The first NORBIS international travel grants have now been awarded!

In this very first round of grant applications, the NORBIS board has decided to generously award a total of 450 000 NOK, to support the research exchange of nine NORBIS PhD students. Each student will receive funding corresponding to the newly established NORBIS international travel grant guidelines, which may be found here.

The nine successful student are as follows:

Name	Institution	Destination	Department	Duration
Francesco Delogu	NMBU	Braunschweig, Germany	Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research	3 months, Summer-Fall 2017
Teshome Mulugeta	NMBU	Zaragoza, Spain	Laboratory of Computational and Structural Biology	3 months, April-May and Aug-Oct 2017
Mahsa Jalili	NTNU	University of Aberdeen, UK	Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences	3 months, Aug-Oct 2017
Kjersti Rise	NTNU	University of Iceland, Reykjavik	The Centre for System Biology	3 months, Apr-Jul 2017
Vasundra Touré	NTNU	Paris, France	Institut Curie and ENS Paris	6 months, Sep 2017-Feb 2018
Miriam Gjerdevik	UiB	Newcastle University, UK	Institute of Genetic Medicine	3 months, Sep-Dec 2017
Anna Frank	UiO	Cornell University, New York, USA	Department of Biological Statistics and Computationl Biology	6 months, Jan-Jun 2018
Aliaksandr Hubin	UiO	Medical University of Vienna, Austria	Department of Medical Statistics	3 months, Sep-Dec 2017
Chloe B. Steen	UiO	Stanford University School of Medicine, San Fransisco, USA	Department of Medicine and Stanford Cancer Institute	6 months, Aug 2017-Jan 2018

 

We wish you all good luck, and look forward to reading your reports when you return!