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PhD fellow Anja Linde defended her doctoral thesis (17.02.2025)

Dr. Anja Linde defended her thesis on: Cardiovascular organ damage in patients with psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis: associations with hypertension, obesity and disease modifying treatment 14.02.25. Professor Renata Cifkova from Charles I University, Prague, Czech Republic served as first opponent, and professor Tillmann Uhlig, University of Oslo as second opponent. The scientific evaluation... Read more

大象传媒 postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.

UiB鈥檚大象传媒 programme gets Ocean Decade status (07.02.2025)

The 大象传媒 programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university鈥檚 second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.

Remembering the SDG Conference in Bergen 2025 (07.02.2025)

The 8th SDG Conference in Bergen put health, climate and sustainability on the agenda through both "Day Zero" with a number of digital events, and a physical conference in the University Aula with engaging discussions and interactions.

PhD fellow at the Pandemic Center, Pierina Benavente Velando, is the first author of a study published in October.

Illustrasjonsbilde av kvinne med magesmerter

Childhood trauma may increase the risk of endometriosis (04.02.2025)

Physical abuse and sexual assault may be linked to the development of endometriosis, a recent study shows. 鈥� Even those with a low genetic risk may be susceptible to developing the disease if they have experienced significant trauma, says lead author Solveig L酶khammer from the University of Bergen.

Research School's poster presentations - award winners 2025 (04.02.2025)

On February 29th and 30th, the 19th annual research presentations took place for participants in the Research School in Clinical Medicine. Numerous awards were handed out. See the award winners here!

Oppstilt bilde av IP-future prosjekt team

Launching the future of interprofessional education (30.01.2025)

Core members of the IP-future team gathered for the first IP-future meeting.

Hrvoje Miletic is hoping to solve the mystery of malignant brain tumors (13.01.2025)

Professor Hrvoje Miletic and his team at UiB have made groundbreaking discoveries that could provide new answers to what makes malignant brain tumors grow. The goal is to improve both survival and treatment of brain cancer.

Newsletter December 2024 (08.01.2025)

New study highlights challenges immigrants face in following COVID-19 guidelines in Norway (03.01.2025)

A recent qualitative study uncovers significant barriers that immigrants in Norway encounter in adhering to COVID-19 infection control measures, shedding light on the need for improved public health strategies and communication.

Photo of the research group sitting on the stairs in Vrimle

Newly discovered mechanism sheds light upon aging (02.01.2025)

UiB researchers are behind a new discovery that tells us how associated neurodegenerative diseases might develop.

A group picture of the PhD candidate, evaluation committee, chair, and supervisors.

A PhD candidate from the GAP research group successfully completed the defense (28.12.2024)

Shanshan Xu of the Greenness, Air Pollution, and health (GAP) research group at the University of Bergen successfully defended her PhD thesis on 鈥淓ffects of long-term air pollution and greenness exposures on mortality and respiratory health. The Life-GAP project" on 16 December 2024.

What happens when tumors get nervous? (20.12.2024)

12 mill NOK was today (Dec. 20, 2024) awarded to Lars A. Akslen and Heidrun Vethe from the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO) on the project "When breast cancer hits a nerve - neural involvement as a hallmark of tumor progression."

Two researchers in the Neuro-SysMed lab.

New project support to a range of Neuro-SysMed researchers (20.12.2024)

The Western Norway Regional Health Authorities (Helse Vest) has recently announced their project funding for 2025, and we are happy to see many Neuro-SysMed researchers in their announcement. In addition, other funding agencies have also granted support to our projects this fall.

Picture from the auditorium with many people in the audience, and the speaker being introduced on the stage.

Inspirational last CCBIO seminar of 2024 (19.12.2024)

CCBIO has a tradition of using the December meeting in its seminar series to add a different perspective and encourage our research environment to think outside of the box. This December, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Fran Balkwill, who has a unique experience in addition to her cancer research career.

Brekken as speaker on a CCBIO conference.

New biomarker identified for therapeutic intervention for reducing tumor progression (19.12.2024)

The result of years of collaboration between CCBIO PI Jim Lorens and Rolf Brekken and other colleagues in the USA, Finland, Romania and Norway, is now published in Science Signaling, with research identifying nuclear AKT3 as a new biomarker of advanced malignancy and revealing the pathway that activates AKT3 to drive epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer.

Course in methods of cancer biomarker research (19.12.2024)

CCBIO recently held its signature course Methods in Cancer Biomarker Research (CCBIO905), September 25-27, 2024, at Haukeland University Hospital, providing the attending students with a full panel of standard and advanced methods with relevance for cancer biomarker research.

Collage of Tessa in Boston, standing in front of Harvard Medical School, working in the lab with a microscope, being in the library, and seeing Boston skyline.

3-month visit in Boston (19.12.2024)

This year, one of CCBIO's students got the opportunity to have a 3-month research stay in Boston, due to CCBIO's INTPART collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. PhD Candidate Tessa Lohr reports of a great experience, highly recommending it to other young researchers.

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