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IGS General Assembly 8 Jan. 2020 (14.01.2020)

Summarising 2019 and looking ahead to 2020 at IGS

Lelisa Fekadu Assebe: Analysing communicable disease interventions (14.01.2020)

PhD Candidate, Lelisa Fekadu Assebe, is studying evidence-based, cost-effective policy-making and priority setting of public health interventions in Ethiopia that are addressing three major global health threats: malaria, HIV, and TB.

“Research is key to improving things” (10.01.2020)

Quote from Geir Gunnlaugsson’s First Opponent’s presentation during the Defence of CIH’s PhD Candidate, Justin Bruno Tongun.

Kangaroo Mother Care Reduces Infant Mortality (09.01.2020)

When newborn babies with low birth weight are held close to their mother´s bodies throughout the day, their chance of survival increases substantially.

Half of women with heart failure get the wrong treatment (03.01.2020)

As many as 50 per cent of women suffering from cardiac arrest are given insufficient treatment, because the heart failure was not caused by a heart attack.

Hani Gabra appointed CMO at BerGenBio (17.12.2019)

Professor Hani Gabra was recently appointed Chief Medical Officer at BerGenBio, based in Oxford UK. Professor Gabra has been part of CCBIO's network of international affiliated researchers since 2016, and considers his affiliation to CCBIO both an advantage and a prerequisite for his role as CMO for BerGenBio. He also finds there are clear opportunities for increased interaction between BerGenBio... Read more

Rewarding to have Medical Student Research Program students in the research group (12.12.2019)

Since CCBIO was established five years ago, 17 students in the Medical Student Research Program have been affiliated to the center's research groups, and several have proceeded to a PhD degree. The students in the program are genuinely interested and dedicated, but also lacking research experience and in need of close follow-up and mentoring. Nevertheless, CCBIO has very good experiences in... Read more

The image shows a stained cell with adhesion patches in red and actin cytoskeleton in yellow/white

TIRFing the Master’s degree to shore (10.12.2019)

Monica Hellesvik has been one of the pioneers to test the new TIRF microscope at the department. She needed to look closely at cell adhesive properties and the TIRF microscope was the perfect tool for it since it is particularly well suited for studying structures closest to the glass slides.

Summer School in Fibrosis Research, 2020 - CANCELLED! (09.12.2019)

Fibroblasts in fibrosis research

UiB-Bhutan collaborators participate in international conference (05.12.2019)

The Global Mental Health research group (GMHRG) at CIH is embarking on a collaboration with researchers from Bhutan. Together they were responsible for 2 presentations at the 5th International Conference on Medical & Health Sciences 2019.

From molecule to medicine (05.12.2019)

Martinez and collaborators are developing a pharmacological chaperone therapy for acute intermittent porphyria

A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)

UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.

Highlighted studies in neutron science and structural biology (23.11.2019)

The ILL brochures are meant for the general public with a scientific interest, and they cover the application of neutron techniques in different areas of research. The "Neutrons in Health" brochure is published every 5 years, and 20 topics are selected globally from top research performed at the ILL (Grenoble, France). Two of these 20 highlights in the latest issue are from our work on the... Read more

William Howlett receives President's award

William Howlett wins Irish Presidents award (21.11.2019)

William Howlett, a visiting researcher at CIH/IGS, has been awarded one of the 2019 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad.

GCF - Optimizing high throughput protocols and quality control steps (21.11.2019)

Congratulations to Rasma (21.11.2019)

VEGF-B overexpressing heart is sensitized to develop heart failure in DOCA-salt hypertensive rats

VEGF-B: A more balanced approach to cardiac angiogenesis? (20.11.2019)

A new study undertaken at UiB does answer one set of questions, however, raises many more with regards to the potential use of specific VEGF isoforms in order to promote re-vascularisation in heart failure.

Kick-off Workshop in Dar Es Salaam (15.11.2019)

Members of the NORPART-project recently met up in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, at a kick-off workshop to discuss the initial phases of the project work and plan future activities.

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