Focus on NMC as a model for national collaboration

Nasjonalt samarbeid tuftet på frihet og god kjemi

Nasjonalt samarbeid er like viktig i forskning som det er vanskelig i praksis. Noen får det til: FUGEs teknologiplattform for mikromatriser. Vi samlet plattformens ledelse for å fravriste dem noen nasjonale (samarbeids-) hemmeligheter.

Head of the RR/UiO Microarray Core Faclity

Microarray technology is a priority area at the Norwegian Radium Hospital since 1999. This local effort has been headed by Ola Myklebost, and has resulted in a core facility that produces human spotted microarrays for local and external users.

More about the DNR Microarray Project

The new RR/UiO Facility offers extended services using also commercial array technology.

See the RR/UiO Core Facility web page

Apr 11, 2003

Project leader of the FUGE platform for microarray technology

Oslo Region

First leader of the FUGE microarray platform, run by the Norwegian Microarray Consortium. This platform offers nation-wide microarray services and courses, and provides computing infrastructure to facilitate the use of these technologies. See mikromatrise.no for more information.

Oct 31, 2003

The Microarray Project at Tumour Biology

What is curently part of a national technology platform, started up as a collaboration between the groups of Fodstad, Hovig and Myklebost, who submitted an application to the Norwegian Cancer Society for funding of the first 2700 genes and production of a home-made arraying robot coordinated with the group of Astrid Lægreid at the University in Trondheim (NTNU).

The robots were funded, and we got a generous 5 Mkr grant together, and could start a closely coordinated effort to establish this technology in Norway.

We got invaluable help from our scientific collaborators in the group of Paul Meltzer at the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda just outside Washongton DC. Later we were joined by the group of Vidar Steen at the University of Bergen, and the Norwegian Microarray Consortium was formed.

After its birth at the Department of Tumour Biology, the Microarray project was defined as an Institutional Priority Area at the Radium Hospital, which secured further critical funding and support.

From 2002 it was part of the FUGE Microarray Platform, which was extended after excellent international reviews.

We now also run the RH Microarray Core Facility (MACF) funded by the UiO/RH Research Board

Jan 9, 2004

Microarray Project mentioned in Nature

Ola Myklebost

Nature writes:
"A core element of one of the most ambitious pan-Scandinavian initiatives has informal origins. A loose coalition among Nordic resource centres for microarray production and analysis emerged out of contacts made by Ola Myklebost, professor of biochemistry at the University of Oslo, and Åke Borg, an associate professor in the oncology department at Lund University, during their careers."

Link to the Nature article

Read more about The Nordic Microarray Collaboration

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