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Camilla will explore the use of AI-models in health care (10.10.2024)

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.

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Genetics of Hip Dysplasia - A Systematic Literature Review (02.10.2024)

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.

Organize an event at Day Zero 2025! (25.09.2024)

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.

Success for the first innovation festival at UiB (24.09.2024)

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).

Åshild Johansen won the Nordic Hatton competition (23.09.2024)

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

Nanobodies in Protein Science and Beyond (20.09.2024)

Congratulation to José Miguel Godoy who won the prizes for best 3-min presentation at the Biocat conference last week.

Professor Eva Gerdts has together with other international experts published new European guidelines for management of high blood pressure (05.09.2024)

The new European Society of Cardiology guidelines were presented at the largest cardiology conference in the world, ESC 2024 in London

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Boys with higher levels of environmental pollutants enter puberty later (04.09.2024)

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.

Celebrating four years with high activity at the Center by the employment of the Grieg Foundation associate professor of cardiology (29.08.2024)

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

New Member of the Group (21.08.2024)

Bjørn Steiner Lillås

ChatGPT generated image of a brain with tumor cells

PhD defense - Saruar Alam (15.08.2024)

New PhD using deep learning to analyse multiparametric MRI images to grade and track tumour cell spreading in the brain.

The Politics of Mobility and Precarity – and the Alternatives (14.08.2024)

More than 250 migration scholars from around the world are gathered for the 22nd Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference, taking place at the University of Bergen, 14-16 August.

Mental Health Issues and Exposure to Violence Among the LGBPTIQ population in Nepal (05.08.2024)

Sexual or gender minorities in Nepal experience mental health issues due to widespread violence and stigmatization. A group of researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) and Nepal will investigate whether peer counseling can improve mental health and reduce exposure to violence for this group.

Exploring alternative directions towards a sustainable future (01.08.2024)

“The fact that we have just five years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goals should give us reason to pause — can we not do better?” asks Professor Birgit Kopainsky, who will lead Bergen Summer Research School 2025.

LocusZoom plot showing the region of COL11A1 and the genetic markers associated with hip dysplasia

The role of COL11A1 in hip dysplasia and secondary osteoarthritis (11.07.2024)

Our multidisciplinary research group aims to investigate pediatric hip disorders through multiple approaches. That is why our research includes genetic epidemiology with the purpose of unravelling why some individuals are prone to getting these disorders. Recently, we published a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) on hip dysplasia, implicating a collagen gene in the development of hip... Read more

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Relationship between neonatal ultrasound and radiographic findings in adulthood (11.07.2024)

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a congenital disorder in which the etiology, risk factors and life course are not fully understood.

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Largest ever genetic study of age of puberty in girls shows links with weight gain (08.07.2024)

Genes can indirectly influence the age at which girls have their first period by accelerating weight gain in childhood, a known risk factor for early puberty, a study from the University of Bergen and University of Cambridge has found. Other genes can directly affect age of puberty, some with profound effects.

Unveiling the journey of ovarian cancer patients (28.06.2024)

Karen Rosnes Gissum defended June 28, 2024 her PhD thesis "Unveiling the Complexities: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Understanding and Managing Ovarian Cancer" at the University of Bergen. This is a unique CCBIO doctorate work focusing on the patient and healthcare worker perspective and not the actual research. Nevertheless, objective measures like biomarkers were seen as... Read more

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