News archive for Faculty of Medicine

MOOC on Developing and Testing Complex Healthcare Interventions (10.03.2022)

The course in "Complex Interventions" is now available on the Futurelearn platform. The course was previously an offer through the Norwegian PhD School of Pharmacy, which has funded the digitalization.

Studying and working abroad professionally and personally enriching (10.03.2022)

We’re so happy to have Lucia working with us in the Haavik lab this year. Check out her perspective on being a Fulbright Scholar.

Dr. Razia Fatima featured on TDR Global's compendium (09.03.2022)

Former PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Razia Fatima is one of fifteen female researchers interviewed by TDR Global at WHO's publication: Women in Science: A Storytelling Showcase.

Travel grant from the Meltzer Research Fund (08.03.2022)

Often our path seems rocky, at times completely lost, but sometimes we find pointers to some light at the end. Today, we were given a travel grant of 50000 NOK from the University of Bergen and the Meltzer Research Fund to enable data collection and collaborative visits to get some science done also this year.

Host Inari Kursula and speaker Herwig Schüler on top of Mount Ulriken

Back to normal (03.03.2022)

One of the things we have been missing a lot from "normality" is to visit our collaborators and friends and host them in our lab. As one step towards normal times, we had the pleasure to get Herwig Schüler from Lund to visit our lab in Bergen.

Center seminar on hypertension in women (01.03.2022)

Program: Monday 28.03.22 @ 12-13 Professor Eva Gerdts: Hypertension in women. Consultant PhD Grethe Åstrøm Ueland: Autonomous cortisol secretion – a new cause of treatment resistant hypertension in women? Plenary discussion. The seminar will be held in Norwegian

PhD and Research Positions in Collaboration with Africa CDC (25.02.2022)

BCEPS and Africa CDC are looking for motivated candidates to work on generating evidence for defining and implementing essential NCD Universal Health Care (UHC) packages in Africa.

From Bistandsaktuelt Photo: Reinhard Marscha / Imagebroker / NTB

Food safety and mental health interconnected (18.02.2022)

The global mental health research group requires focus on mental health while the Norwegian Government develops a strategy on food security.

Winners of The 16th Annual Research Presentations 2022 (15.02.2022)

Food pattern calculator estimates how to gain up to ten life years (09.02.2022)

Researchers at UiB have developed a calculator that can estimate how many life years you could gain by modifications in diet patterns.

Shoud we sacrifice health for the climate

Should we sacrifice health for the climate? (21.01.2022)

Healthcare is a place of healing, but as a major polluter it is also a source of harm. In this public science lecture, BCEPS PhD candidates Anand Bhopal and Emily McLean discussed the feasibility, responsibility and ultimate desirability of healthcare decarbonisation.

Diversity and Inequity in the Pandemic (13.01.2022)

The Pandemic Centre collaborates with Centre for the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT) together with Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) in an interdisciplinary course "Diversity and Inequity in the Pandemic".

EMBO Workshop in Bergen (01.12.2021)

In June 2022, Bergen will host an EMBO Workshop focusing on biological regulation via proteins, more specifically protein ends. This emerging scientific theme will gather scientists from all over the world including more than 30 invited speakers.

Vaccine Research - past, present and future

Vaccine Research - Past, Present and Future (01.12.2021)

A recording of this interesting UiB seminar (in Norwegian) organised by the University of Bergen Faculty of Medicine on Saturday 20 November is now available on YouTube.

The Pandemic Centre starts interdiciplinary course to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic (01.12.2021)

In january the Pandemic Centre will offer a two-weeks course for students to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic. The course is open to both PhD-students and Master students from all diciplines at the university.

Strengthening the focus on Health Innovation (30.11.2021)

The PhD level course on Health Innovation, CCBIONEUR912, was kicked off November 8-9, 2021, at the facilities of the new medical incubator EITRI. CCBIONEUR912 is joining the course SDG900 as the second innovation course offering at UiB on the PhD level. It is the first PhD course on health innovation and thus an invaluable offering for medical researchers at the beginning of their research... Read more

TMS Starting Grant to Carina Strell (30.11.2021)

The Trond Mohn Foundation has now announced that Carina Strell will be one of three candidates at the University of Bergen (UiB) to be awarded with a TMS starting grant, for her project Understanding Early Breast Cancer Evolution in Space and Time (EvoMaps). Strell has a long-term collaboration with the Lars A. Akslen group at CCBIO, and her project will be embedded at CCBIO.

Screenshot from Zoom, with the speaker and a slide from the talk, showing microscopy imaging..

True believer in the magic of science (11.11.2021)

November 9, Professor Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, presented the Falch Lecture entitled "Creating and implementing breakthrough technologies in biotechnology and nanotechnology". Through a live streaming from MIT, the around 200 people in Store Auditorium enjoyed a truly inspirational talk, motivating them to pursue their ideas and keep asking the fundamental questions.

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