News archive for Department of Clinical Medicine

New Study Challenges Assumptions About Single-Food Interventions for Blood Sugar Control in persons at risk of type 2 diabetes (30.06.2025)

UiB-lead study shows that simply replacing regular bread with a specially formulated oat β-glucan-enriched bread does not significantly improve long-term blood sugar control.

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To the Point—Scientific Writing and Communication Seminar with Christine Møller (19.06.2025)

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.

Collage with 3 photos: Dana in warn clothes, holding the CCBIO cup. Group photo of the doctors, smiling at the camera. Outside in the courtyard with one person giving information to the local residents.

From Bergen to the Himalayas: The CCBIO Cup Joins a Medical Mission to Nepal (16.06.2025)

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.

Two researchers in lab coats and face masks working in a lab, looking in a microscope and discussing. One of them is Harsh Dongre.

FRIPRO funding for a new frontier in cancer immunoediting (13.06.2025)

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.

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Nobel Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis Highlights EBV Link (03.06.2025)

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.