News archive for Department of Clinical Medicine

Dana Costea is this year’s receiver of the Pindborg Prize, an annual award issued by The Scandinavian Fellowship of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine (SFOPOM), in memory of the late Professor Jens J. Pindborg, internationally renowned dentist and pathologist.

CCBIO initiated its research school – CCBIO Research School for Cancer Studies (RSCS) – very early on, and the RSCS has since the startup in 2014 undergone a steady progress and expansion of the course portfolio. Now that CCBIO’s parent department the Department of Clinical Medicine has been assigned an FKB center (Centre for Clinical Treatment Research) – Neuro-SysMed – CCBIO is happy to be able... Read more

Marte-Helene Bjørk – Department of Clinical Medicine

In collaboration with the Vascular Biology Program (VBP), Boston Children’s Hospital, CCBIO recently completed the second CCBIO INTPART long course CCBIO907. This year, the course was given in digital format, and it was well visited by local students and researchers, participants from other institutions all over Norway, and also from Finland, Sweden and Denmark, in addition to some from other... Read more

CCBIO Postdoc Katrin Kleinmanns, together with CCBIO PhD Katharina Bischoff and Researcher Vibeke Fosse, recently published 2 articles in EBioMedicine. Their work describing CD24-targeted near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging in patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC), confirms an improvement of cytoreduction of ovarian cancer in PDX orthotopic... Read more

The CCBIO International Faculty was established to support the Centre through active collaborations and strategic advice. In addition to the 13 already affiliated members, we have now recruited a new member, Marta Bertolaso from Rome, Italy, and have the pleasure of presenting her and her unique contribution to CCBIO.

CCBIO operates within the health services in addition to the Faculty of Medicine at the UiB and is subject to the guidelines issued by both institutions (see below links). As a consequence, we are reducing our activities accordingly. Please check the calendar for details. Notably, the CCBIO Annual Symposium and the Satellite Symposium have been cancelled.