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Eva Gerdts and HM King Harald
The Norwegian Health Association awarded the Heart Research Prize 2022 to professor Eva Gerdts (29.04.2022)
The prize was presented to her by His Majesty King Harald at a ceremony at The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo Thursday 28.04.22
Medication
Other means than medicines? (26.04.2022)
Helping using other means than medicines in services for patients with psychosis? Maneuvering decision making, guidelines and resources.
Person med pustemaske
People who remained sick long after their Covid-19 infection often had alterations in their intestinal bacteria (25.04.2022)
Professor and leader of the Centre for Nutrition, Gülen Arslan Lied, have contributed in an article at forskning.no about at study of intestinal flora and Covid-19.
Picture of Maiken
Welcome to the group, Maiken! (22.04.2022)
This week, Maiken Fridal Trones is joining us as a MSc student in our lab in Bergen. She will be working on some interesting mutants of Plasmodium actin.
SFU EPIC
Interprofessional learning crucial to reach the UN sustainability goals (11.04.2022)
TVEPS - Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning is one of two academic communities at The Faculty of Medicine applying to become “Centre for Excellence in Education”. By doing this, the centre is taking a key role within interprofessional education and sustainability.
Signing MOU Bceps + Africa CDC
Memorandum of Understanding between BCEPS (UiB) and Africa CDC (06.04.2022)
The agreement will strengthen ongoing work to improve public health in African Union (AU) member states and give more people access to basic health services.
actomyosin structure
High-resolution structures of malaria parasite actomyosin and actin filaments (04.04.2022)
Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases in the world. The parasites causing malaria move by gliding, for which force is generated by an unusual actomyosin motor. We have determined high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the parasite actomyosin and actin filaments and a lower resolution reconstructions of the myosin light chains in the complex.
ISIDORe
Fragment screening for pandemic prepardness (01.04.2022)
A large EU consortium got funding to integrated services for combatting current and future infectious disease outbreaks. BiSS is part of this consortium and offers fragment screening.