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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.
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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.
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Lower birth weight at delivery is linked to neurodevelopmental problems (02.03.2022)
UiB research shows that being born to term with a weight lower than 3,5 kilos is related to a higher risk of developing neurodevelopmental problems such as cerebral palsy and autism.
Studien var ledet av professor og overlege Charalampos Tzoulis (midten), sammen med senior forsker Christian Dölle (venstre) og overlege Brage Brakedal (høyre).
Targeting the brain's energy metabolism may hold the key for treating Parkinson’s disease (02.03.2022)
The results of a new clinical trial, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism, show that oral intake of nicotinamide riboside (NR) enhances NAD-metabolism in the brain of individuals with Parkinson’s disease, and shows promise as a potential therapy.
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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 Researcher Africa CDC
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.
Forskerskolen i klinisk medisin
Winners of The 16th Annual Research Presentations 2022 (15.02.2022)
Nøtter, bønner og linser
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.
Mohn senter for regenerativ medisin
Major investment in advanced cell therapy (31.01.2022)
The funding from the Trond Mohn Foundation will give researchers in Bergen the opportunity to develop new ways of treating chronic and acute wounds, bone damage and psychosis using stem cells. Many patient groups will benefit from the establishment of the regenerative medicine centre and its research.
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.
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Patients with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have a different composition of microbes in the airways (13.01.2022)
Patients diagnosed with the chronic and severe pulmonary disease Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have a different composition of microbes in the lower airways than healthy controls and patients with COPD, a study shows.
Studenter i Bergen
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".
overweight girl squeezing her belly
Obesity Might Lead To Cancer: Now We Know Why (12.01.2022)
Obesity increases the risk of developing more than a dozen types of cancer. Researchers from the Department of Medicine (UiB) have no shown that lipids associated with obesity makes the cancer cell more aggressive.
De forskerne sitter ved siden av hverandre i trappa i BB-bygget
New Knowledge About the Happiness Hormone Dopamine - Can Help Parkinson's Patients (12.01.2022)
New findings provide a better understanding of how the synthesis of dopamine is regulated in the brain. It may shed new light on the mechanism behind diseases such as Parkinson's.
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Roundworms can cause lower lung-function and asthma in younger males (04.01.2022)
Exposure to the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides among young men can cause a striking reduction in lung function and nearly five times higher odds of having asthma compared to the non-exposed, study shows.
Woman walking in park
Living Near Green Space May Be Beneficial Against PMS Symptoms (10.12.2021)
A study of more than 1,000 women in Norway and Sweden examines, for the first time, the positive impact of green space on psychological and physical symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.

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