New at NCMM
Welcome to NCMM! Please get familiar our onboarding guide: This wiki and its related documents.
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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
Our Purpose → NCMM is a driving force in developing precision medicine through basic science breakthrough discoveries in the molecular mechanisms of health and disease. We are committed to excellence in research, training, and translation.
NCMM operates as a greenhouse for talented early career group leaders and trainees attracted internationally by providing a stimulating and supportive environment. We focus on nurturing these exceptional young researchers and supporting the growth of their research groups. We help these groups secure funding, foster their research productivity, and guide their leadership development. We strive to be a multidisciplinary life science collaboration hub at international, national, and local levels.
Promoting Collaboration → We believe in the power of collaboration. NCMM actively encourages multidisciplinary partnerships that merge basic and translational research. By bringing together experts from diverse fields, we aim to expedite the translation of scientific discoveries into practical clinical applications.
Our Role at UiO → Since 2015, NCMM has been an integral part of UiO's life sciences initiatives, specifically within the Faculty of Medicine and through strong ties with the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Part of the Nordic EMBL Partnership → NCMM is a proud member of the Nordic European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Partnership for Molecular Medicine with sister nodes in Finland (FIMM), Sweden (MIMS), and Denmark (DANDRITE). We aim to strengthen our national and international collaboration networks through our focus areas, bringing together scientists from different backgrounds to accelerate research and enable precision medicine. Together, we are a significant force in advancing our understanding of disease mechanisms in Europe, thanks to our combined research expertise and cutting-edge infrastructure.
Expectations
It is expected that all NCMM staff take responsibility for their work tasks. For PhD-students and postdocs this means to take responsibility for own research project and career development. NCMM research group members have no core work hours but are normally expected to be present in the lab between 10am and 3pm whenever possible to facilitate scientific interactions. Check with your group leaders for work core hours in your particular group. NCMM research group members are expected to manage their time to achieve the goals inherent to their projects. Lab members will be expected to meet deadlines. Lab members are encouraged to seek independent resources or one another to overcome any research challenges. Any challenge that will delay research goals or daily tasks should be communicated to group leader or appropriate team members immediately to facilitate progress. As a member of the NCMM, you are expected to participate fully in your research group, both intellectually and operationally.
What you can expect from NCMM is that we do our best to make you thrive and succeed in your job. We will make sure you have basic facilities for work, like an office space, IT-equipment needed, a suitable and safe lab space when needed. That your group leader will introduce you to the group and give you tasks that you manage, or facilitate training to make you manage this. That NCMM have meeting placed for lunch and social meetings, and for work related issues – like institute meetings, research group meetings and scientific seminars – like our Tuesday seminars. There is also a NCMM Trainee Committee that do their best to follow up all our youngest researchers, the PhD- and postdocs – across all research groups, to make sure that work environment is improved – if and when necessary. If we do not meet your expectations, please tell us: Inform your group leader, the NCMM Trainee committee, NCMM management or your safety representative.
NCMM staff come from diverse personal and academic backgrounds. Respect must be shown for these differences to learn from one another. Let us bring our strengths and share our successes.
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
New in Forskningsparken
NCMM is located in building C and E, and finding your way around in our labyrinth is a common start-up-challenge. Here you just have to ask Carlos or your colleagues about help the first days. But note that as long as NCMM stays in Forskningsparken, we also have access to benefits as Forskningsparken members - like having a cantina and the bakery, and wardrobe with showers, and more.
Web resources
NCMM’s web pages → Here you will find the most recent news from NCMM, upcoming events at the centre, contact information for NCMM staff, information about NCMM research and more.
Employee pages → Personal UiO employee page. Log in with your UiO username and password. Here you can find information and resources related to your work (the most important of these already mentioned under New at UiO just above).
Forskningsparkens general web page
EMBL → NCMM is one of the nordic nodes of EMBL, here is the web page for the main organization EMBL.
