Research support and facilities
Ahus has several services and facilities for the hospital's researchers, including Campus Ahus (administrative support functions), EpiGen (research laboratory), and various research outpatient clinics. In addition, the research support department offers advice and guidance on several areas of responsibility, including biobanking, clinical studies, privacy, and finance.
Akershus University Hospital is responsible for ensuring that all research conducted by the organization is planned, executed, and concluded in accordance with legal requirements and recognized principles of good scientific practice. Read more in the document below:
Responsibility in Research (PDF)
Anchoring of Projects
The project leader is responsible for ensuring that the project is approved in the department and in the division/clinic before commencement.
Research Responsible at Ahus:
Helge Røsjø, Director of Research and Innovation
In applications to the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK), it is the Director of Research and Innovation Helge Røsjø who shall be listed as the responsible person for the research. The following contact information should be filled out when Ahus is the responsible research institution:
Contact Information
Email: postmottak@ahus.no
Administrative responsible for applications to the Research Council of Norway:
Karin Vassbakk, email: karin.vassbakk@ahus.no
Organization number, Ahus: 983 971 636
EU: Legal entity (Pic Code - EU projects): 96 56 72 346
Are you planning to collect patient samples in connection with your research project?
The Department of Research Support can assist you with advice and guidance on all steps for biobanking. This includes planning, establishment, practical implementation, and closure. Please feel free to contact us; we are here to help!
Contact us at: biobank@ahus.no
eBiobank is an electronic tracking solution for research biobanks. In addition to Ahus HF, eBiobank is currently used at OUS HF and SSHF. Information about eBiobank can be found here:
eBiobank (forskningsstøtte.no)
Biobank procedures, biobank templates, and guides
Practical biobanking (freezer storage, transport, and delivery)
The Ahus biomarker facility for clinical research studies (ABF) aims to assist research environments with measurements of biomarkers, including heart markers. We offer accredited analyses according to ISO 15189. We have research biomedical engineers and personnel in the infrastructure who can assist with analysis.
The User Council
at Ahus offers an assessment with regard to:
- How and in which parts of the project user involvement can be beneficial.
- Possible nomination of relevant user representatives with the necessary knowledge and experience.
- Assessment of the eligibility of potential user participants.
In the establishment of new research projects, the project leader fills out a form (attached to this procedure) and sends it via email to ingrid.helene.halvorsen@ahus.no.
User involvement should be in place as early as possible in the project process, and the User Council should be involved already in the startup phase of the project description.
Documents
Campus Ahus offers administrative support functions for university staff, management, and medical students at the three clinics at Akershus University Hospital.
The Analysis Department is a service organization for researchers at Ahus and UiO. We assist with data collection, data extraction, and secure storage of research data. Get to know us in the film below.
We give data meaning! About the Analysis Department at Ahus - YouTube
Contact us via email:
analyse@ahus.no
Ahus has an agreement with services for sensitive data (TSD).
- TSD provides researchers at UiO, the higher education sector, university hospitals, and other public research institutions with a research platform that meets the strict legal requirements for processing and storing sensitive research data.
- TSD is developed and operated by USIT at UiO and is part of NorStore, the national infrastructure for managing and storing scientific data.
Ahus has entered into an agreement with UiO regarding the use of the "Digital Consent Solution".
Research projects at Ahus can from today utilize UiO's digital consent solution.
The solution can be used to send out invitations to participate in research studies, and participants provide digital consent using an e-signature solution with 2-factor login.
To access the solution, the research project must have an active project area in services for sensitive data (TSD). The consent itself is created in Nettskjema and is then linked to the respective project area in TSD, where the consent is stored.
The setup and use of the solution are managed and supported exclusively by UiO.
See more about the solution at uio.no
See more about how to register a project and gain access to TSD at uio.no
The Diagnostics and Technology Division provides high-quality professional service within our specialties for the hospital's inpatient and outpatient patients, as well as patients from primary healthcare in Health South-East.
EpiGen is a modern research laboratory that aims to create new opportunities to understand how new knowledge about human genetic material can contribute to improved patient treatment.
The Research Council and the European Commission have introduced requirements for Gender Equality Plans (GEP) at the organizational level for applicants and partners when contracts are signed. The requirement applies to calls for proposals with application deadlines from 2022 onwards.
You can find more information and Ahus' long-term plan for diversity and equality on the page below.
Equality and Diversity
The goal of the innovation work at Akershus University Hospital is to develop better products and services for tomorrow's patient care.
If you have an idea, we would like to hear about it.
Contact us at: innovasjon@ahus.no
or get in touch with: Inven2
The Department for Research Support in the Research and Innovation Division (FID) has established a routine for a "Response Team" where assistance can be obtained from an interdisciplinary group of research advisors.
The goal of the service is to further contribute to the efficiency and quality assurance of the formal and administrative processes before the start of new research projects and clinical studies.
We can assist and guide both before and after the allocation of research funds. We encourage you to contact us as early as possible in the process by sending a request with information about the study via email: kliniske.studier@ahus.no.
The Response Team will then arrange a joint meeting with relevant professionals who can provide advice and guidance to the project group in the following areas:
- Research administration
- Medical subject library
- Clinical studies
- Clinical research outpatient clinic (Nordbyhagen, Gardermoen, Kongsvinger)
- Biobank
- Innovation
- Pragmatic studies
- Privacy and research law
- Other research guidance in monitoring, deviations, research ethics, etc.
The research portal is available for researchers in Health South-East, and offers the following solutions: Microsoft Teams, Project Area, Research Workspace (a personal virtual workspace), Data Storage Area, Virtual Machines (for server capacity with backup), and File Transfer Tool (a file moving tool).
The Clinical Research Outpatient Clinic (KFP) is an offer to all clinical departments at Ahus for conducting clinical studies. Read more at the link below.
Here are many good pieces of advice and useful tips for what is important to consider when conducting a research project. The course portfolio is divided into different modules such as,
- Research law and ethics
- Research administration
- Clinical studies
- The library
- Biobank
The "Package course for research" courses are held twice a year. You can choose whether to participate in all or some course modules. You can attend physically or digitally, and it is arranged so that you can come and go between the courses.
The next course will be held as a full-day course on October 18, 2024. If you wish to sign up for one or more of the courses, answer the questions and submit the registration form here: will be updated soon
If you have questions, please contact fellesmail.kursportefolje.forskning@ahus.no
NorCRIN is a national research infrastructure with the main goal of strengthening and simplifying collaboration in all categories of clinical research in Norway.
Research administration in FID provides personnel administrative assistance for externally funded research (help with job postings and hiring, changes in employment status during the process, leaves of absence and other absences, secondments to clinics, salary calculations, salary changes, payment of foreign scholarships, extensions and termination of employment.) It is important to be aware that the department head has personnel responsibility for research staff in their department (including conducting employee interviews, sick leave follow-up, personnel matters, conflict management, etc.)
Contact persons:
Nina Viksløkken Ødegård, advisor
Tone Eggen, advisor
Pragmatic studies have many common features with traditional randomized controlled trials, but differ by utilizing resources that are already available in the healthcare system, thus allowing for the inclusion of a large number of patients in a short time. They are also less costly than studies with traditional designs. Pragmatic studies are characterized by their aim to inform about optimal clinical treatment, include patients from a typical clinical everyday setting that are relevant to the clinical treatment, and utilize follow-up and data collection from established clinical registries with several meaningful endpoints.
Contact: pragmatiske.studier@ahus.no
A routine has been developed for responsibility and task distribution for trial lectures and defenses for doctoral degrees originating from Akershus University Hospital.
Regional research support provides operational support functions to researchers at all health enterprises in Health South-East.
Read more about regional research support (oslo-universitetssykehus.no)