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February 2025: Welcome meeting for LEAD AI researchers

Lisa and Bengt Erik participated in the welcome meeting for the LEAD AI postdoctoral development program which is funded by the MSCA program from the EU.

February 2025: NorHTE featured at UiB infrastructure day

UiB infrastructure day presentation by Bengt Erik Haug: NorHTE en ny nasjonal infrastruktur som skal bidra til nyskapende kjemisk eksperimentering i forskning, undervising og innovasjon (NorHTE is a new national infrastructure that will contribute to innovative chemical experimentation in research, education, and innovation).

January 2025: Visit by the Minister for Research and Higher Education

The Norwegian Minister for Research and Higher Education Minister Oddmund Hoel visits HTE@UiB to learn about our robotic equipment, our plans for establishing NorHTE as a national infrastructure, and how high-throughput experimentation can accelerate discoveries in chemistry. Professor Bengt Erik Haug (left) and Oddmund Hoel (right). Photo by Jin Sigve Mæland (UiB).

January 2025: Oposition leader Erna Solberg visits HTE@UiB

Erna Solberg, leader of the political party “Høyre” and former Prime Minister of Norway visits HTE@UiB to learn about automation of chemical experiments, how high-throughput experimentation can accelerate scientific discovery, and our plans for establishing the national infrastructure, NorHTE. Erna Solberg (left) and Prof. Bengt Erik Haug (right). Photo by Eivind Senneset (UiB).

December 2024: Ludvik defends his PhD-thesis!

Congratulations to Ludvik O. Espleand for successfully defending his PhD thesis entitled Exploring FabF as a new target for antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Assay development, fragment screening and hit optimization.

Committee members:
Professor Maria Paola Costi, University of Modena and Reggio Emili (right)
Associate Professor Eirik Sundby, Norwegian Univerisity of Life Science (second from right)
Associate Professor Matthias Gregor Stadler (left)
Leader of the disputation ceremony:
Professor Magne O. Sydnes (second from left)

September 2024: NorHTE funded!

Our application to establish the national infrastructure Norwegian Open Laboratory for High-Throughput Experimentation and Scale-up (NorHTE) is one of 20 applications that will receive funding from the Research Council of Norway latest infrastructure call.

NorHTE will be lead by Professor Bengt Erik Haug and will be established with nodes at Department of Chemistry UiB and the Department of Chemistry at NTNU where Professor John deMello will act as co-leader.

NorHTE is funded with 75 million NOK over four years.