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I am writing to congrats all the former and current summer/exchange students of the Fang Laboratory for their amazing achievements:

• Our 2022 summer student Espen Opseth (bachelor student at UiO, Norway) is enjoying his summer training on ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Summer student Marisa Khanokwan Børthus just finished her summer intern here and she was so pleased in learning the ways to ‘quantify ageing’. They were in the Norwegian newspapers everywhere in this summer! Their daily mentor is/was Dr. Shu-qin Cao. https://twitter.com/TheFangGroupUiO/status/1540222019102457856
• Our 2021/2022 ERASMUS student Beatriz Escobar Doncel (bachelor University of Alcalá (UAH), Spain) is working on several interesting projects related to mitophagy and Alzheimer’ disease. Her mentors have been Alice Rui-xue Ai and Maria Jose Donate.
• Our 2021 exchange student Bjoern Olaisen (currently bachelor student at King’s College London, UK) is doing an excellent summer intern in Prof. David Sinclair Laboratory at Harvard Medical School: https://twitter.com/TheFangGroupUiO/status/1553134804073418752. His daily mentor was Dr. Sofie Lautrup.
• Our 2022 summer student Mats Landfald (bachelor student at UiO, had half a year exchange at UC Berkeley) said he had a wonderful training experience at the Fang lab with the learning of many techniques from scratch. His daily mentors were Dr. Janet Zhang and DPhil student He-ling Wang. https://twitter.com/TheFangGroupUiO/status/1551342384415399938
• Our 2021/2022 ERASMUS student Mr. Adrian Moliere (Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany) just got an offer of a master programme at ETH, Switzerland. Big congrats Adrian! His daily mentors were Dr. Janet Zhang and DPhil student He-ling Wang. https://twitter.com/TheFangGroupUiO/status/1513509937506398209
• Many of our former students are also doing good job: https://evandrofanglab.com/alumni/

Thank you to all the daily mentors for your time, patience, and big efforts in training the ‘new comers’! And big congrats to the exchange/summer students: hard work pays off.  

on the 31st May 2022, we celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Akershus Universtiy hospital (AhUs) to be affiliated to the University of Oslo (UiO).

PROGRAM JUBILEUMSSEMINAR
Tid: 31. mai 2022, kl 16.00 – 18.00
Sted: Store auditorium, Akershus universitetssykehus (Ahus)
Møteleder: Trygve Holmøy
Lett servering fra klokken 15.45 (baguetter, kaffe/te/mineralvann)
Program:
16:00 – 16:05 Velkommen v/professor og leder Campus Ahus Torbjørn Omland
16:05 – 17:00 Forskning ved Ahus – noen smakebiter
Seniorforsker Jorun Rugkåsa, HØKH
Førsteamanuensis Evandro Fei Fang, EpiGen
Førsteamanuensis/overlege Harald Hrubos-Strøm, Øre-Nese-Hals-avdelingen
Professor/overlege Anne Hansen Ree, Onkologisk avdeling
Professor/overlege Vegard Bruun Bratholm Wyller, Barne- og ungdomsklinikken
17.00-17.15 Pause
17.15-18.00: Hvordan styrke Ahus som universitetssykehus
Rektor Svein Stølen
Administrerende direktør Øystein Mæland
Leder Campus Ahus Torbjørn Omland

Paneldiskusjon
19.00: Middag på Hotel Bristol for påmeldte.

Evandro Fang’s talk: video 1, video 2.

On the 21st March 2022, a scientific birthday gathering was held for Prof. Dr. Vilhelm Bohr in celebration of his lifelong contribution to science, teaching, and mentoring. it was held on the top floor of the Maersk Tower at the Universtiy of Copenhagen. Over 10 Fang group members (and associated members) flew from Oslo and London to attend this unique event. Some pictures and videos (from Evandro Fang or his team members) are listed below for good memory.

Additional materials are

Prof. Dr. Vilhelm Bohr’s speech in the dinner: here

Prof. Dr. Jon Storm-Mathisen’s singing: here

Evandro Fang’s speech in Prof. Dr. Vilhelm Bohr’s dinner: here

Evandro Fang’s question to the ageing research ‘big wigs’ on their answers to the use one to two sentences to convince to the students to choose ageing research for their career development: here

2nd Dec 2021, the Akershus University Hospital

We are please to announce that the Fang group first PhD student Shu-qin CAO (co-mentoring with Prof. Tewin Tencomnao at Chula University) had successfully defended her PhD in a 3-hour meeting. The Committee unanimously scored her PhD with ‘Distinction’, a rare and the highest honor.

The Fang and Labbadia laboratories with a high caliber of international experts on ageing have published a solicited review on autophagy and healthy ageing in Nature Ageing. Synthesis of recent research on #autophagy in health, #aging and disease and discussion of how drugs that modulate the process of autophagy could be used to suppress age-associated diseases.

The complete author list: Yahyah Aman^1,3†, Tomas Schmauck-Medina^1†, Malene Hansen⁴, Richard I Morimoto⁵, Anna Katharina Simon⁶, Ivana Bjedov^3,7, Konstantinos Palikaras⁸, Anne Simonsen⁹, Terje Johansen¹⁰, Nektarios Tavernarakis^11,12, David C. Rubinsztein^{13, 14}, Linda Partridge^{3, 15}, Guido Kroemer^16-20, John Labbadia^3,* and Evandro F. Fang^1,2,*  

The full manuscript is here: download or https://rdcu.be/ct5GC

The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS) is the oldest Academy in Norway. This year´s Gunnerus Medal, the highest medal of honor by DKNVS, goes to the Academy members May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser. The Mosers were the 2014 Nobel Laureates for Medicine or Physiology, for their discovery of the grid cells, a group of neurons in our brain enabling one finds the way back home. 

The DKNVS’s scientific award to younger researchers this year goes to Heidrun Åm (Social Science) and Evandro Fei Fang (Medical fields). The two researchers receive NOK 75,000 each.

挪威皇家科學與文學學會（DKNVS）是挪威最古老的院士學院。今年的Gunnerus勳章(DKNVS最高榮譽)，授予學院院士May-Britt Moser和Edvard Moser。 Mosers是2014年諾貝爾醫學或生理學獎得主，他們發現了網格細胞 (grid cells)，這是我們大腦中的一組神經元帮助人們记忆回家的路。

DKNVS今年向年輕研究人員頒發的科學獎授予了HeidrunÅm（社會科學）和Evandro Fei Fang（醫學領域）。兩位研究人員各獲得75,000挪威克朗。

http://www.dknvs.no/priserutmerkelser/vitenskapelige-priser/