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Disputas Robert Whittaker
How to count patients admitted to hospital with covid-19? (19.04.2024)
On 26 April, Robert Neil Whittaker defends his doctoral thesis in which he has examined the monitoring of hospital patients who were admitted with covid-19 in Norwegian hospitals between February 2020 and May 2022.
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Professor Eva Gerdts was awarded the Falch Senior award 2024 (17.04.2024)
Åse K. Bekkelund - poster prize April 2024
Poster award to Åse K. Bekkelund (11.04.2024)
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Announcement of Research program in Women’s Health (09.04.2024)
Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen, together with Helse Bergen and Trond Mohn Research Foundation (TMF), announces a Research program in Women’s Health.
Prativa Basnet
Twin Pregnancies: women’s health and reproduction (04.04.2024)
On 15/04/2024 Prativa Basnet defends her PhD dissertation titled “Twin Pregnancies: Long-term Maternal Mortality, Birthweight in Subsequent Pregnancy and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Next Generation” at the University of Bergen.
Pandemisenteret årsrapport 2023
Pandemic Centre's annual report for 2023 (03.04.2024)
2023 was another exciting and fruitful year for the Pandemic Centre. Now you can read the annual report with a summary of our activities throughout last year.
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Details in pregnancy history shed light on risk of dying of cardiovascular disease (21.03.2024)
UiB-research sheds light on how CVD is associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy – but not for everyone.
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Arleen Aune defended her PhD thesis (18.03.2024)
PhD fellow Arleen Aune defended her PhD thesis ‘Cardiac organ damage in systemic hypertension: Impact of gender, etiology and comorbidities’ 15.03.24
Æresdoktor Alberto Ascherio
The new Honorary Doctor hopes to create a vaccine against MS (15.03.2024)
The new Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, Alberto Ascherio, was head of the breakthrough showing that there is a connection between MS and the Epstein-Barr virus. In collaboration with researchers from UiB, he hopes that the next step will be to develop a vaccine against the disease.
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Shedding new light on brain calcification (14.03.2024)
Brain calcification can cause movement disorders and cognitive impairment. New research by the Arnesen Lab at UiB provides increased insight into how these calcifications occur.
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Having complicated pregnancies increase the risk of dying of cardiovascular diseases (13.03.2024)
Researchers from University of Bergen have investigated the relation between 40-year-old women’s pregnancy history and later risk of dying of cardiovascular diseases.
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Rapid molecular testing in the emergency department leads to faster, targeted treatment for community-acquired pneumonia (07.03.2024)
New research from the University of Bergen shows that rapid testing of patients in the emergency department can provide better and more targeted treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. Worldwide, this is one of the most common causes of hospitalization and death.
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Can sex and gender research improve the understanding of the lacking political focus on women’s health in Norway? (23.02.2024)
Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt gave a humorous and inspiring lecture on sex and gender and understanding of different categories and dimensions
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New teeth using stem cell technology (21.02.2024)
Research leader, Cecilie Gjerde makes new bone material grow using the patient's own stem cells.
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Nordic Nutrition Summer Symposium 2024 (21.02.2024)
The FENS affiliated Nordic Nutrition Societies and the Norwegian Research School in Nutrition, NutriNOR, invite to the 2nd Nordic Nutrition Summer Symposium!
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The Pandemic Centre to lead working group on migration and pandemics (16.02.2024)
The pandemic center will lead a newly established working group on migration and pandemics on behalf of the European public health organization EUPHA.
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A new PhD! (15.02.2024)
Congratulations to Peter on becoming a PhD holder!
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Design, Quality and Validation of the EU-OPENSCREEN Fragment Library Poised to a High-Throughput Screening Collection (14.02.2024)
The Brenk lab has co-authored a paper describing the EU-Openscreen fragment library.

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