News archive for Department of Clinical Medicine

KEFF Conference 2019 (02.04.2019)

This years' KEFF conference was held in Bergen on the 18th and 19th of March and was a great success with over 220 participants.

How to read a nutritional content table, and what you should pay attention to (01.03.2019)

– When a product is labeled with a keyhole, it does not mean that the product is healty, but that it is healthier than similar products, says nutrition experts Cathrine Horn and Vegard Lysne.

Big test of bars (01.03.2019)

- Two of these are as unhealthy as candy.

Fecal transplantation is good for abdominal symptoms for IBS patients (01.03.2019)

Placing stools from healthy people in the stomach improved both the symptoms and bacterial flora in the intestines of persons with a variety of irritable bowel syndrome.

Scenes from the symposium. Lecturer and audience.

"Google map" for tumors (17.02.2019)

The University of Bergen has just implemented the Hyperion Imaging System, next generation immunohistochemistry where researchers can explore tissue biology with 35 antibodies simultaneously. This instrument is the only of its kind in Northern Europe, and is open for booking for all researchers on equal terms.

Centre for Nutrition at the RStudio conference in Austin (24.01.2019)

Four PhD-candidates from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the RStudio conference in Austin last week.

Kryoimmunterapi-teamet i gang i operasjonssalen.

The Research Council of Norway continues to support next generation cryoimmunotherapy (CryoIT) (16.01.2019)

The Research Council of Norway has announced that 11 out of 87 received applications have been selected for funding in their programme called "High-quality and Reliable Diagnostics, Treatment and Rehabilitation (BEHANDLING)”. The project “Enhanced cryoimmunotherapy against urogenital cancers” by project leader Karl-Henning Kalland, CCBIO PI, was among the 11 selected projects and was one of two... Read more

Let them eat cake! (21.12.2018)

But elderly people can also eat more fish.

Norwegian research communities join forces to change new Open Access plan (20.12.2018)

The Norwegian Research Council and other European research councils are about to make a radical alteration of the scientific publishing model by forcing Open Access for all scientific work. The scheme is called Plan S. 27 Norwegian research leaders, including CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen, suggest changes to improve the European Plan S Open Access scheme.

Best presentation at the NSGO Annual Meeting (12.12.2018)

CCBIO PhD Candidate Hilde Engerud in the Gynecologic Cancer Research Group was awarded with Best Presentation at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics this fall, October 25 and 26 2018.

X-ray, tomography and MRI scans of the Human head

New support from Helse Vest (12.12.2018)

CCBIO Associate Investigator Daniela Elena Costea received support for 3 years (4.5 milion kr) from Western Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Vest) for the project "Defining molecular subtypes of head and neck cancer by integrative mutational, stromal and inflammatory landscape analysis".

Reflections from sabbatical at Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego (12.12.2018)

CCBIO Associate Investigator Dana Costea is currently on a sabbatical at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, and reports of a great learning experience on cell signaling and molecular techniques, collaboration strategies and leadership styles, the center’s exemplary way of collecting tissue samples from patients for research, amazing new colleagues, living in San... Read more

Centre for Nutrition at SAIGM-meeting (28.11.2018)

Centre for Nutrition participated at the Scandinavian Association of Neurogastroenterology and Motility (SAIGM) Meeting in Copenhagen.

Screen in conference room showing cityscape photo and title for the conference.

Three Scandinavian scientists invited to the third National Conference of the Chinese Society of Matrix Biology (22.11.2018)

CCBIO PI Donald Gullberg recently returned from an inspiring conference in China, where he was invited speaker for the third National Conference of the Chinese Society of Matrix Biology.

The body for adults: Dietary supplements and vitamins (19.11.2018)

Jutta Dierkes discussed dietary supplements and vitamins with Trond-Viggo Torgersen in his series about The body for adults at Litteraturhuset on November 13th.

Norwegian researchers will find out if microplastics are dangerous for us (12.11.2018)

Nobody knows the effect of micro plastics on our body. Now, Norwegian researchers have joined the hunt for answers.

A lot of people standing in front of the stand

Creative learning at the Research Fair (28.10.2018)

The annual public research event by the scientific and research community in Bergen, the Research Fair ('Forskningstorget'), took this year place September 21st and 22nd. The Bergen Gynecologic Research Group took responsibility for the CCBIO stand this year, and attracted great interest both from adults and the actual target audience, kids and youth.

Cod protein may prevent renal failure (25.10.2018)

Overweight rats fed on proteins from cod had better kidney function than overweight rats on a diet based on milk proteins, shows research by Oddrun Gudbransen at the Department of Clinical Medicine (K1).

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