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Professor Ane Johannessen, the head of the Greenness, Air Pollution, and health (GAP) research group, is partner in the Climate Health Initiative (CHI) at the University of Bergen (UiB).
The Greenness, Air Pollution, and Health (GAP) research group helped organised a significant hot topic session at the European Respiratory Society Congress (ERS) 2024 in Vienna, emphasizing the transformative potential of urban environments for respiratory health.
PhD students Shanshan Xu and Robin Mzati Sinsamala, from the Life-GAP project presented their research at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria, in September 2024.
Research groups from across Europe met in Vienna, Austria, to enhance collaboration on key respiratory health projects.
The Aarhus RHINE study centre in Denmark hosted this year's Annual Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) meeting on 15-16 April 2024.
In September 2023, the Greenness, Air Pollution and health (GAP) research group presented their latest research at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Milan, Italy, focusing on the environmental exposure to air pollution and greenness on health outcomes.
PhD students Shanshan Xu and Robin Mzati Sinsamala, from the Life-GAP project, have participated in the 35th annual European Education Programme in Epidemiology (EEPE), held from 19 June to 14 July, 2023.
Master's student Camilla Anna Simonelli from the University of Pavia will spend the next half year at the Pandemic Centre. There she will finish her thesis focusing on the use of AI-models in health care trained on pandemic data.
Our team just published a paper reviewing the genetics of hip dysplasia. Although several papers summarizing the field have previously been published, this paper critically reviews the field with regards to statistical power and other factors highlighting the need for larger studies.
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.
There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).
PhD-candidate at IKO, Åshild Johansen, attended the CED/NOF-Oral Health Research Congress in Geneva 12-14th September. She participated and won the Nordic Hatton competition, together with PhD-candidate Ingrid Beate Ringstad from the University of Oslo. As part of the prize, they will travel to Barcelona in June next year to compete in the international Hatton grand finale at the IADR General... Read more
Congratulation to José Miguel Godoy who won the prizes for best 3-min presentation at the Biocat conference last week.
The new European Society of Cardiology guidelines were presented at the largest cardiology conference in the world, ESC 2024 in London
Researchers at the University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health have studied the relationship between levels of environmental pollutants in the blood and pubertal development in 300 boys in Bergen, Norway. The results showed that those with higher levels of pollutants entered puberty later.
Center for research on Cardiac Disease in Women celebrates its 4th year anniversary. We celebrate this achievement with interviewing Helga Midtbø who has been appointed as the Grieg associate professor in cardiology at the Center
Bjørn Steiner Lillås
New PhD using deep learning to analyse multiparametric MRI images to grade and track tumour cell spreading in the brain.

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