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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
Choosing Between Starvation and Disease (04.10.2017)
Esprance Kashala-Abotnes, a CIH researcher, is training care-givers in DRC how to prevent Konzo Disease in very young Congolese children.
Justin Tongun poster at CAPGAN
CIH PhD Student Wins Poster Prize (02.10.2017)
Justin Tongun is a PhD student at the Centre for International Health (CIH). His home is in South-Sudan.
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.
Ugleprisen 2017
Pertinent and Innovative MOOC (18.09.2017)
UiB’s highest education prize for 2017, the Owl Prize, has been awarded to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Occupational Health in Developing Countries”.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
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Oral pathology collaboration project with Eurasia (16.09.2017)
UiB/CCBIO's Bergen Oral Cancer Research Group and Experimental Pathology Research Group received in 2016 3 million NOK in funding from SIU through the Eurasia program, to a collaboration project for education and research in oral pathology between Norway, Moldova, Belarus and Armenia. The project started off with a workshop in Bergen in 2016, and the Bergen researchers and educators have... Read more
TB project meeting May 2017
New TB test (15.09.2017)
CIH researcher, Tehmina Mustafa, has developed a new robust, rapid, sensitive, and specific test for TB, implementable in low-resource settings!
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Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (15.09.2017)
The 2016 Global Burden of Disease Study has been published as a special edition in the Lancet, and in a accompanying podcast you can listen to professor Ole Frithjof Norheim discussing Ethiopia's path towards the SDGs.
Two digitalized people looking at a digitalized globe.
The same principles behind the internet, social networks and biological networks (06.09.2017)
NORBIS, supported by CCBIO, DLN and CBU, hosted the “Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine” workshop at Grand Hotel Terminus in Bergen, August 23rd-25th 2017.
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New book from CCBIO (28.08.2017)
CCBIO with editors Lars A. Akslen and Randolph S. Watnick publishes a new book through Springer Publishing on August 31st. The title is Biomarkers of the Tumor Microenvironment - Basic Studies and Practical Applications. The book contains 22 chapters with more than 500 pages and multiple illustrations, with a general introduction to the topic (prologue) by Robert A. Weinberg. The foreword is... Read more
GEMNS prosjekt gruppen i Bergen
Article about Nano research group (17.08.2017)

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