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Summer School in Fibrosis Research, 2020 - CANCELLED! (09.12.2019)
Fibroblasts in fibrosis research
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
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Harvard Medical School inspiration and awards (11.11.2019)
CCBIO Associate Researcher Agnete S.T. Engelsen has just completed a one-year certificate program, with distinction, at Harvard Medical School (HMS), the High-Impact Cancer Research (HICR): Cancer, Biology and Therapeutics Program. Engelsen was the first attendee from Norway in this diverse group of highly motivated new and seasoned researchers from 42 countries, all around the world.
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.
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Full house for the Honorary Doctor Bruce R. Zetter (16.10.2019)
October 15th, Professor Bruce R. Zetter from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital was appointed as Honorary Doctor at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Medicine. The day before, October 14th, he gave his honorary doctor lecture, on the topic "RNA as a tool for cancer therapy".
Bruce Zetter
– Stort å bli utnevnt til æresdoktor (15.10.2019)
Det medisinske fakultets nye æresdoktor Bruce R. Zetter sier at utnevnelsen vil føre til et enda sterkere bånd mellom Harvard Medical School og Universitetet i 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.
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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
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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.
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.
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International fibrosis conference in Bergen (28.05.2019)
On May 23 and 24, 2019, the world's leading fibrosis and cancer researchers met in Bergen at an international fibrosis conference on the topic "New tools to study the fibrotic stroma".
Front page of CCBIO Annual Report 2018.
CCBIO Annual Report 2018 (27.05.2019)
The CCBIO Annual Report 2018 is now available!
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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.
Gruppebilde CCBIO på Solstrand
Kreft-toppene møttes på Solstrand (15.05.2019)
Verdensledende kreftforskere møttes på Solstrand for å presentere sin forskning under CCBIOs årlige symposium.
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Completion of the PhD course CCBIO907 Cancer-Related Vascular Biology (02.04.2019)
In February, the first CCBIO INTPART long course – CCBIO907 Cancer-Related Vascular Biology – was completed with the final of three course weeks. Assistant Professors Diane Bielenberg, Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children ‘s Hospital, and Magali Saint-Geniez, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, lectured and tutored the... Read more
Plakat Career Development Strategies
Career Development Strategies (22.02.2019)
A lecture on how to implement career development in PhD-training in the future.
Plakat Your Place in the Sun
Your place in the sun (22.02.2019)
A workshop on careers options, strategies & tactics for life scientists

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