Faculty of Medicine

The Faculty of Medicine is one of 7 faculties at the University of Bergen, and has about 1900 students. The Faculty consists of 5 departments, which provide the foundations for its teaching and research activities.

The Faculty of Medicine offers courses and degrees at Bachelor's, Master's and PhD level.

Prestigious cancer award

King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research 2021 to Bjørn Tore Gjertsen

The Norwegian Cancer Society announced September 2nd that this year’s King Olav V's Prize for Cancer Research will go to Professor Bjørn Tore Gjertsen. The award amounts to 1 million NOK, is considered as a great honor in the Norwegian research communities and goes to the very best in the...

News | Research

UiB-researchers selected as "Visionaries of the Quarter" for European Vision Institute

Meg Veruki and Espen Hartveit from the Department of Biomedicine at UiB have been selected as "Visionaries of the Quarter" by the European Vision Institute for the summer of 2021.

News

ME associated with cellular energy strain

Professor Karl Johan Tronstad at the University of Bergen has supervised a study which found biochemical changes in the blood of ME patients. The results support the hypothesis that the disease involves impaired cellular energy metabolism.

Research

Charalamopos Tzoulis i labben. Han står med armene i kors mellom to store sprossekledde vinduer og ser rett inn i kamera. Bak ham kan man se divere utstyr til labben. Utenfor er det grønt og frodig, man kan se hus oppover skråningene.

"Neurodegenerative diseases remain an unsolved mystery"

Professor Charalampos Tzoulis stresses that neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and ALS, represent a global health emergency that can only be tackled through extensive research.

Nyhet

Information to students and employees about the coronavirus

The Norwegian government has decided that all universities are to close from 6 p.m. 12 March 2020 until Easter. The Faculty of Medicine provides information on how to deal with the outbreak of the coronavirus as a student and as an employee.

Calendar

Trial lecture – Moses Musiime

Digital meeting room

22.09.2021 10:15–12:15

Add to calendar

Bikuben, Jonas Lies vei 69, Haukeland University Hospital

Pediatric cancer research and precision medicine in Norway (Conference)

12:00–16:15

Zoom Webinar

BBB seminar: Johannes A. Eble (Seminar)

14:30–15:30

Digital meeting room

Doctoral defense – Moses Musiime (Disputation)

10:15–13:15

For access to the digital meeting, see press release

Trial lecture - Elisabeth Kjelsvik Steinsvik (Trial lecture)

10:15–11:15

Doctoral education

The aim of the research program at the Faculty of Medicine (the PhD degree) is to qualify the candidate for research activities and other work requiring a high level of scientific insight within the Faculty's research fields.

The Faculty of Medicine also administers the dr.philos. degree, which is an independent degree without supervision and organised research training. The two degrees are considered equal in status.