Hanne Flinstad Harbo appointed "Scientist of the Month" by "Helse Sør-Øst" for March 2014

 

The South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst) aims to profile ongoing excellent research in the region by calling special attention to a "Scientist of the Month".

For the month of March 2014, this honour went to Hanne Flinstad Harbo, head of the "Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research group" at the Department of Neurology at the Division of Surgery and Clinical Neuroscience, Oslo University Hospital.

Research is an area of commitment for the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority, which spends a total of 1.4 thousand million NOK on research every year.

 

Links:

Popular scientific presentation of Harbo's work, from the Helse Sør-Øst web site, entitled "Mange feilforestillinger om MS"

Helse Sør-Øst "Researcher of the month" archive


Hanne Harbo's publications

Home page of Harbo's "Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research group"


Previous news articles about Harbo:

OUS researchers co-author study published in Nature Genetics identifying new susceptibility variants for MS (October 2013)