and evaluation of their efficacy against Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major infectious diseases affecting third world countries today with about 10 million new infections and 1.5 million TB related deaths each year. While the BCG vaccines offers some protection when given early in life, this protections vanes with time. As a conseque...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GLOBVAC-Global helse- og vaksinasjonsforskn.

Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research

Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research (The Forum) The Forum was initiated in 2005 as an interdisciplinary network of individuals and Norwegian institutions working with, or having an interest in, global health and health research. The Forums statutes were approved by the first General Asse...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Optimization of a diagnostic hypoxia test for detection of aggressive cervical cancer

During the last months of the project, our work has been focused on the development of our new discovery in the project, which is a hypoxia test based on the methylation level of the signature genes.Work has beeen performed to evaluate the robustness, sensitivity and specificity of a methylation ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

BIOTEK2021-Bioteknologi for verdiskaping

Method for identification of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and 5-methylcytosine at single base resolution

Studying the code of chemical modifications in DNA and RNA is important for understanding fundamental biological processes in health and disease. In this project, we develop strategies for dissecting the different function of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) in DNA. Our preliminary data support r...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DIP-Design Pilot

Tjenestedesign for en bedre skole - DP114

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Awarded: NOK 0.28 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Toppfinansiering IIIOS

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Awarded: NOK 0.94 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PETROMAKS-Maksimal utnyttelse av petroleumsreserver

Environmental knowledge management for enhancing integrated operations

The recent availability of offshore deepwater installations and fiber-optic infrastructures to connect them to centers onshore in real time has made it possible to conduct oil and gas activities in highly fragile areas where the human presence is not poss ible (think for instance of the Arctic re...

Awarded: NOK 14,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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