We are happy to announce that the NORBIS board has awarded a total of 275 000 NOK, to support the research exchange of five NORBIS PhD students during 2018. Each student will receive funding corresponding to the NORBIS international travel grant guidelines, which may be found here.

 

The five successful students are as follows:

Name	Institution	Destination	Department	Duration
Asan Mohideen	Nord University	St.John’s, Canada	Memorial University of Newfoundland	4 months, Sept 2018 – Jan 2019
José Cerca	UiO	Edinburgh, UK	Edinburgh Genomics, University of Edinburgh	3 months, Nov 2018 -Jan 2019
Martin Wohlwend	NTNU	Lausanne, Switzerland	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	6 months, June – Nov  2018
Zhi Zhao	UiO	London, UK	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,	4 months, July – Oct 2018
Yaxin Xue	UiB	Berkeley, USA	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	6 months, July 2018-Jan 2019

 

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