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Hani Gabra appointed CMO at BerGenBio (17.12.2019)

Professor Hani Gabra was recently appointed Chief Medical Officer at BerGenBio, based in Oxford UK. Professor Gabra has been part of CCBIO's network of international affiliated researchers since 2016, and considers his affiliation to CCBIO both an advantage and a prerequisite for his role as CMO for BerGenBio. He also finds there are clear opportunities for increased interaction between BerGenBio... Read more

Rewarding to have Medical Student Research Program students in the research group (12.12.2019)

Since CCBIO was established five years ago, 17 students in the Medical Student Research Program have been affiliated to the center's research groups, and several have proceeded to a PhD degree. The students in the program are genuinely interested and dedicated, but also lacking research experience and in need of close follow-up and mentoring. Nevertheless, CCBIO has very good experiences in... Read more

The board at the stage, opening the workshop.

Oral pathology & oral cancer collaboration project with Eurasia countries received funding for two more years (13.11.2019)

In 2016 CCBIO’s Associate Investigator Professor Daniela Elena Costea received 3 million NOK in funding from the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (https://diku.no/en) for a 3 year collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology and oral cancer between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia. Due to its achievements, the... Read more

Lars Akslen on stage in front of the audience

Nordic updates and networking in translational pathology (11.11.2019)

CCBIO hosted the 4th Annual Scandinavian Seminar on Translational Pathology at Solstrand Hotel, Os (Bergen), with 78 dedicated participants from Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Learn About Cancer Through Art (24.10.2019)

Meet a cancer cell in person in five short films.

Centre for Nutrition at the European Nutrition Conference 2019 (23.10.2019)

PhD-candidates and researchers from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the 13th edition of the European Nutrition Conference in Dublin from 15-18th October 2019.

Learn About Cancer Through Art (17.10.2019)

The project Learn About Cancer Through Art is a small scale project financed by the University of Bergen. The project aims at using art as a tool to disseminate knowledge about cancer biology. We collaborate with artists, involve them into active discussions about selected aspects of cancer biology, and challenge them to transform that into art.

Bruce R. Zetter. Honourary Doctor, University of Bergen.

A terrific honour (16.10.2019)

Bruce R. Zetter, the new honorary doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, thinks this honorary doctorate will strengthen the ties between Harvard Medical School and the University of Bergen.

Gigantic waterfall at Iceland, and people walking into a view plateau in the middle of it.

Stimulating scientific eruptions (23.09.2019)

Iceland’s dramatic landscape served as backdrop for generating ideas and action plans for new collaborations between the University of Bergen/CCBIO and Harvard Medical School/Vascular Biology Program in a meeting August 29th to September 3rd.

Professor Bruce Zetter to be Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen (20.09.2019)

The University of Bergen is appointing 10 new Honorary Doctors, one of which is Harvard Professor Bruce Zetter, very well known to the CCBIO family, both as advisor in the CCBIO Scientific Advisory Board, and through the CCBIO-VBP INTPART collaboration.

Olga sitting on a wall with landscape in background.

Mapping oral cancer prevention in Eurasia countries (18.09.2019)

The collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia is an important internationalization project financed by DIKU through the Eurasia program. Within this project, UiB/CCBIO is currently hosting a master student, Olga Golburean, a graduated dental hygienist who is taking her master degree in global health with Professor Dana Costea... Read more

collage of photos from Boston, and the 3 intern students.

Boston summer interns (18.09.2019)

This summer, CCBIO sent their second batch of students to be Boston summer interns in the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART collaboration. Read the full report from Hanna Dillekås, PhD candidate in Oddbjørn Straume’s group, Ridhima Das, PhD candidate in Dana Costea’s group, and Amalie Fagerli Tegnander, medical student affiliated to Lars A. Akslen's group, in Elisabeth Wik’s project.

Vegard Lysne og Anthea Van Parys på Homosystein-konferanse

Centre for Nutrition at the Homocysteine conference (30.06.2019)

The PhD-candidates Vegard Lysne and Anthea Van Parys, from the Centre for Nutrition, participated at the Homocysteine conference in Virgili, Spain.

Elisabeth receiving the award from the dean.

Faculty Internationalization Award to Elisabeth Wik (25.06.2019)

Congratulations to CCBIO's Elisabeth Wik for a very well deserved Faculty Internationalization Award! The prize was presented at the Faculty Day, June 13th 2019.

CCBIO Annual Report 2018 (27.05.2019)

The CCBIO Annual Report 2018 is now available!

CCBIO's 7th Annual Symposium (2019) (21.05.2019)

World leading cancer experts met at Solstrand: International top notch cancer researchers met at Solstrand to present their work at CCBIO's annual symposium.

Brought brain surgery to Ethiopia (11.04.2019)

At the beginning of the millennium, there was no one capable of undertaking brain surgery in Ethiopia. Today, thanks to Professor Morten Lund-Johansen at the Department of Clinical Medicine and his colleagues, there are 35 specialists able to conduct head operations.

KEFF Conference 2019 (02.04.2019)

This years' KEFF conference was held in Bergen on the 18th and 19th of March and was a great success with over 220 participants.

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