News archive for Faculty of Medicine

A fantastic and inspirational workshop of high scientific quality with participants from all over Norway and invited international experts from Spain, Italy and Iceland

On 15/04/2024 Prativa Basnet defends her PhD dissertation titled “Twin Pregnancies: Long-term Maternal Mortality, Birthweight in Subsequent Pregnancy and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Next Generation” at the University of Bergen.

The new Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, Alberto Ascherio, was head of the breakthrough showing that there is a connection between MS and the Epstein-Barr virus. In collaboration with researchers from UiB, he hopes that the next step will be to develop a vaccine against the disease.

Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt gave a humorous and inspiring lecture on sex and gender and understanding of different categories and dimensions

The pandemic center will lead a newly established working group on migration and pandemics on behalf of the European public health organization EUPHA.

The Brenk lab has co-authored a paper describing the EU-Openscreen fragment library.

New research indicates that muscle strength may play a more significant role in adult men's sexual lives than previously known. The researchers behind the study aim to break the taboos concering sexual dysfunction among men.