The Veterinary Institute has a main responsibility for securing the health and welfare for animals, as well as one health perspectives. To be able to fulfill this purpose, veterinary diagnostics must be moderized to make health and welfare more efficiently measurable, research tools and methodology must be expanded, and new alternatives to animal experimentation must be found. Preparing for the future in veterinary science and diagnostics require the ability to keep up front with modern methodology and keep track with the progress in human medicine and biomedical sciences. The challenge for Veterinary sciences is to cover health monitoring in a vaste number of species, farmed and wild, faster and with more reliable information. BIO-Direct is a strategic internal project that aim to help the Veterinary Institute move towards these ambitious future goals.
BIO-Direct relies on increased internal cross-diciplinary collaboration, aim to boost use of new and modern equipment in the new VI facilities in Ås, and the integration of responsible research and innovation (RRI) to ensure that research relevance and purpose is in line with the strategy of the institute. The methods included in the project range from multi-omics for biomarker identification, T-cell characterization, CRISPR/Cas9 establishment and transfection optimization, epithelial cell line characterization, organ-on-a-chip, and bead-based luminex immunoassays. BIO-Direct also educate biotechnology and molecular biology master students in collaboration with NMBU and UiO.
Partners
- Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- University of Oslo
- UiT Arctic University of Norway
- National Institute of Public Health
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