Elisabeth Kommisrud

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Short about

Elisabeth Kommisrud has been employed as a professor of reproductive biotechnology at the Department of Biotechnology, INN, since 2013. Professor Kommisrud is a competent, internationally recognized researcher in the field of animal reproduction. Her research and leadership have formed the basis for the establishment of spin-off companies (SpermVital AS and Cryogenetics AS). She has extensive experience as a project manager and leader of large research projects as well as in IPR management, and her research has led to several patents. Kommisrud's research group was awarded the Inland University College's Research Prize in 2018, and she was personally awarded the same prize in 2023. In 2016, the Norwegian Agricultural Cooperative Innovation Prize was awarded to SpermVital, where Kommisrud received the award together with the general manager.

Kommisrud is now the leader of the research project Zygote, a six-year project supported by the Research Council and Innlandet County Municipality. INN is the project manager in collaboration with the scientific partners SINTEF, Oslo University Hospital, OsloMet, Simula and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, as well as the important industrial partners Geno SA, Norsvin R&D, SpermVital AS, Klosser Innovasjon AS, NCE Heidner and TYR.

Kommisrud is also INN's representative and Principal Investigator in the Center for Excellence in Research (SFF) CRESCO.

Background

Kommisrud is a veterinarian from the Norwegian Veterinary School, where she later also received her doctorate. She has, among other things, been a municipal veterinarian in Meland Municipality, a station veterinarian in Geno, a researcher in Norsvin, and a research manager in Geno and SpermVital.

Projects

• CRESCO Senter for embryologi - Helse i livets aller tidligste fase
• Zygote
• Zygote