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Apply for funding for women's health research through the call: Grand Challenge on Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women's Health.
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
PhD fellow at the Pandemic Center, Pierina Benavente Velando, is the first author of a study published in October.
Physical abuse and sexual assault may be linked to the development of endometriosis, a recent study shows. – Even those with a low genetic risk may be susceptible to developing the disease if they have experienced significant trauma, says lead author Solveig Løkhammer from the University of Bergen.
On February 29th and 30th, the 19th annual research presentations took place for participants in the Research School in Clinical Medicine. Numerous awards were handed out. See the award winners here!
Core members of the IP-future team gathered for the first IP-future meeting.
Professor Hrvoje Miletic and his team at UiB have made groundbreaking discoveries that could provide new answers to what makes malignant brain tumors grow. The goal is to improve both survival and treatment of brain cancer.
A recent qualitative study uncovers significant barriers that immigrants in Norway encounter in adhering to COVID-19 infection control measures, shedding light on the need for improved public health strategies and communication.
UiB researchers are behind a new discovery that tells us how associated neurodegenerative diseases might develop.
Shanshan Xu of the Greenness, Air Pollution, and health (GAP) research group at the University of Bergen successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Effects of long-term air pollution and greenness exposures on mortality and respiratory health. The Life-GAP project" on 16 December 2024.
12 mill NOK was today (Dec. 20, 2024) awarded to Lars A. Akslen and Heidrun Vethe from the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO) on the project "When breast cancer hits a nerve - neural involvement as a hallmark of tumor progression."
The Western Norway Regional Health Authorities (Helse Vest) has recently announced their project funding for 2025, and we are happy to see many Neuro-SysMed researchers in their announcement. In addition, other funding agencies have also granted support to our projects this fall.
CCBIO has a tradition of using the December meeting in its seminar series to add a different perspective and encourage our research environment to think outside of the box. This December, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Fran Balkwill, who has a unique experience in addition to her cancer research career.
The result of years of collaboration between CCBIO PI Jim Lorens and Rolf Brekken and other colleagues in the USA, Finland, Romania and Norway, is now published in Science Signaling, with research identifying nuclear AKT3 as a new biomarker of advanced malignancy and revealing the pathway that activates AKT3 to drive epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer.
CCBIO recently held its signature course Methods in Cancer Biomarker Research (CCBIO905), September 25-27, 2024, at Haukeland University Hospital, providing the attending students with a full panel of standard and advanced methods with relevance for cancer biomarker research.
This year, one of CCBIO's students got the opportunity to have a 3-month research stay in Boston, due to CCBIO's INTPART collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. PhD Candidate Tessa Lohr reports of a great experience, highly recommending it to other young researchers.
Another PhD fellow completed her thesis at Center for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women. Lisa Grymyr received a PhD scholarship from Helse Vest. Her thesis was entitled: Left ventricular mechanics and oxygen demand in patients with severe obesity undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

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