News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Anti-Arc nanobodies as tools for structural and functional biology (07.06.2022)

Nanobodies are single-domain fragments obtained from camelid antibodies, which have high affinity towards their target protein. Two recent publications describe the development and use of nanobodies directed against the neuronal Arc protein to promote both structure determination, imaging and detection, and functional studies.

Isa defended her PhD - congratulations Dr. Pires! (04.06.2022)

On Wednesday June 1st, Isa defended her PhD at the University of Oulu. The opponent was Professor Alf Månsson from the Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden. We all could enjoy an interesting dialogue on myosins and motility, and Isa rocked all the way. Thanks to everyone involved and huge congratulations to Dr. Isa Pires!

organizing committee Female Heart Workshop 2022

Female Heart Workshop 2022 (03.06.2022)

A satisfied organizing committee after the very successful 6th Female Heart Workshop which was held at Solstrand Hotel May 19-20, 2022.

Eight new honorary doctors at UiB have been appointed (03.06.2022)

In a solemn ceremony in the University Hall, the eight new honorary doctors at UiB were honored. They received the award for their outstanding work for science.

Opening of the new Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance in Western Norway (02.06.2022)