News archive for Faculty of Medicine

A group picture of the PhD candidate, evaluation committee, chair, and supervisors.

A PhD candidate from the GAP research group successfully completed the defense (28.12.2024)

Shanshan Xu of the Greenness, Air Pollution, and health (GAP) research group at the University of Bergen successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Effects of long-term air pollution and greenness exposures on mortality and respiratory health. The Life-GAP project" on 16 December 2024.

PhD fellow Lisa M. D. Grymyr defended her doctoral thesis (16.12.2024)

Another PhD fellow completed her thesis at Center for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women. Lisa Grymyr received a PhD scholarship from Helse Vest. Her thesis was entitled: Left ventricular mechanics and oxygen demand in patients with severe obesity undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

Anti-CNPase nanobodies light up myelin (11.12.2024)

CNPase is an enzyme present at high levels in myelinating cells. Novel nanobody tools developed in an international collaboration were used to identify binding epitopes at atomic resolution and visualise myelin. Additionally, the nanobodies were used as intrabodies to bind to CNPase in living cells. These nanotools will be valuable for future research on myelin and its molecules.

Top European grants to the University of Bergen (02.12.2024)

Associate Professor Marc Vaudel and Professor Linda Gröning at the University of Bergen have each been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant.