Infrastructure
The Trond Mohn Research Foundation has contributed to establishing infrastructures at the University of Bergen and at Helse Bergen. The infrastructure initiative ranges from contributions to innovative research infrastructure in the social sciences to the procurement of equipment of immediate benefit to patient treatment.
The Foundation itself contacts relevant partners and initiates cooperation based on its own priorities.
MRI technology gives researchers and healthcare professionals the opportunity to study how the brain works. Co-funding from the Trond Mohn Foundation made it possible for the Helse Bergen health trust to buy a Prisma 3T MRI scanner which is specially adapted for research purposes
The Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory opened in 2009. The laboratory is a collaboration between the Helse Bergen health trust, the University of Bergen and the Trond Mohn Foundation
Trond Mohn has donated NOK 250 million to improving and establishing the cancer treatment of the future in Bergen. The funds are allocated through the Foundation.
The Trond Mohn Foundation has provided PET scanners that can be used for both research purposes and patient treatment.
UiB has purchased a 600 MHz NMR instrument with financial assistance from Trond Mohn Foundation, UiB, Sparebankstiftinga Sogn og Fjordane and Helse Bergen health trusts. The equipment is particularly well suited to long series of biological samples, particularly for medical metabolomics studies.
In connection with a 2010 deed of gift from Trond Mohn to the Foundation, whereby the Foundation received NOK 100 million, Mohn asked that the Foundation fund the purchase of a cardiac CT scanner placed at Haukeland University Hospital.
UiB, in cooperation with Haukeland University Hospital, and with funding from the Foundation, has established a core facility called the Research Unit for Health surveys (FHU). FHU will facilitate nutrition studies, vaccination studies, drug trials etc.
DIGSSCORE comprises the Norwegian Citizen Panel and the Citizen Lab. The Norwegian Citizen Panel is the first fully digital infrastructure for questionnaire surveys in Norwegian research, and was made possible thanks to funding from the Trond Mohn Foundation.
The Foundation has helped to procure scientific equipment for mass cytometry at the core facility for cell sorting and flow cytometry at UiB.
A new laboratory for automated peptide synthesis has been established at the Department of Chemistry with funding from the Foundation.
