About AIICAS

Built on a simple but powerful idea

AIICAS — AI Innovation Center AS — began with a conviction: existing medicines may already hold the answers to diseases we haven’t solved yet. We just haven’t had the tools to see it.

So we developed a decision engine that uses artificial intelligence to analyze large, complex datasets and identify patterns, causal relationships, and biological signals that humans alone would struggle to detect — to find new treatment strategies by looking at existing knowledge in a fundamentally different way.

Today, AIICAS is a research, development and commercialization company built on more than seven years of work with health data, patient modelling and experimental validation. We do not primarily develop medicines ourselves; we build the decision basis that research groups, biotech and pharma can use to make better decisions.

“Parkinson’s is where we started. It won’t be where we stop.”

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Our mission

Our vision is a future in which complex diseases are understood earlier, so that the right decisions and new treatment opportunities can emerge before the damage becomes irreversible.

Study existing knowledge in a new way
Understand why, not just what
Help researchers reach patients faster
Build on decades of proven medical science
Our Story

Where we started — and where we’re going

Our first discovery put the idea to the test. By analyzing national health data and scientific literature, AIICAS identified several drugs and biological signals potentially linked to reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease — developed with access to expertise at the University of Bergen.

Millions of people live with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases, and despite decades of research none can yet be stopped from progressing. We don’t claim to have solved them — but we’ve built a way to understand them differently, letting data, biology, and AI identify biological signals and possible treatment directions that are hard to see by traditional means.

Our findings carry no guarantee. Research never does. We don’t promise a cure — but we promise to follow the signals wherever they lead. Parkinson’s is where we started. It won’t be where we stop.

What Makes Us Different
We look for the why

Most tools stop at correlation. We try to understand the biological process behind a pattern.

Data, biology & AI together

National health data, scientific literature, and laboratory experiments, analysed as one.

Proven in the real world

Demonstrated through research projects, including Parkinson’s, and biological validation in the lab.

Built with the research community

Developed with access to expertise at the University of Bergen and other research environments.

Scientific rigour

Every candidate we surface is backed by traceable, evidence-based reasoning — not guesswork.

Patient focus

Our work is ultimately about reaching patients faster with treatments that are already proven safe.

Openness

We believe in building partnerships — with researchers, clinicians, and institutions who share our goals.

Responsibility

We take the validation of every finding seriously — accuracy matters when the stakes are medical.

The Team

The people behind AIICAS

AIICAS brings together expertise in life sciences, artificial intelligence, data engineering, and business development — united by a shared mission.

Ove Rustung Hjelmervik
Ove Rustung Hjelmervik
PhD, MBA — Chief Executive Officer
A background in technology, energy, economics, and the leadership of large innovation processes — with decades spent developing and organising complex technology projects from idea to delivery.
Rune Brakstad
Rune Brakstad
Chief Commercial Officer
Leads commercial strategy and partnerships, connecting AIICAS with researchers, institutions, and industry collaborators.
Øivind Kristoffersen
Øivind Kristoffersen
Chief Financial Officer
Leads the company’s financial strategy and operations, building the foundation for sustainable, long-term growth.
Terje Solsvik Kristensen
Terje Solsvik Kristensen
Prof. Emeritus — Chief Technology Officer
Decades of work in artificial intelligence, modelling, neural networks, and simulation. The lead architect behind the AIICAS Decision Engine, responsible for its mathematical and technological development.
Jarl Åsbjørn Jakobsen
Jarl Åsbjørn Jakobsen
MD, PhD, MHA — Chief Medical Officer
Brings a background spanning radiology, clinical medicine, medical research, healthcare leadership, and innovation. Connects AIICAS with clinical expertise, research insight, and the wider medical community.
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Researchers, clinicians & collaborators
Over the years, AIICAS has worked alongside researchers, clinicians, and biologists across health and neuroscience. If that’s you, we’d love to talk.
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Our Commitment

We follow the signals where they lead

This is not a shortcut. It is a smarter route — one that respects the decades of research already invested in proven medicines and asks a better question: what else might this help?

We’re at the beginning of that journey: focused, curious, and serious about getting the science right. If you share that orientation — as a researcher, a clinician, or a partner — we’d like to hear from you.