News archive for Faculty of Medicine

New study: Conversion from clinically isolated syndrome to multiple sclerosis: A large multicentre study (24.02.2015)

Researchers at the Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research have contributed to an international multicentre study recently published in Multiple Sclerosis Journal.

11th MIC confocal microscopy course (17.02.2015)

MIC is happy to announce the 11th course in confocal microscopy 14th -17th of April 2015. Registration is now open and we encourage you to register as soon as possible as it tends to fill up quickly, deadline 20th of March. Max. 18 participants.

Portrait of Professor Arne Östman, combined with illustration of a dna string.

New professor II at CCBIO: Arne Östman (17.02.2015)

Professor Arne Östman from Karolinska Institutet is recruited in a 20% position as Adjunct Professor in Molecular Biology at CCBIO.

Disputation from CCBIO - Ida Wiig Sørensen (11.02.2015)

Ida Wiig Sørensen defended 12.02.15 her PhD thesis «Molecular Characterisation of Integrin a 11 Function» at the University of Bergen.

Pills against cancer (10.02.2015)

Medication that inhibit AXL effect is developed as pills and now in clinical trials.

Lars Akslen at "Filosofisk Poliklinikk" (09.02.2015)

Filosofisk Poliklinikk - "The Philosophical Polyclinic" - a Norwegian think-tank for medical philosophy - featured CCBIO Director Lars Akslen in their public meeting in Bergen on the 4th February. The meeting was one of a series of four on challenges of health prioritization.

New study in Nature Biotechnology: Better visualization of protein analyses and new bioinformatics tools contribute to medical research (04.02.2015)

Two ground-breaking articles in medical biotechnology from KGJ Centre for Medical Research and National Competence Centre for MS have recently been published in the well acknowledged journals Nature Biotechnology and Proteomics.

vinnere forskningspresentasjoner fra 2014

Winners of the Research Presentations from 2014 (03.02.2015)

And the winner is...

Research from Haukeland in the Media (02.02.2015)

From "Bergensavisen" (BA) 30.01.15: Forskning fra Forskerskolen på Haukeland: Renholdsarbeidere utsatt for astma og kols

The Vision 2030 innovation student competition (02.02.2015)

In a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you are invited to take part in a competition to create a smartphone app mockup for girls’ education. The app must be suitable for use both in Norway and in developing countries.