Concentration of research efforts/Strategy

This provides the cornerstone of the Department´s research and forms the basis of current scientific activity which is thematically divided into areas concerning neurobiology, cancer research and heart- and circulation research. Research at the Department of Biomedicine has a translational bias, i.e. it is directed toward studies on human diseases.

The Department´s research activities are concentrated in areas that encompass functional genomics (FUGE), translational research, medical image processing, nanoscience and common diseases of the population. Core facilities, PROBE (proteomics) and MIC (Molecular Imaging), are important resources in the concentration of our research efforts. The same is the case for the flow cytometry facility which is currently being built up. The Department has received 4 (of a total of 41) FUGE-grants.

The Department has also been awarded 40% of the total funding devoted to Bionanotechnology by the Norwegian Research Council. It is also necessary to point out that bioinformatics has become a more and more important tool with respect to accomodating for the increasing amount of data that is generated by using top modern techniques in molecular biology.