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Welcome to NCMM! Please get familiar our onboarding guide: This wiki and its related documents.

Getting here

NCMM is located in Forskningsparken/Oslo Science Park - the address is Gaustadalléen 21. You can get here by public transport, bike or car - but note that parking could be an issue. Oslo Science Park has a parking house, where you pay by the hour. If you are employed at NCMM you can park for free in certain areas across the bridge (UiO campus) with a UiO parking permit. Parking the bike is free, but it often fills up right outside the entrance. Therefore note the possibility to park your bike on the other side of the building (facing Blindern T-bane), and at the front - on the other side of the street, by UiO: Institutt for informatikk. Oslo Science park offers facility for cleaning the bike and there are even showers downstairs.

NCMM mandate and mission

Founded in 2008, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) is an international biomedical research centre, with the overall objective of translating basic medical research into clinical practice. NCMM aims to promote multidisciplinary collaborations that bring together basic and translational research. NCMM focusses particularly on disease mechanisms where Norway has clear strengths and investigates mechanisms of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and CNS-related disease and immune disorders.

NCMM is a part of UiO's interdisciplinary focus on life sciences, and has been hosted by the Faculty of Medicine, UiO, since 2015.

NCMM is part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine which was established in 2007 as a joint venture (2008-2012) between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Universities of Helsinki, Oslo and Umeå. A Danish node (Dandrite) joined the Partnership in 2013. The Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine is a major strategic player in Europe’s molecular understanding of disease mechanisms, thanks to its complementary research expertise, outstanding research infrastructures and industry collaborations.

Expectations

Mandatory introduction to NCMM

All new students and personnel must attend an introduction meeting to NCMM. Here you will get information about fire safety, HSE and lab safety. Schedule an introduction meeting with the HSE- coordinator. In order to finish your training you must also answer one or more questionnaires depending on your tasks and responsibilities.

Access office/labs

• To get in & out of Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken) you need an access card.
• To get access to the NCMM laboratories and some office wings, you need a key tag.
• To get access to your office, printer rooms etc. you need a key.

Contact person for access at NCMM is Carlos Rodríguez

• For access to NCMM and UiO areas outside Oslo Science Park, and to use the University of Oslo Library, you need an UiO employee ID card issued by SiO Customer Service.

IT access

Group leaders are responsible for ordering relevant hardware for each employee to enable them to do their job.

To get your user account and credentials, please contact the IT team: Melaku Tadesse or Pavel Zarva.

Arriving from abroad

If you come to NCMM from abroad, UiOs International Staff Mobility Office (ISMO) has useful information.

New at UiO

• Working hours
• Leave of absence
• Parental leave
• Holiday (New in Norway? Please read up on holidays - and note that first year working in Norway you will not get paid holidays!)
• Self-service portal
• Tax deduction card
• Getting around
• Booking meeting rooms → NCMM has 3 meeting rooms: Kilo, Micro and Milli that all can be booked in Outlook.
• Travel
• Employee benefits