Preparations are well underway for Horizon Europe, the EU’s ambitious framework programme for research and innovation 2021-27. We will look at the structure of the new programme and what is new and where the main opportunities lie for the Icelandic science and innovation community.

Who is responsible for good communication and how can we build good channels within our university community? Let start the conversation!

In this seminar, Magnús K. Magnússon will discuss the regulation of fetal hemoglobin and present findings from a new GWAS of fetal hemoglobin based on blood RNA sequencing.

Here we will put this discovery in context with prior discoveries and risk of CRISPR-Cas9 discussed briefly.

As a newly recruited faculty member, this presentation will give an overview of the research topic and some details of previous work. Briefly, the role of biological sex and the effects of the steroid 17beta-oestradiol in cardiac (patho)physiology of humans and experimental animals will be discussed.

Using topical application to deliver therapeutic concentrations of drugs to the interior of the eye, particularly to the posterior segment, remains very challenging.

In this seminar Hrafnhildur Linnet Runólfsdóttir will discuss the prevalence of APRT deficiency, long-term renal outcomes and the effects of treatment in patients with the disorder.

In this talk Sigurður Rúnar Guðmundsson will present the work I was involved in during my PhD with emphasis on correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) analysis of phagophores and autophagosomes of both selective and un-selective autophagy 

Classical scrapie is a contagious, fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects sheep. It has been endemic in Iceland for about 140 years.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 was first identified at the end of 2019 and has as of now by 16th of January 2021 caused close to 95 million cases and over 2 million deaths.