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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
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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
a doctor writing on a laptop.
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)
lancet paper
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.
pop art illustration of people in dialogue, not agreeing.
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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