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February-2025: Commercialization Grant Awarded

Good News: The Research Council of Norway has awarded a Proof-of-Concept Grant for us to continue exploring, together with the UiB Tech Transfer Office (VIS), the commercialization of olefin metathesis catalysts recently developed in our labs.

February-2025: UiB Highlights Our Research in Web Presentation

Interview and Video: See the interview (unfortunately only in Norwegian) and video (English) featuring Vidar R. Jensen in which the group’s strategy to automated and autonomous molecular discovery is briefly introduced.

February-2025: Vidar R. Jensen Gives Talk at the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences

Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Lecture by Vidar R. Jensen: Fremtidens utvikling av medisiner og materialer: KI og autonomi” (The Future Development of Drugs and Materials: AI and Autonomy).

January-2025: Visit by Norway's Minister of Research and Higher Education, Oddmund Hoel

Norwegian Research and Higher Education Minister Oddmund Hoel Visits HTE@UiB: Oddmund Hoel visits HTE@UiB to explore the wonders of high-throughput experimentation and the upcoming national infrastructure, NorHTE. Prof. Bengt Erik Haug (left) and Minister Oddmund Hoel (right).

Norwegian Research and Higher Education Minister Oddmund Hoel Visits HTE@UiB: Oddmund Hoel visits HTE@UiB to explore the wonders of high-throughput experimentation and the upcoming national infrastructure, NorHTE.

January-2025: Visit by Opposition Leader Erna Solberg

Party Leader Erna Solberg Visits HTE@UiB: Erna Solberg, leader of the “Høyre” party and former Prime Minister of Norway, visits HTE@UiB to explore the wonders of high-throughput experimentation and the upcoming national infrastructure, NorHTE. Photo by Eivind Senneset (16.01.2025): Erna Solberg (left) and Prof. Bengt Erik Haug (right) discussing at the HTE@UiB facility.

Picture of Erna Solberg at the HTE@UiB facility

January-2025: Visit by "Bergens Tidende"

HTE@UiB and NorHTE in Leading Regional Newspaper: “Bergens Tidende” presented HTE@UiB, the recently granted national NorHTE infrastructure, and the research that these facilities enable. 

September-2024: NorHTE: Granted!

Fantastic News: The Research Council of Norway announces funding for The Norwegian Open Laboratory for High-Throughput Experimentation and Scale-up (NorHTE). Led by the University of Bergen, NorHTE will be a national infrastructure that will massively increase our capability and capacity for robotic, high-throughput, automated, and autonomous experimentation. 

September-2024: Commercialization Grant Awarded

Good News: The Research Council of Norway has awarded a Qualification Grant for us to start exploring, together with the UiB Tech Transfer Office (VIS), the commercialization of olefin metathesis catalysts recently developed in our labs.