News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Andjelka Cvijic defended her thesis for the PhD-degree at the University of Bergen on the 18th of June 2025. The title of the thesis is: "Bridging Knowledge and Practice in Dental Traumatology. An Education Intervention Study in the Norwegian Public Dental Services”.

The human genome was sequenced many years ago and our ~20.000 genes are mostly defined. However, a large portion of our proteins, the products encoded by the genes and involved in all biological processes, remain functionally unexplored. University of Bergen researchers recently solved the structure and function of another uncharacterized human protein that turns out be linked to kidney disease.

Getting started on a manuscript or scientific text can often feel like the hardest part. Wouldn't it be great to have expert guidance to kickstart the process? That’s exactly what seventy-five students and several researchers signed up for when they filled the auditorium for this year’s CCBIO908 Scientific Writing & Communication Seminar, held May 20–21, 2025.

This April, the CCBIO cup traveled far beyond its usual surroundings—all the way to the Himalayas, accompanying CCBIO Principal Investigator Professor Daniela Elena Costea from the University of Bergen (UiB) on a remarkable health charity mission. The destination: Manang, a remote village located at 3,540 meters in the mountains of Nepal.

On June 10, 2025, the Research Council of Norway announced funding for new projects in the FRIPRO scheme. Of the 3 awarded projects to the UiB, CCBIO Postdoc Harsh Dongre in Dana Costea's group received 3-year project support with international mobility.

For the first time, a Nobel Symposium has been dedicated to Multiple Sclerosis (MS), bringing global experts to Stockholm on June 2–5, 2025. Hosted at the Karolinska Institutet, the symposium - “Multiple Sclerosis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Disease-Modifying Treatments” - features leading researchers from Europe and the U.S., including several key members of the EBV-MS consortium.

PhD fellow Aistėja Šelmytė-Besusparė had her first international poster presentation at the 2025 European Society of Hypertension meeting in Milan