Combined with insights into the social, environmental, economic and demographic context, our effort will yield a deep quantitative understanding of past pandemics that will allow us to draw a detailed picture of pandemic and epidemic diseases in the pre-modern era.
New safety assessments of epilepsy medication are initiated because a Nordic research study concludes that epilepsy medication during pregnancy can lead to autism and intellectual disability in children.
NordForsk is issuing a call under the Nordic-Russian Cooperation Initiative in Higher Education and Research, and encourages research projects with partners in Greenland to apply for funding with an additional fund. The call has a budget of approximately NOK 2 million and the deadline is 17 October 2019.
Interdisciplinary research projects on everything from narwhal tusks to asylum policy and pandemic history are delivering game-changing results for the Nordics. This is the conclusion from committee head Jan Philip Solovej.
The Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) Initiative on Food, Nutrition and Health is a joint effort to enhance the scientific quality and international visibility of Nordic research within this field.
