This intensive blended learning course equips PhD researchers with the entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and tools needed to transform scientific discoveries into viable innovations and ventures. The course combines online pre-work with a hands-on, 5-day lecture and workshop series (10-14th of November) and aims to give students and researchers an overview about entrepreneurship as well as common business tools and strategies, to be able to assess the commercialization potential of a scientific idea and to develop solutions towards market needs. Topics include:

• Bringing Scientific Inventions and Research Ideas to Market
• Entrepreneurship in all its Facets
• Designing for Demand / Lean Canvas
• Business Strategies and Models
• Effectuation and Design Thinking
• Intellectual Property
• Financing and Funding Strategies
• Ethics and Regulatory Frameworks
• Risk Management and Mitigation
• Networking, Collaboration and Pitching 
   

Through lectures, interactive workshops, peer collaboration, expert mentoring, and real-world case studies, researchers will learn how to identify opportunities, mobilize resources, and create value (financial, societal and/or cultural). Students will work in groups on three assignments: Lean Canvas, a report detailing Lean Canvas findings and assumptions and a slide deck for final presentations.

To register, contact:
Contact your local NTEU project manager

Instructors:
Ásgeir Jónsson – asgeirjo@ru.is
Hallur Þór Sigurðarson – hallursig@ru.is
Susanne Durst – susanned@ru.is

This course aims to equip students with a broad understanding of digital health, emphasizing not only technical skills but also ethical considerations and critical thinking when designing, developing, and implementing digital tools in healthcare settings. The main objective is to set the stage for digital health, in general, and to understand the impact of design, development, and use of digital tools within healthcare settings for optimization purposes, in particular. By the end of the course, the students will be able to illustrate introductory knowledge of digital health, encompassing design, development, and utilization of digital tools in healthcare settings, as demonstrated by their assignment, where the focus is to design a mobile application for a specific case as well as reflect on the ethical implications of working with artificial intelligence as an embedded part of healthcare.

The course instructor is Dr. Anna Sigridur Islind, a professor at the department of computer science at Reykjavik University. 

To register, contact: islind@ru.is

The purpose of this course is to enable doctoral students and other participants to gain an understanding of the major neuroinflammatory diseases and the key players involved, including the interaction between the central nervous and immune systems. An additional purpose is that those who participate in the course learn to understand critical aspects of creating and using experimental systems to model neuroinflammatory diseases.

The course is offered full time, Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00 at the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) on Karolinska University Hospital, campus Solna, building L8, lecture hall and seminar rooms.

This course is given jointly by the doctoral programmes Allergy, immunology and inflammation (Aii) and Neuroscience (Neuro

Developmental biology lies at the heart of an effort to understanding complex biological systems. By studying how neural circuits are assembled we can extrapolate key aspects of their function as well as devise strategies for their repair. This course is given to deepen the understanding of how molecular and cellular mechanisms underlie neurobiological function and to widen the horizon of students within the strong Karolinska neuroscience community.

The course is given in collaboration with the Master's Programme in Biomedicine.

This is a full time course given in person at Biomedicum, Campus Solna.

Link to course evaluation

https://survey.ki.se/Report/5biVHpOK5wg

Experimental neuroscience is key to progress in the understanding of how the brain functions. The experimental toolbox for studies in rodents is currently without comparison, allowing detailed investigation of how the brain is built and the function of brain circuits. Technological advances also make it possible to directly connect neurons and circuits to behaviour. 

In the Brain Circuits course, students will meet international and KI neuroscientists who have made significant contributions to the study and understanding of neuronal circuits and behaviour. The development and application of novel technologies and analysis (high-density electrophysiology and imaging of single-neuron activity, optogenetics, behavioural tracking, machine learning etc) will be covered, with a focus on advances using transgenic rodents. We have a strong emphasis on engaging junior neuroscientists in the course and on creating a network for future neuroscience leaders.

This course is given in collaboration with the Master's Programme in Biomedicine.

The purpose of the course is for participants to gain knowledge concerning genetics, molecular mechanisms as well as clinical features and treatment strategies of neurodegenerative disorders.

This course is given in collaboration with the Master's Programme in Biomedicine.

This course will provide curious students with an overview of the field of nervous system injury and possibilities for repair. We will focus on the cellular pathobiology but have a translational outlook and integrate the clinical perspective. The student will after the course know the basic concepts and recognise relevant research questions in the field. Hence, the student have aquired up to date information and understanding of the problems and possibilities for repairing an injured central or peripheral nervous system. 

This course has the main general purpose of connecting two topics, or disease types, which are generally known by the scientific community to be completely distant from each other, such as Infections of the Central Nervous System (Neuro-Infections) and neurodegenerative diseases/dementia.  

Students should gain knowledge on the common neuroinflammatory processes and molecular mechanisms of neuronal damage that are common between neurodegenerative diseases and Central Nervous System infections. These learning outcomes reflect the purpose of the course, which is of shedding light into the interplay between dementia/neurodegenerative disease and infections and try to understand the molecular biology that connects these two types of brain disease.