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Research meeting at Karolinska Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden

Research meeting at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden (23.09.2022)

Two new Centres of Excellence to the University of Bergen (23.09.2022)

Center for Digital Narrative and Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health have been awarded the status as Centres of Excellence (SFF) from the Research Council of Norway.

Participation of PER-IADR and hatton Award Winner to Shuntaro Yamada (23.09.2022)

Group members in the Tissue Engineering group at the University of Bergen participated in PER-IADR Oral Health research Congress in Marseille, France, between 15 and 17 September, 2022. IADR is the world largest dental research association, and PER-IADR is its European division, and there were participants not only from Europe, but from America and pan-pacific Asia regions.

Slide of: Sex differences in hypertension. BP, blood pressure; CV, cardiovascular; T2D, type 2 diabetes; OSAS, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; LVH, left ventricular hypertrophy; LV, left ventricular; LA left atrial; HFpEF, heart failure with preserved

High blood pressure develops differently in women and men and has different implications for the risk of organ damage and heart disease (23.09.2022)

Professor Eva Gerdts has together with international experts published an overview of current knowledge on sex differences in arterial hypertension.

BCEPS is awarded Centre of Excellence Status (20.09.2022)

The results are out and BCEPS is one of two centres at the University of Bergen to receive Centre of Excellence (SFF) status from the Research Council of Norway.

Carina Strell receiving flowers on stage by Lars A. Akslen, all smiling.

Official welcome to Carina Strell (16.09.2022)

Flowers and smiles were in abundance when CCBIO, the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Medial Faculty and the Trond Mohn Foundation welcomed Carina Strell to the University of Bergen in a CCBIO Startup Seminar August 25.

Welcome to the group, Kalyani! (15.09.2022)

Today, Kalyani Mukherjee joined our group as a PhD student, funded by a stipend by the Sigrid Jusélius foundation.

Structural biology of human myelin membrane proteins (13.09.2022)

Myelin is a crucial structure for the normal functioning of the vertebrate nervous system. Here, we have used multiple state-of-the-art technologies at large international research infrastructures, enabling methods not available in Norway, to obtain 3D structural information on some of the most hydrophobic protein molecules in the human body, which are responsible for the correct structure and... Read more

Physical fitness is particularly important for women with obesity (30.08.2022)

Senior researcher PhD Helga Midtbø presented new data from the FATCOR study at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona in August 2022. Her research demonstrates a higher level of inflammatory markers in the blood in obese women than their male counterparts

Center research presented at the European Society of Cardiology 2022 (30.08.2022)

PhD student Annabel Ohldieck presented her research at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Barcelona August 2022. She demonstrated that blood pressure in the forties is more important for risk of hypertension later in life in women than in men.

Center research presented at the NordicEPI (29.08.2022)

PhD student Marit Sandberg presented two posters from her research on pregnancy and complications in women with congenital heart research. Congratulations!

Grand opening of Center of Translational Oral Research (26.08.2022)

On 25th august, we held our grand opening for TOR.

An Interesting Experience during COVID-19 (26.08.2022)

From January-March 2022, Farhan Yusuf participated in a student exchange programme organised through a partnership between Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences (Tanzania) and the University of Bergen (Norway).

Life-GAP results at Nordic Lung Congress in Copenhagen (02.07.2022)

The 50th Nordic Lung Congress was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1st to 3rd June 2022. Among the presenters were PhD researcher Shanshan Xu from Life-GAP with exciting new results on long-term air pollution and greenness exposures in Northern Europe.

Maïlys (23) went to Ghana to see how the pandemic affected small fishing-communities (30.06.2022)

Several African countries are experiencing food-shortages and stop in trade as a result of the pandemic and closed borders. UiB-student Maïlys Rouillé went to West-Africa to do fieldwork among fish-traders who had their livelihoods reduced.

FREMFARM goes to EAFP2022 (30.06.2022)

After such a long time without being able to organize conferences in person, the European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP) managed to organize its annual conference in Malta in May. The FREMFARM team was there of course.

Making Sense of Science and Making Sense of Life (10.06.2022)

Friday June 10th, CCBIO and the Holberg Prize hosted a Special Seminar with the 2022 Holberg Laureate, Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) in conversation with Stephen Hilgartner (Cornell University). The seminar was called “Can science make sense of life?”, referring to Jasanoff’s recent and eponymous book. This was the first time the Faculty of Medicine had the opportunity to welcome a Holberg... Read more

Anti-Arc nanobodies as tools for structural and functional biology (07.06.2022)

Nanobodies are single-domain fragments obtained from camelid antibodies, which have high affinity towards their target protein. Two recent publications describe the development and use of nanobodies directed against the neuronal Arc protein to promote both structure determination, imaging and detection, and functional studies.

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