Magnus Steigedal Director NTNU Health NTNU

Magnus Steigedal Director NTNU Health NTNU

Main profile in science and technology Academic breadth: humanities, social sciences, medicine, health sciences, science of education, architecture, fine arts and performing arts Headquarters in Trondheim with campuses in Gjøvik and Ålesund

Norway s largest university More than 40 000 students 6700 employees, 4053 in scientific positions 362 doctoral degrees awarded in 2017 7210 completed bachelor s and master s degrees (2017) 8 faculties and 50 departments and NTNU University Museum Operating income: NOK 7.6 billion Cross-disciplinarity mandate from the government The national university for technology Educates 85 % of all Masters of technology and 95 % of all Ph.D.s in technology in Norway One in five inhabitants in Trondheim is a student 40 international master s degree programmes

Knowledge for a better world NTNU 2018 2025

Strategic areas of research 2014 2023 NTNU Energy NTNU Health NTNU Oceans NTNU Sustainability The strategic research areas aim to: Work together across disciplines, solve complex challenges of great importance Face global challenges with an interdisciplinary and flexible organization Strengthen cooperation with the world of work and our innovative capability Increase NTNU s share of international research funds

Enabling technologies The enabling technologies will: Strengthen and prioritize outstanding long-term and generic research Coordinate and develop internationally leading research infrastructure Create a platform for education at a high international level

Our collaboration is ranked as #1 in the world (THE) Everyday collaboration in 27 SFI, FME and SFF and 23 Gemini Centres, which includes more than 1000 employees Business and public sector Value creation Collaboration in 18 H2020 projects with more than 300 links with international project partners 200 laboratories in collaboration NTNU Education and research SINTEF Contract research Collaboration on ECCSEL ERIC, European research infrastructure for carbon capture and storage Joint publication of scientific articles, 1600 articles during 2012 2017 Teamwork model extensive cooperation with the private and public sectors through joint projects and research centres For more information: https://www.ntnu.edu/research/partnership

HEALTH FOR A BETTER WORLD >6500 students 1800 staff 100 mill. USD governmental 75 mill. USD external funding (2017)

Nobel Prize 2014 Professors May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser and John O Keefe were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2014 for the discovery of neurons that enable a sense of direction, "the GPS of the brain". Moser and Moser: For the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, which generate a coordinate system in the brain John O Keefe (University College, London): For the discovery of place cells in the hippocampus, which recognize unique locations in the landscape

The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience / Centre for Neural Computation Vision: To understand the emergence of higher brain functions in any system in any species One of 20 centres funded by the Kavli Foundation at recognized universities around the world

CEMIR Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research How can inflammation be linked with so many different diseases, such as atherosclerosis, cancer, type II diabetes, Alzheimer s disease, inflammatory bowel disease and obesity? CEMIR s hypothesis: The key to curing chronic inflammatory diseases is in very early phases of the inflammatory response.

K.G. Jebsen centres K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology Mainly funding for maritime and medical research HUNT data Studies genetic variation at population level Digitizing genetic material, stringent requirements for ethics and data security K.G. Jebsen Center for Exercise in Medicine (CERG) Studies the effect of exercise in cardiovascular disease treatment Studies: HUNT4 (fitness), Generation 100 (seniors) and others 4x4, exercise programmes, PAI, max. heart rate calculator, fitness calculator K.G. Jebsen Center for Myeloma Research Identify subgroups of patients with myeloma for better treatment of the individual patient Systematic collection of bone marrow samples Drug research

Centres for Research-based Innovation NTNU hosts 7 SFI centres CASA Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis CIUS Centre for Innovative Ultrasound Solutions The centres work together with leading companies in various sectors and industries icsi Industrial Catalysis Science and Innovation Metal Production MOVE Marine Operations in Virtual Environments The centres could be key contributors to change in Norway SAMCoT Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology SUBPRO Subsea production and processing

HUNT Helseundersøkelsen i Nord-Trøndelag Longitudinal, prospective design Repeated measurements Linkage by PIN to a variety of registry data and EHR form the local hospitals 75 000 65 000 50 000 60 000? HUNT1 1984-86 HUNT2 1995-97 HUNT3 2006-08 HUNT4 2017-18 HUNT HUNT -Levanger Trondheim

Strategic research area 2014 2023 Innovative solutions to complex challenges Director Magnus Steigedal AREAS Health promotion, disease prevention and empowerment Gaming technology in rehabilitation Diagnostics and treatment Precision medicine more effective treatment GOALS Develop new expert communities and new skills, emphasizing sustainable health services Help to improve global health ICT, welfare services and organization of health services Inequalities in health effective introduction of technology Better resource utilization Effective treatment of patients https://www.ntnu.edu/health

Model based, noninvasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease A Digital Twin for Essential Hypertension Management and Treatment -My Medical Digital Twin Improved patient flow and resource utilization at St.Olav s hospital. Patient logistics in a regional setting: Efficient patient treatment Computational Semantic Memory for Continuous Sepsis Monitoring Bringing Precise Decision Support to the Platform My Medical Digital Twin Platform.

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