News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Professor Jan Haavik has been given the Helse Vest Research award 2016 for his research on discovering biological mechanisms that can cause ADHD-symptoms. He was rewarded the prize during the annual research conference of Helse Vest.

Caroline Engen is a CCBIO PhD candidate who presented at the S.Net conference in Bergen. Her lecture was titled "Why Targeted Therapy May Not Work", and was part of the CCBIO session "The Transition from a Blockbuster Model to Personalised Cancer Therapy". We asked Caroline to walk us through a medical researcher's perspective of the conference and the use of new technologies.

11th October, CCBIO hosted a pre-conference event on the Ethical and Social Aspects of Cancer Research as part of the S.Net conference, of the Society for the Study of New and Emerging Technologies.

On September 22nd and 23rd, researchers from Global Health Priorities and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) co-organized a symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston (USA) on how to incorporate concerns to health equity into randomized control trials (RCTs).

Medical research student (Forskerlinjestudent) Amalie A. Svanøe was awarded with 3rd best oral presentation at joint International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology and the European Congress of Pathology, which took place in Cologne, Germany, September 25-29, 2016.

As @UiB tweeted last week, epidemiologist Ane Johannessen found that people who live close to busy roads found are most likely to snore.

Health registries contain a vast treasure trove of unique and valuable data; they are a national resource that give Norway a competitive advantage in a knowledge-based economy.