News archive for Department of Clinical Medicine

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to read a nutritional content table, and what you should pay attention to (01.03.2019)

– When a product is labeled with a keyhole, it does not mean that the product is healty, but that it is healthier than similar products, says nutrition experts Cathrine Horn and Vegard Lysne.

Big test of bars (01.03.2019)

- Two of these are as unhealthy as candy.

Fecal transplantation is good for abdominal symptoms for IBS patients (01.03.2019)

Placing stools from healthy people in the stomach improved both the symptoms and bacterial flora in the intestines of persons with a variety of irritable bowel syndrome.

Scenes from the symposium. Lecturer and audience.

"Google map" for tumors (17.02.2019)

The University of Bergen has just implemented the Hyperion Imaging System, next generation immunohistochemistry where researchers can explore tissue biology with 35 antibodies simultaneously. This instrument is the only of its kind in Northern Europe, and is open for booking for all researchers on equal terms.

Centre for Nutrition at the RStudio conference in Austin (24.01.2019)

Four PhD-candidates from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the RStudio conference in Austin last week.

Kryoimmunterapi-teamet i gang i operasjonssalen.

The Research Council of Norway continues to support next generation cryoimmunotherapy (CryoIT) (16.01.2019)

The Research Council of Norway has announced that 11 out of 87 received applications have been selected for funding in their programme called "High-quality and Reliable Diagnostics, Treatment and Rehabilitation (BEHANDLING)”. The project “Enhanced cryoimmunotherapy against urogenital cancers” by project leader Karl-Henning Kalland, CCBIO PI, was among the 11 selected projects and was one of two... Read more

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