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CCBIO's 7th Annual Symposium (2019) (21.05.2019)

World leading cancer experts met at Solstrand: International top notch cancer researchers met at Solstrand to present their work at CCBIO's annual symposium.

Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2019 (13.05.2019)

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. Deadline 14 June, 2019.

Health inequalities – what research is needed? (10.05.2019)

Over 100 participated in Department Day 2019 at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care (IGS), 8 May. The goal of these annual events is to inform, inspire and engage those working at IGS, as well as helping to build academic and social bonds across different groups at the Department.

The DCP-E team outside Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Discussed Ethiopia´s health services at Harvard (15.04.2019)

A group of central researchers in the Gates funded project “Disease Control Priorities Ethiopia” (DCP-E) gathered at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the revision of Ethiopia's publicly funded health services package.

Establishing the groundwork for a new international partnership (12.04.2019)

One of the CIH’s most important resources is the many long-term, stable, productive partnerships Centre researchers have been able to establish with researchers and institutions in Africa and Asia.

Haplin power analysis: a software module for power and sample size calculations in genetic association analyses of family triads and unrelated controls (11.04.2019)

We introduce a new and complete tool in the R package Haplin for power and sample size calculations in genetic association studies, readily applicable to data in MoBa or Harvest. The article is published in BMC Bioinformatics

Back cover of April 2019 issue of Human Mutation

Novel interaction of the co-chaperone DNAJC12 with phenylalanine hydroxylase variants (08.04.2019)

Researchers from the lab of Aurora Martinez describe a novel mechanism for the degradation of enzymes involved in phenylketonuria and other neurometabolic disorders.

KEFF Conference 2019 (02.04.2019)

This years' KEFF conference was held in Bergen on the 18th and 19th of March and was a great success with over 220 participants.

NAA10 - A Jack-of-all-trades protein in human cells

A Jack of all Trades in Cancer Cells (14.03.2019)

Cancer is a complex disease caused by a multitude of factors gone wrong in the cell. NAA10 may be one such factor. This is a protein that performs many different tasks, including the most common which is catalyzing the acetylation of cellular proteins. NAA10 can therefore be viewed as a ”Jack of all trades”-protein. For two decades it has been linked to cancer progression, but recent data puts... Read more

How to read a nutritional content table, and what you should pay attention to (01.03.2019)

– When a product is labeled with a keyhole, it does not mean that the product is healty, but that it is healthier than similar products, says nutrition experts Cathrine Horn and Vegard Lysne.

Big test of bars (01.03.2019)

- Two of these are as unhealthy as candy.

Fecal transplantation is good for abdominal symptoms for IBS patients (01.03.2019)

Placing stools from healthy people in the stomach improved both the symptoms and bacterial flora in the intestines of persons with a variety of irritable bowel syndrome.

EU MAXIBONE General Assembly, Bergen (01.03.2019)

The first General Assembly of the EU Maxibone Project was held in Bergen from 11-12. February 2019.

Saving people from the harm of death, Oxford University Press

Saving people from the harm of death (22.02.2019)

This is the first volume to connect philosophical discussions on the harm of death with discussions on population health, adjusting the ways in which death is evaluated. Edited by post doc in the GHP Research Group Carl Tollef Solberg and associated member of the group Espen Gamlund (professor in philosophy). Foreword by professor of Moral Philosophy Jeff McMahan.

Gruppebilde fra deltakere fra seminaret i Bærum

Kick-start for a new study (20.02.2019)

LIVE@Home.Path - a new, innovative and multi-disciplinary study, focusing on home-dwelling persons with dementia.

Scenes from the symposium. Lecturer and audience.

"Google map" for tumors (17.02.2019)

The University of Bergen has just implemented the Hyperion Imaging System, next generation immunohistochemistry where researchers can explore tissue biology with 35 antibodies simultaneously. This instrument is the only of its kind in Northern Europe, and is open for booking for all researchers on equal terms.

Research coordinator Linn Knudsen in conversation with the expert panel

Explaining global health priorities (06.02.2019)

GHP kicking of Day Zero at the SDG 2019 conference with the "Global health priorities explained" seminar.

Ethiopia renews its commitment to Universal Health Coverage (28.01.2019)

The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia renews its commitment to actions towards universal health coverage (UHC). The re-definition of the Essential Health Service Packages (EHSP), which the Global Health Priorities Research Group is involved in, is defined as one of the most important steps forward.

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