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David Lane on stage, talking with eager arm movements.
CCBIO crossroads at Solstrand (16.05.2025)
The 13th CCBIO Annual Symposium at Solstrand marks a shift in the strategy of the center, towards more focus on innovation and industry development.
Forsidebilde
Preparing for Health Crises in a Changing World: The Need for New Evidence (07.05.2025)
The Pandemic Centre is excited to invite to the 3rd International Conference in Bergen
Ass. Prof. Øystein Eikrem receives the prize of best research environment in 2024 at the Faculty of Medicine
Winners of 2024 Best Research Environment Prize at the Faculty of Medicine (29.04.2025)
The Renal Research Group wins the prize of the best research environment in 2024
Program for Bergen Meeting of Nephrology
Bergen Meeting of Nephrology 2025 (29.04.2025)
The Renal Research Group is organizing Bergen Meeting of Nephrology on May 8th 2025 at Haukeland University Hospital (B-302)
Fragment hits binding to FabF
Fragment screening by X-ray crystallography (08.04.2025)
This is the newest part of our journey to design FabF inhibitors with the goal to develop new antibiotics. Here, we have used X-ray crystallography to discover hit compounds which subsequently were optimized using analogue searching, chemical space searching and manual design.
Alberto Ascherio
UiB Honorary Doctor receives the annual "Breakthrough Prize" (08.04.2025)
Honorary Doctor at UiB, Alberto Ascherio, receives the prize for his groundbreaking research on MS.
Meeting between Zaharieva and Bertelsen
Oral health in focus at festival in Belgium (08.04.2025)
Did you know that poor oral health can be linked to diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and lung diseases? Professor Randi Bertelsen and PhD students Tuva Norderud Jensen and Anders Røsland recently participated in the Science Is Wonderful! festival in Belgium – an annual celebration of EU-funded research organized by the European Commission.
Ingrid Cardoso
Ingrid Cardoso is the new climate-health PhD at the Pandemic Centre (08.04.2025)
The medical doctor will explore how climate considerations can be integrated into healthcare governance.
Hildur Skuladottir
The need for a diagnostic code for lipedema (07.04.2025)
In the bymag.nos article "Kampen for diagnose" (Norwegian article) ("The Fight for a Diagnosis"), the challenges many patients face within the healthcare system are highlighted. Hildur Skuladottir, project leader for lipedema research at Haraldsplass, describes the lack of a diagnostic code as problematic, leading to patients not receiving the necessary help from the healthcare system.
Hildur Skuladottir
DRIV Attended the Annual Meeting of NKS Vestland in Bergen – April 5, 2025 (07.04.2025)
On Saturday, April 5, 2025, DRIV – Centre for Women’s Health Research was invited to present its work at the annual meeting of Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening (NKS) Vestland at Hotel Terminus in Bergen. It was an inspiring day filled with engaged participants and meaningful discussions about women’s health.
Gruppebilde foran hotellet Solstrand som viser den store gruppen som er tilknyttet prosjektet IP-future
IP-future inspire large-scale international collaboration (02.04.2025)
Norwegian and International collaboration partners gather for the first annual meeting in the IP-future project.
Group picture of six people: Juha Kallio, Marte Flydal, Aurora Martinez, Mary Dayne S. Tai, Kunwar Jung-Kc and Gloria Gamiz
Novel regulatory mechanism of dopamine synthesis (28.03.2025)
Our group Biorecognition, along with collaborators in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain, has published a exciting new study by Mary Dayne S. Tai et al. in Nature Communications (link below).
picture of Marit Sandberg, supervisors and comitee
PhD fellow Marit Sandberg defended her doctoral thesis on the 21.st of March (24.03.2025)
Marit Sandberg defended her PhD thesis: "Childbearing in women with congenital heart disease. A nationwide cohort study from Norway 1994-2014”
Title slide from Professor Ane Johannessen’s presentation at the CHI webinar, alongside a screenshot of her speaking during the session.
GAP leader presented at the Climate Health Initiative (CHI) webinar (21.03.2025)
Professor Ane Johannessen discussed air pollution, greenness, and respiratory diseases at CHI webinar #6.
forskergruppe
Human Diabetes Gene Protects Against the Disease in Mice (19.03.2025)
When researchers at the University of Bergen inserted a diabetes gene into mice, they were surprised by the result. The mouse pancreas was severely injured, but the animals were still protected against diabetes.
Ghazal standing in front of Harvard Medical School in her winter clothes, with snow on the ground and in the air.
Lab exchange at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (17.03.2025)
Over two months in October–December 2024, PhD Candidate Ghazal Lessan Toussi in Carina Strell’s group at CCBIO was given the opportunity to be on a research lab stay in Dr. Watnick’s laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, USA. This was organized in the CCBIO–VBP Lab Visit Program, which is part of the CCBIO INTPART collaboration. Ghazal returned with lots of new knowledge and... Read more
Photo of a whiteboard full of research subjects to be considered, written by Jidah Folkman in 2007. Never erased.
One year abroad as building block on a career path (17.03.2025)
CCBIO Postdoc Harsh Dongre is currently in his 11th month in Boston on his research year abroad. Now that he soon will be returning, we have asked him to reflect a little bit about doing a year abroad as part of a career path, why he chose Boston, and what he has been doing there.
Ane Johannessen og Merethe Hustoft fra TVEPS
RCN-millions awarded to TVEPS (13.03.2025)
Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning receives 12 RCN-millions for research. – This will enable us to perform valuable research and raise knowledge in this field, says Ane Johannessen, head of TVEPS.

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