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Olga sitting on a wall with landscape in background.

Mapping oral cancer prevention in Eurasia countries (18.09.2019)

The collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia is an important internationalization project financed by DIKU through the Eurasia program. Within this project, UiB/CCBIO is currently hosting a master student, Olga Golburean, a graduated dental hygienist who is taking her master degree in global health with Professor Dana Costea... Read more

collage of photos from Boston, and the 3 intern students.

Boston summer interns (18.09.2019)

This summer, CCBIO sent their second batch of students to be Boston summer interns in the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART collaboration. Read the full report from Hanna Dillekås, PhD candidate in Oddbjørn Straume’s group, Ridhima Das, PhD candidate in Dana Costea’s group, and Amalie Fagerli Tegnander, medical student affiliated to Lars A. Akslen's group, in Elisabeth Wik’s project.

IGS General Assembly 27 Aug. 2019 (29.08.2019)

The second semi-annual IGS General Assembly for 2019 was held 27 August. The meeting highlighted the changes to the PhD regulations, an update on Alrek (plan is that IGS takes over 10 August 2020!) and Per Bakke, the Dean of the Medical Faculty, presented some of the most important take-home messages from the new UiB Strategy.

New research article on selectivity (20.08.2019)

Our new paper on entangling selectivity determining features and on how to use this knowledge to design selective ligands has been published in J Med Chem!

Conversations about sex need multi-level approaches (08.07.2019)

CIH/CISMAC researcher, Joar Svanemyr has published about his work with the RISE project in Zambia. The paper is also presented in the UK edition of the Conversation.

Vegard Lysne og Anthea Van Parys på Homosystein-konferanse

Centre for Nutrition at the Homocysteine conference (30.06.2019)

The PhD-candidates Vegard Lysne and Anthea Van Parys, from the Centre for Nutrition, participated at the Homocysteine conference in Virgili, Spain.

Award to PhD candidate Jannika Paulamäki (26.06.2019)

Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials 2019 Conference was organized in Långvik, Finland. The three-day conference was attended by some 100 people and 28 presentations were given internationally from Singapore all the way to Colorado. Conference also held a poster session showing 58 posters.

Beyond our randomized controlled trials … (19.06.2019)

CISMAC meeting 13-15 June, Bergen – some “take-home” messages

Hilde Engjom received the Marie Spångberg award for 2018 (17.06.2019)

Engjom is first author on the article "Risk of eclampsia or HELLP- syndrome by institution availability and place and delivery – A population – based cohort study". The Marie Spångberg award is established by the Representative Body of the Norwegian Medical Association in connection with the 100 year anniversary in 1993 for Marie Spångberg. The first Norwegian woman to become a doctor.

Collaborating partners (17.06.2019)

BCEPS has several Norwegian and international partners

Impaired function of the NAA10 R83H variant

A novel pathological variant of the acetyltransferase NAA10 causes disabilities (13.06.2019)

N-terminal acetylation is a very common protein modification and NAA10 is the major responsible enzyme in human cells. Here we found a novel pathological NAA10 variant, NAA10 p. (R83H), in two boys with developmental delay and intellectual disabilities.

Matrix biology course with international top-speakers successfully completed (11.06.2019)

The week-long matrix biology (BMED904) course was held for 4th time at the Dept. of biomedicine and next BMED904 course will be given in June 2021.

CISMAC Annual Report 2018 Available (06.06.2019)

While new funding models are making the future of global health research more uncertain, government leaders around the world are increasingly recognising the importance of using research-based evidence in policy-making – the kind of evidence that CISMAC projects are generating.

CISMAC Systematic reviews and meta-analyses course

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses course (06.06.2019)

CISMAC, one of UiB’s SFFs, is committed to training the next generation of research leaders involved in improving mother- and child-care in low- and middle-income countries. June 2019, the CIH-CISMAC Research School hosted a course in systematic reviews and meta-analyses, as it is important that health care professionals understand what systematic reviews are, and know something about how to... Read more

Cleaning can be bad for your health?? (31.05.2019)

Professor Cecilie Svanes’ research results went viral, and have been discussed in the British Parliament and in the popular press.

Lifestyles and behaviours impact health across several generations (31.05.2019)

Professor Cecilie Svanes at the Centre for International Health is a specialist in pulmonary and internal medicine. She shared the most recent results from several large studies, which seem to indicate that the pre-adolescent health and behaviour of fathers is a critical window for optimising the health of future generations.

CCBIO Annual Report 2018 (27.05.2019)

The CCBIO Annual Report 2018 is now available!

The structure of the enzyme implicated in phenylketonuria (PKU) (23.05.2019)

The structure of full-length phenylalanine hydroxylase in complex with the cofactor BH4 is presented in the most recent issue of PNAS. As the cofactor is also used as a therapy for PKU, this structure is of medical importance.

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