News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Epidemiologist awarded honorary membership (30.10.2013)

Professor Grethe S. Tell is to become one of the first two women ever to be awarded honorary membership of the Norwegian Epidemiological Association.

Thorkild Tylleskär, Khalid Azim Mughal, Martin Chieng Were, and Peter Khisa...

Health care: an information business (28.10.2013)

Africa is technologically advanced in several areas, but woefully unprepared for technologies that could revolutionise its health care.

Sofia Frost Widnes' dissertation (22.10.2013)

Pharmacist Sofia Frost Widnes have investigated both the need for and risk perception of drug information in pregnancy. Friday 25. October 2013 she defended her thesis «Drug information in pregnancy - attitudes and needs among pregnant women and physicians».

PhD-candidate Kishan Chudasama and Professor Stefan Johansson have been...

2013: Impaiment of normal adipose tissue development can be tied to Insulin action (18.10.2013)

Obesity and diabetes are diseases that greatly increase worldwide. Adipose tissue is now recognized as a separate organ with complex metabolic processes. Understanding adipose tissue biology is important in order to develop better treatment strategies for obesity and diabetes.

Professor Rainer Oberbauer comes to Bergen the 18th of November (14.10.2013)

Professor Oberbauer from the Medical University of Vienna will talk about 'Systems biology of omics in kidney transplantation'

Trial lecture: Anne Baumann (11.10.2013)

Disputation: Anne Baumann (11.10.2013)

Fire in the blood. Picture from vimeo.com

BIFF sneak-preview (09.10.2013)

The Pharmacy Students' Committee (FFU) and the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (MOFA) together with Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) invites you to a sneak-preview of the movie "Fire in the Blood", Tuesday 15. October 2013, 6 pm in Auditorium 1 at BBB.

Enhancing research collaboration with UEA (08.10.2013)

Research Group in Social Pharmacy recently invited researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) to Bergen to discuss future research collaboration and how we can strengthen the research within social pharmacy and pharmacy practice at both institutions.

Poster prize winners at 11th Annual CHFR Symposium (07.10.2013)

Course in Small Animal MRI (03.10.2013)

The yearly Small Animal MRI course is now open for registration. It takes place 28th to 30th of October 2013 and you are encouraged to register as soon as possible as it is restricted to max 12 attendants.