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Collage of photos from the CCBIO Excellence seminar september 2018, people in different settings.
The road to excellence (27.09.2018)
19th September 2018, CCBIO hosted a Special Seminar on the issue of scientific excellence. Speakers Bruce Zetter (Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital), Merle Jacob (Lund University) as well as Lars A. Akslen (CCBIO) and Roger Strand (SVT/CCBIO) discussed different ways to conceptualise and achieve excellence, leaving the audience both inspired and a little thought-provoked.
DISKUSJON RUNDT BORDET: Fra venstre: Hanne Rosendahl-Riise, Anthea Van Parys, Randi Tangvik, Marte Trollebø og Gülen Arslan Lied diskuterte ernæringsfaglige spørsmål på U-heimen.
Network gathering at Ustaoset (18.09.2018)
Scientific employees and nutrition PhD-candidates from Centre for nutrition organized a professional and social gathering at U-heimen.
The 3 girls in a park.
Great learning experience for Boston summer interns (04.09.2018)
As a part of the CCBIO-Harvard INTPART collaboration, CCBIO PhD student Silje Kjølle and Medical Student Research Programme students Martha Rolland Jacobsen and Amalie Svanøe were given the opportunity to conduct summer internships at the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. They have now returned from Boston, and has provided us with a great report... Read more
PANEL OF EXPERTS: From left: Marion Solheim (moderator), Trygve Hausken, Anna Bistrup, Torgeir Storaas, Hanna Fjeldheim Dale and Rune Mentzoni utgjorde ekspertpanelet under foredraget Tåler det ikke! på Litteraturhuset 8. august.
Members from Centre for Nutrition at Litteraturhuset (28.08.2018)
Members from Centre for Nutrition participated in the panel of experts at the lecture "Tåler det ikke!" at Litteraturhuset on August 8th.
Vegard Lysne på FASEB-konferansen.
Centre for Nutrition at a conference (20.08.2018)
Members from Centre for Nutrition participated at the FASEB conference in Canada.
Andrey and Gayanna standing in front of their posters.
Guest students from Armenia in oral pathology project (14.06.2018)
Currently UiB/CCBIO have two PhD guest students from Armenia within a collaboration project promoting oral pathology and research (Eurasia program).
Building, Gustave Roussy hospital
Expat life in Paris – La belle vie à Paris (13.06.2018)
Former CCBIO Postdoc Agnete Engelsen was awarded a FRIPRO mobility grant from NFR/ MCA COFUND and is currently resident in France with her family to embark on exciting research projects with distinguished collaborators at Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus Grand Paris. We asked her to report of her life in beautiful Paris.
Almond trees blossoming
On sabbatical in Uppsala and California. (11.06.2018)
CCBIO PI Rolf Reed is currently on a sabbatical stay in the US, and we have asked him to share his experience with us.
group photo of speakers
Potential game changer in cancer testing (23.05.2018)
May and Solstrand showed off with blue skies and warm sunshine when CCBIO hosted the Liquid Biopsy Symposium May 22nd, a satellite symposium to the 6th CCBIO Annual Symposium 2018.
Dentist and patient in the clinic.
Oral cancer in Sudan (04.05.2018)
CCBIO PI Anne Christine Johannessen recently returned from a site visit in Sudan to follow up on a longstanding collaboration on oral cancer between Bergen and Khartoum. We asked her to tell us a little about the collaboration.
Group photo of the candidate with opponents and supervisors.
Prognostic biomarkers in non-small cell lung cancer (19.04.2018)
Maria Paula Ramnefjell defended April 10th 2018 her doctoral thesis "Prognostic biomarkers and clinico-pathologic characteristics in non-small cell lung cancer. A study with special focus on tumor-vascular interactions" at the University of Bergen.
Lars A. Akslen receiving the token of the award, a painting.
Honorary Member of the Norwegian Society of Pathology (20.03.2018)
The CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen was recently awarded as Honorary Member of the Norwegian Society of Pathology (DNP). Akslen has former been chairman of the association during two periods, 2008-2012.
Jarle Rørvik
Jarle Rørvik (1954-2018) (13.03.2018)
We have just received the very sad news that Professor Jarle Rørvik unexpectedly passed away on March 1st 2018.
Collage of photos from the 10th Cancer Crosslink, different speakers on the stage.
Cancer Crosslinks for the 10th time (14.02.2018)
This year, Cancer Crosslink was organized for the 10th time, and top-notch international speakers attended the meeting entitled “Precision Treatment: Exploiting Recent Advances – Fast and Furious?”. CCBIO postdoc and gynecologist Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen chaired the meeting together with Christian Kersten, oncologist at Center for Cancer Treatment, Sørlandet Hospital, Kristiansand.
Martha Rolland Jacobsen in front of her poster.
Developing a molecular diagnostic tool for oral cancer (19.12.2017)
Congratulations to CCBIO dental student Martha Rolland Jacobsen for the research dissemination prize at the research fair of the Medical Faculty’s recent Clinical Dentistry Week! Martha presented her research work, which is part of a larger research project that aims to combine the expression of 13 biomarkers known to play a role in the progression of OSCC, in order to develop a molecular... Read more
a doctor writing on a laptop.
The art of writing a scientific paper (15.12.2017)
The Centre for Cancer Biomarkers hosted a two-day seminar in scientific writing December 13th and 14th, and the massive interest proves that this is an issue both students and researchers feel the need to learn more about.
Sigmund Ytre-Hauge
RSNA 2017: Explore.Invent.Transform (15.12.2017)
PhD candidate Sigmund Ytre - Hauge presented his work at the 103rd scientific assembly and annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Group photo of the candidate with opponents and supervisors.
Targeted treatment for uterine carcinoma (16.11.2017)
Mari Kyllesø Halle defended her thesis "Molecular alterations suggesting new treatment strategies in uterine carcinomas" at the University of Bergen November 10th 2017.

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