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The art of writing a scientific paper (15.12.2017)
The Centre for Cancer Biomarkers hosted a two-day seminar in scientific writing December 13th and 14th, and the massive interest proves that this is an issue both students and researchers feel the need to learn more about.
Sigmund Ytre-Hauge
RSNA 2017: Explore.Invent.Transform (15.12.2017)
PhD candidate Sigmund Ytre - Hauge presented his work at the 103rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
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Important DCP-3 summary published (04.12.2017)
Professor Ole Frithjof Norheim is co-authoring a new Lancet article giving recommendations on how to organize the Disease Control Priorities findings to best promote universal health coverage.
Group photo of the candidate with opponents and supervisors.
Targeted treatment for uterine carcinoma (16.11.2017)
Mari Kyllesø Halle defended her thesis "Molecular alterations suggesting new treatment strategies in uterine carcinomas" at the University of Bergen November 10th 2017.
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The Science-Society Interface Discussed at FEBS Meeting in Barcelona (14.11.2017)
How do we achieve a real dialogue between Science and Society? What are scientists' responsibilities in this regard? These questions were discussed at a Round Table event 26 October 2017 at the "FEBS3+" conference in Barcelona, gathering biochemists and life scientists from France, Portugal and Spain.
Group photo of the candidate with opponents and supervisors.
Biomarkers in aggressive breast cancer (13.11.2017)
Kristi Krüger defended November 8th her dissertation “Markers of angiogenesis and the basal-like phenotype of breast cancer”. The study has given increased knowledge of the aggressive basaloid type of breast cancer.
Research presentations
The Annual Research Presentations (09.11.2017)
Are you a scientist affiliated to one of the clinical departments (K1, K2) or Helse Bergen?
Ingvild Løberg Tangen posing with her diploma.
Best oral presentation prize at the ESGO to CCBIO postdoc (09.11.2017)
Postdoc in the Bergen Gynecologic Cancer Research Group, Ingvild Løberg Tangen, was awarded with the best oral presentation prize at the ESGO (European Society of Gynaecological Oncology) congress for the presentation : “Expression of L1CAM in curettage or high L1CAM level in preoperative blood samples predicts lymph node metastases and poor outcome in endometrial cancer patients”.
PhD candidate presenting her poster
Global mental health research group present at the 10th ECTMIH (23.10.2017)
The Global Mental Health research group was present at the 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health (ECTMIH), in Antwerp, Belgium.
Night skyline of Brisbane, Australia.
CCBIO presence at the 9th World Congress of Melanoma (23.10.2017)
CCBIO had two representatives presenting their research at the 9th World Congress of Melanoma in Brisbane, Australia, October 18-21, 2017.
The crystal imaging system at BiSS
Crystal plate imaging system installed (20.10.2017)
A state-of-the-art imaging system for high-throughput crystallization experiments has been installed at BiSS at the Department of Biomedicine. The system is capable of imaging samples using both visible and UV light. The imager is a significant addition to the crystallization laboratory as well as BiSS, providing a seamless workflow from the Mosquito LCP pipetting robot to automated imaging. It... Read more
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Workshop in Structural Bioinformatics (11.10.2017)
The Workshop in Applied Structural Bioinformatics will be organized at the University of Bergen October 16-20. This workshop will provide a practical introduction to popular tools for biomolecular visualisation, analysis and simulations. Lectures will be given by both international and local speakers from the research fields of structural bioinformatics and computer-aided drug design.
Siddharth Shanbhag mottar Nordic Hatton Award
Award to PhD Candidate Siddharth Shanbhag (11.10.2017)
Siddharth Shanbhag has received the prestigious Nordic Hatton Award 2017
Audience The 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017 (05.10.2017)
27-28 March 2017, Silversprings, Kampala, Uganda 2nd National child and adolescent mental health conference 2017
Joyce Nalugya presenting group work
Mental health and child development in societies of change (28.09.2017)
One of the courses in the Bergen Summer Research School was arranged by the global mental health research group.
Getachew TESHOME and Lelisa FEKADU
Meet Some Capacity Builders (26.09.2017)
Five «students» been selected to take part in the capacity-building project funded by the Gates Foundation. Here we meet Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome.
Global Health Priorities
It’s unfair - not everybody who is sick in Ethiopia gets medicine! (26.09.2017)
Researchers from the Global Priorities research group and the Gates project have prepared an activity to help Norwegian 7th graders in Bergen understand global health inequalities.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)

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