EU-funded scientist among Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine
The European Commission announces the following news on 7 October 2019:
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2019 has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Ny kunnskap om kreftceller i oksygenfattig miljø, ny metode som hindrer spredning av kreft samt innovasjon. Det gigantiske UiO-styrte EU-prosjektet METOXIA er et som et Kinderegg; flere godbiter i ett.
EU-funded researchers have developed an innovative new cancer treatment. Interest from the pharmaceutical industry has been so great that the research team has set up a company dedicated to bringing their innovations to market.
A total of 448 publications with acknowledgement to the METOXIA project, by project partners, have been listed in the EUs Participant Portal for the period 2009 - 2014. A list of the publications is now available on the website under About METOXIA-Publications.
The METOXIA project was in operation from February 2009 until July 2014. It is officially finished as an EU-funded project, nevertheless important and related research will continue with the partners of MEOXIA, and new EU-funded projects may in the future be created with partners from the METOXIA group.
For information on the outcome of the project see METOXIA final summary of main findings and results
New methods to detect cancer micro-environmental parameters are developed alongside new therapeutic principles in the form of chemicals as possible new chemotherapeutic drugs and new methods to improve radiotherapy
A summary of the METOXIA project's progress is now available on our website under About METOXIA - Project progress . The summery is the official publishable summary as provided in our 2nd scientific report covering the period up untill 31.01.2011.
METOXIA General Assembly meeting starts Tuesday morning 12th June at 09:00, and ends 16:30 on Wednesday afternoon.
Practical information, as sent out by e-mail, and latest programme is now available on our member's area (members only - for access contact hilde.hvistendahl@mn.uio.no)
Looking forward to seeing you in Bratislava!
The periodic report for the 3 period covers activities during 01.02.2011-31.1.2012.
The reporting deadlines are in February.
Please see the information on reporting as sent you by e-mail on 17. and 18. January. The same information is also available on our website, see: members area/periodic reports/3rd report 2011/12.
If you need access to the members area, please e-mail hilde.hvistendahl@mn.uio.no.It is easily granted now with our new system.
METOXIA partners have been invited to the internal member site of METOXIA and asked to create a "WebID". If you have received such an invitation, please accept within a week.
Finally, our website is beginning to take form. We will in the weeks to come publish more content.