News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Three UiB communities apply for CoE status in education (10.05.2022)

The academic communities within the fields of pharmacy, computer science and interprofessional workplace learning in health want to become Centres for Excellence in Education (SFU). The initiative aims to strengthen the development of educational quality in many fields.

Bjørn Blomberg with an award for Publication of the Year (05.05.2022)

Influenza Centre team at the Bergen City Marathon (04.05.2022)

The Norwegian Health Association awarded the Heart Research Prize 2022 to professor Eva Gerdts (29.04.2022)

The prize was presented to her by His Majesty King Harald at a ceremony at The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo Thursday 28.04.22

Other means than medicines? (26.04.2022)

Helping using other means than medicines in services for patients with psychosis? Maneuvering decision making, guidelines and resources.

People who remained sick long after their Covid-19 infection often had alterations in their intestinal bacteria (25.04.2022)

Professor and leader of the Centre for Nutrition, Gülen Arslan Lied, have contributed in an article at forskning.no about at study of intestinal flora and Covid-19.

Welcome to the group, Maiken! (22.04.2022)

This week, Maiken Fridal Trones is joining us as a MSc student in our lab in Bergen. She will be working on some interesting mutants of Plasmodium actin.

Memorandum of Understanding between BCEPS (UiB) and Africa CDC (06.04.2022)

The agreement will strengthen ongoing work to improve public health in African Union (AU) member states and give more people access to basic health services.

High-resolution structures of malaria parasite actomyosin and actin filaments (04.04.2022)

Malaria is one of the most devastating infectious diseases in the world. The parasites causing malaria move by gliding, for which force is generated by an unusual actomyosin motor. We have determined high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the parasite actomyosin and actin filaments and a lower resolution reconstructions of the myosin light chains in the complex.

Fragment screening for pandemic prepardness (01.04.2022)

A large EU consortium got funding to integrated services for combatting current and future infectious disease outbreaks. BiSS is part of this consortium and offers fragment screening.

Communication report (31.03.2022)

New knowledge about important amino acids (30.03.2022)

Elaheh Mahootchi is defending her dissertation on 31.3.2022 at the University of Bergen with the title "Characterization of the PLP-dependent decarboxylases GADL1 and CSAD".

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2022 (29.03.2022)

Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions for 2022-2023. Deadline 15 June, 2022.

13th International Society for Priorities in Health Conference (25.03.2022)

Leading experts gather to discuss global health priorities. Do not miss the ISPH Conference from 28-30 April.

Female Heart Workshop 2022 (24.03.2022)

The Female Heart workshop takes place at Solstrand Hotel & Bad outside Bergen on May 19th and 20th 2022. The workshop is hosted by the Centre for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women at UiB and focuses on sex differences in cardiovascular risk and disease. The program includes lectures from key national and international researchers in the fields, and targeted group discussions for PhD... Read more

Appetite genes control how children grow (24.03.2022)

Researchers at Center for Diabetes Research, UiB, have found that the weight of babies is controlled by their genes. The findings provide insight into the mechanisms that control appetite and energy metabolism early in life and can help us find better treatment for obesity in adolescence and adulthood.

Rebecca Cox awarded Meltzer Prize (23.03.2022)

Post-doctoral (or graduate student) position in structural biology of parasite motility (17.03.2022)

We are looking for a post-doctoral fellow or possibly a highly-qualified PhD student for a 3-year project (with an option for an extension of one year) in my group at the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (FBMM), University of Oulu, Finland. The overall aim of my group is to understand the molecular mechanism of malaria parasite gliding motility. For this, we use a wide variety of... Read more

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