Life Sciences and Biotechnology

From top athletes to heart patients: Everyone knows that high intensity training benefits top athletes -- but NTNU researcher and medical doctor Øyvind Ellingsen has just started on a study of how intensive exercise can help patients with chronic heart failure, too. Read a profile of Ellingsen and a description of his study in the March 31, 2009 issue of Circulation magazine.

NTNU has selected six strategic research areas where interdisciplinary science and industry partnerships make for world-class research and new technologies.

See: Marine and Maritime Technology
Medical Technology

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norwegian Polar Institute, Imperial College London and more: Centre for Conservation Biology

FMC Biopolymer AS (NovaMatrix), AlgiPharma AS, Advanced Biopolymers AS, ProBio Nutraceuticals AS and more: the Norwegian Biopolymer Laboratory

The Institute of Marine Research, Akvaforsk, AKVASmart, Helgeland Plast and more: Centre for Research-based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology (CREATE)

• Algae capsules may revolutionize treatment of Type 1 diabetes
• Diagnostic test traces mercury, toxic chemical exposure
• 21st century aquaculture
• Biopolymer breakthroughs