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Jarle Rørvik
Jarle Rørvik (1954-2018) (13.03.2018)
We have just received the very sad news that Professor Jarle Rørvik unexpectedly passed away on March 1st 2018.
More knowledge will reduce teenage pregnancies (07.03.2018)
CISMAC project in Zambia to be presented at the Christie Conference in Bergen
Et kengurusjal hjalp tvillingene inn i livet (07.03.2018)
CISMAC-forskere intervjuet i Bergens Tidende om metode for å redde tidligfødte barn
Launch of BCG study in Uganda (07.03.2018)
In 2015, it was estimated that 1 of 10 Ugandan children do not live beyond their fifth birthday and in total, 39,000 new-born die every year.
«Det aller viktigste framskrittet av alle» (07.03.2018)
Halvering i barnedødelighet er den mest grunnleggende positive endringen vi ser innenfor global helse, mener Dagfinn Høybråten, tidligere helseminister og styreleder for vaksinealliansen Gavi.
Equity indicators in randomised controlled trials (07.03.2018)
CISMAC co-organised a symposium on how to incorporate concerns to health equity into randomized control trials (RCTs)
Pregnancy and birth care in Burkina Faso (07.03.2018)
Reflections on the unintended consequences of the promotion of institutional pregnancy and birth care
Children of Peshawar, Pakistan
CISMAC study on child development (07.03.2018)
The CISMAC team is happy to announce the inclusion of a new study on child development in rural Pakistan.
School girls in Zambia
CISMAC Annual Report 2015 (07.03.2018)
In 2015, CISMAC scientists focused on finalizing formative research, protocols and instruments, and on obtaining ethical approvals. One of the studies started the recruitment of participants.
Can Chlorhexidine protect newborns from infections? (07.03.2018)
Visualization of all variants on chromosome 19
RareVariantVis: a new tool for visualization of causative variants in rare monogenic disorders using whole genome sequencing data. (07.03.2018)
A bioinformatic tool made by Tomasz Stokowy at the UiB Genomic Core Facility.
Woman cleaning
Household cleaning can be as bad as smoking for lung function (16.02.2018)
Cleaners who have regularly used cleaning sprays over 20 years were found to have reduced lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day over the same period, a UiB-study shows.
Collage of photos from the 10th Cancer Crosslink, different speakers on the stage.
Cancer Crosslinks for the 10th time (14.02.2018)
This year, Cancer Crosslink was organized for the 10th time, and top-notch international speakers attended the meeting entitled “Precision Treatment: Exploiting Recent Advances – Fast and Furious?”. CCBIO postdoc and gynecologist Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen chaired the meeting together with Christian Kersten, oncologist at Center for Cancer Treatment, Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand.
Confoal image processed in Imaris
14th MIC Confocal Microscopy Course (05.02.2018)
Open for registration, deadline 23rd of February.
Annonsering av seminar
A practical approch to STED-imaging (18.01.2018)
IGS fagområder
IGS General Assembly 10 Jan. 2018 (15.01.2018)
Summarizing 2017 at IGS
Kalfarveien 31
Funding opportunities in Health (H2020) 2018-2020 in an IGS possibility perspective (21.12.2017)
Here are the presentations from the research seminar December 13, 2017.
Martha Rolland Jacobsen in front of her poster.
Developing a molecular diagnostic tool for oral cancer (19.12.2017)
Congratulations to CCBIO dental student Martha Rolland Jacobsen for the research dissemination prize at the research fair of the Medical Faculty’s recent Clinical Dentistry Week! Martha presented her research work, which is part of a larger research project that aims to combine the expression of 13 biomarkers known to play a role in the progression of OSCC, in order to develop a molecular... Read more

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