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PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Developing diagnostic tools for measuring DNA integrity in patients at the level of individual cells.

...tools for diagnostics, prediction, monitoring and assessment of therapeutic response, which will...the likely response of patients to chemo- and radio- therapy, evaluating the predictive...testing effects of pharmaceutical intervention and identifying individuals at risk of...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2017-2018

Location: Oslo

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Ice-wedges as late Pleistocene winter paleoclimatic archives on Prins Karl Forland (RIS ID: 12313)

...from Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice-core records, late...thermal contraction cracking in the ground and the filling of the cracks from snowmelt in the...paleoclimate from ice-wedges in Russia, Alaska and Arctic Canada. However, the potential of...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Svalbard

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Unravelling the mechanisms controlling droplet growth dynamics during condensation on micro-patterned surfaces

...desalination systems, enhanced water harvesting and efficient thermal management. Here, dropwise...The problem lies on the lack of understanding of the physics controlling this loss of...this area have not been given enough attention and they should be exploited further. I will use...

Awarded: NOK 10.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Dynamic integration of proton conducting systems in an intermittent energy landscape

...are diffusing rapidly into electrical grids, thereby...for existing technologies, organizations and infrastructures. Renewable energies are...generation cycles that do not follow the demand cycles, energy storage solutions are therefore...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT) for improved treatment of cancer and brain diseases

...based on clusters of microbubbles (MBs) and microdroplets, developed by our collaborator...ultrasound (FUS) is applied to the targeted pathology whereby the MBs transfer energy to the...in size, these large bubbles transiently lodge and block blood flow. Further exposure of FUS...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BEHANDLING-God og treffsikker diagnostikk, behandling og rehabilitering

Microbiota-based SCReening of Anal Cancer in HIV-infected individuals (SCRAtCH)

...among men who have sex with men (MSM) and in women with history of anogenital HPV...lesions (HSIL), a cancer precursor, using anal cytology. While this approach is highly...bacteria amplify HPV-associated cancers and contribute to impairment of mucosal immunity...

Awarded: NOK 0.59 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo

SYNKNØYT-Progr.f.synkrotron- og nøytron

Novel materials for hydrogen storage studied by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

...addresses novel materials for hydrogen storage and in particular aluminium-, magnesium- and...with synchrotron X-ray diffraction. High-resolution X-ray diffraction is important for...studies will be carried out in order to understand absorption/desorption processes, effect of...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

An interdisciplinary data-driven approach to resolve sigma-factor-specific promoter dependency in bacteria.

...study, SiD, that will enable improved understanding of transcriptional regulation in bacteria....coupled to in vivo screening efforts with DNA and RNA sequencing. The experimental efforts will...species, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas putida and Bacillus subtilis, at the single-nucleotide...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

E!5173 Double Sided Silicone Strip Detectors for micros tissue autoradiography

...detector (DSSD), advanced software modules and analysis protocols. Further more to use this...early validation of in vivo behavior of drug candidate antibodies, 2) evaluation of in situ...biomarkers for in vivo imaging of tumor and infla mmation disease. The new workbench will...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Oslo

BIA-Brukerstyrt innovasjonsarena

FunBiotics: Efficient production of antibiotics from fungi

...a collaboration between Xellia Pharmaceuticals and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry. Its primary...production of 1-2 selected antifungal echinocandins. The market for antifungal drugs is...Development of fungal production strains and fermentation processes for antibiotics are...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Ocean - sea-ice - atmosphere teleconnections between the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic during the Holocene

...changes in the Earth System in a quantitative and process-oriented way in order to improve...of interhemispheric teleconnections and their influence on climate during last 11 700...the project will employ synchronized high-resolution marine data along with ice core data...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NANO2021-Nanoteknologi og nye materiale

Phonon lifetimes; unifying inelastic neutron scattering measurements with first-principle calculations

...develop a coherent strategy to compute, measure and analyse phonon lifetimes and thermal...to predict new materials for thermal management and yield the possibility to predict new or better...thermoelectric materials containing non-toxic and earth-abundant elements. This coherent...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Rogaland

BIOT2000-Bioteknologi 2000

Structure-function studies of chitinases and engineering of variants with improved properties

...in, for example, shrimp shells, insect cuticles and fungal cell walls. Chitinases are of...(2) they have anti-fungal activity, and (3) chitinase inhibitors inhibit growth of...chitinases from Serratia marcescens, ChiA and ChiB. The catalytic mechanism and the...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2004

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Translating Weather Extremes into the Future - a case for Norway

...adaptation. This requires local, actionable and reliable climate information to support the...that scenarios tailored to a specific region and stakeholder in combination with numerical...like, hence facilitating adaptation planning and implementation. Climate change projections...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

The Norwegian Sequencing Centre - Phase II

...two partners behind NSC - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary synthesis (CEES) and Dept. of...leading scientific environments within biology and medical genetics, respectively, and are both...as well as internationally - from both public and private sector. We have experienced a huge...

Awarded: NOK 41.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2021

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

HESTEFORSK Is 'Jumpers Knee' a clinical entity in horses? An investigation of patellar desmopathy as a cause of stifle lameness H-18-47-393

...human athletes, characterized by nerve ingrowth and neovascularization of the patellar tendon...has not been scientifically investigated. By using objective motion analysis methods, we have...'push-off' hind limb lameness in sport horses, and pilot data from these horses suggests that...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Akershus

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

4D Computed Tomography of Porous Materials

...sophisticated computer algorithms. High-resolution microscopy has until recently been...imaging method relying on synthesizing a high-bandwidth image from a series of low-bandwidth...(CXDI) schemes in terms of high resolution and fast reliable operation, because of the...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Geomagnetic storms, and the identification of source and loss processes of ring current particles

...ring current. The aim is to identify the source and loss processes for the ring current particles....main satellites. Other satellites as ACE, IMAGE and POLAR will complement the main satellites....for studying the correspondence between high and low altitude magnetospheric conditions....

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

The role of vegetation distribution on facies architectural and sequence stratigraphic development of the Palaeocene Firkanten Formation.

...to climate change, with the geomorphology and position of the shoreline being closely linked...is ideal because it consists of coastal and terrestrial deposits punctuated by abundant...on outcrops near to Longyearbyen with high-resolution sedimentology aided by 3D digital...

Awarded: NOK 63,999

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Svalbard

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

CosmoglobeHD: Mapping the universe from the Milky Way to the Big Bang in high resolution

...is the oldest source of light in existence, and our most precious resource for understanding...- a direct probe of cosmic inflation and primordial gravitational waves - and spectral...B-mode experiments with high spatial resolution and spectral distortion experiments with high...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

JPIFACCE-Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change

Improving National forest inventory-based carbon stock change estimates for greenhouse gas inVENTories

...land in Europe annually sequesters atmospheric...potential of carbon sequestration on forest land in climate change mitigation strategies is not...carbon stock change estimates of living biomass and forest mineral soil using current...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Akershus

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

Defective mitophagy in Alzheimer Tau pathology: Mechanistic studies and AI-based drug development (‘AM-AI’)

...affects over 35 million people worldwide and causes formidable economic challenges. Since...mechanistic studies in order to better understand the underlying causes of AD, and to discover...Mitochondria are constantly exposed to stress and damage; thus, dysfunctional mitochondria must...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

KREFTSATS-Særutlysning kreftmidler, historikk

Developmental biology of solid tumours may pave the way for advanced medicine

...(CRC), testicular germ cell tumour (TGCT), and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour...through morphologically def ined stages, and the stepwise molecular biology of these...new insights to tumourigenesis in general and have impact on the molecular understanding of...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Oslo

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

...for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth...high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep...an accuracy of 0.01°C over a 200 km distance. Stand-alone acoustic tomography systems in Arctic...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

PETROMAKS2-Stort program petroleum

SmartRocks - Artificial Intelligence improving Digital Rock Technology

...derivation of rock properties from high-resolution images (Digital Rock Technology) is...used to characterize reservoirs production and predict their performance. Petricore and all...on the characterization of rock properties and active players on the development of the...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Ancient DNA of NW Europe reveals responses to climate change

...Andøya (69 °N) is a key area for data on...refugium at a time when almost all of Scandinavia was covered by ice. The sediments...in one of the lakes yielded DNA of pine (Pinus) and spruce (Picea) dated at c. 22,000 and 17,500...

Awarded: NOK 0.22 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Mass Transfer in Slag Refining of Silicon

...works quite well, operational throughput and capacity is inherently restricted by cycle t...metal will take place continuously. The design and dimensioning of a continuous slag treatment...to extensively investigate the mass transfer and kinetics of slag-metal reactions in the...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Agder

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Space and ground-based observations of the solar atmosphere

...here apply for funds to observe, analyze and understand the very fine substructure of...region between the radiative interior and the convective zone) by a dynamo process. The...convection zone, erupts through the photosphere and into the outer solar atmospheric layers. This...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Lamin-genome interactions in the development of Familial Partial Lipodystrophy

...tissue, resulting in partial lipoatrophy and severe metabolic disorders. FPLD2 is caused by...mutation impairs lamin A interaction with DNA and nucleosomes in vitro, and in patient cells...genes, deregulating transcription, and leading to defects in adipogenesis and fat...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Upper ocean circulation from the Sentinel and Earth Explorer satellites - sensor synergy for advanced knowledge and understanding

...this project, we plan to take advantage of new and historic high-resolution satellite remote...of warm Atlantic Water to the high latitude and Arctic Ocean and is a key component in...climate in northwestern Europe, the Barents Sea and Svalbard. The circulation also plays a key...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland