Sleep apnea is a prevalent nocturnal breathing disorder and causes a high burden to the affected individuals, as well as to society and economy. However, current diagnostic methods for sleep apnea are complicated and labour-intensive processes involving various shortcomings related to measuring, analysing and reporting of data.
The NORDTREAT project will build on the achievements within recent large-scale European initiatives that includes cross-disciplinary collaborations between academia, hospitals, biomedical companies and patient organisations. The overall aim is to improve Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients' prognosis and quality of life by introducing a novel personalized medicine algorithm that is based on recently generated -omics data.
NordForsk is issuing a call for proposals on Japan–Nordic collaborations on health data research. The call has a total budget of approximately NOK 25 million, and the deadline for the call for proposals is 7 October 2021.
The Nordic countries combined have allocated more than NOK 3 billion for COVID-19 research. The bulk of funding has targeted medical research, and Sweden is by far the largest funder.
This report maps initiatives by research funding organisations in the Nordic countries, government agencies as well as private foundations, to further research related to COVID-19.
The Nordic countries are each dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in their own ways, but each government enjoys a great deal of public trust in its decisions. Nevertheless, the pandemic gives rise to a number of ethical issues
