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Sunset photo from Rome.
Annual Scientific Congress 2024 Hosted by the Italian MS Society in Rome (May 28th-30th) (19.06.2024)
From May 28th to 30th, EBV-MS Partner Paola Zaratin, along with the Italian MS Society, hosted the Annual Scientific Congress 2024. Notable attendees included EBV-MS Project Coordinator Kjell-Morten Myhr, Deputy Project Coordinator Øivind Torkildsen, and project partner Marco Salvetti from Sapienza University of Rome, all invited by the Italian MS Society, ensuring significant representation from... Read more
Illustration of a board meeting room.
Inaugural Session: Our First Meeting with the Scientific Advisory Board (19.06.2024)
On Wednesday, June 5th, 2024, a productive introduction between the consortium and the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) was conducted during a recent gathering. The meeting marked a positive commencement of the collaboration between the SAB and the members of the EBV-MS project.
Collage of meeting participants and speakers.
EBV-MS Kick-off: January 23rd -24th (19.06.2024)
On Tuesday, January 23rd, and Wednesday, January 24th, 2024, the EBV-MS project successfully held its inaugural kick-off meeting. This meeting provided an opportunity for the project team to get acquainted, share insights, and set goals. The program was structured to cover various aspects of the project, including the introduction of partners, presentation of work packages, and discussions on... Read more
Climate and health event Pandemic Centre
Climate and health on the agenda (18.06.2024)
In order to coordinate efforts around research in climate and health, the Bjerknes Centre and the Pandemic Centre organized the Climate and Health Initiative on June 14th. Held at Alrek, the session brought together experts and community members to discuss the critical links between climate change and health.
Photo of Ole and Heidrun working in the lab.
Nerves can affect breast cancer (18.06.2024)
The doctoral work of Ole Vidhammer Bjørnstad, which includes three coming scientific papers, has shed light on the occurrence of neural precursor cells in breast cancer, and the interactions between neural precursor cells and breast cancer cells.
members of the renal research group together with Prof. lx and Prof. Hallan.
Prof. Joachim lx (UC, San Diego) & Prof. Stein Hallan (NTNU) vist the Renal Research Group (UiB) (17.06.2024)
Prof. Ix is Professor and Division Chief in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension (UC San Diego) & Prof. Stein Ivar Hallan (Specialist in internal medicine, kidney diseases and clinical chemistry) were both visting the Renal Research Group at University of Bergen to discuss future collaboration between the three research groups (June 10th 2024).
Lisa Aaslestad foran en skjerm med presentasjon av masteroppgaven hennes.
Completed Master on Wearable sensing-driven assessment of REM sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson’s Disease (13.06.2024)
Congratulations to Lisa Aaslestad at SEFAS and IGS with her completed Master degree - and with the best assessment (A)! Her thesis is called "Bridging Gaps: Wearable sensing-driven assessment of REM sleep behavior disorder in Parkinson’s Disease. Results from the DIGI.PARK study", and in her project, Lisa has looked at sleep behaviour disorders in Parkinson's disease and how the use of wearable... Read more
Portrait photo of Bob Langer at the CCBIO symposium.
The 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience awarded to Professor Robert S. Langer (13.06.2024)
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters June 12th announced the 2024 Kavli Prize Laureates in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Among these are Robert S. Langer (USA), sharing the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Armand Paul Alivisatos (USA) and Chad A. Mirkin (USA).
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR 2024) April 5-10, 2024 (11.06.2024)
It was a great privilege to participate at ‘AACR Annual Meeting 2024’, a large and important conference for cancer research, the place where scientists, clinicians, survivors, and patients, gather to share and discuss the latest breakthroughs.
Ester Kringeland
Excellent lecture at the European Society of Hypertension by Ester Kringeland (10.06.2024)
She was invited to shear the results from her publications on sex differences in hypertension based on the Hordaland Health Study
Jeanette sitting with her computer in the group meeting, with the view of the fjord from Solstrand Hotel in the back.
Patient involvement in cancer biomarker research is a work in progress (05.06.2024)
Although patient involvement in research was not part of the program at the 12th CCBIO Annual Symposium, it is a topic CCBIO will give more attention to. We had a chat with a user representative who participated at the symposium, and who is also contributing in one of our research projects.
Gruppebilde av medlemmene i prosjektet Food4HealthyLife
Dietary calculator: What are the user expectations? (05.06.2024)
On May 22nd, the Food4HealthyLife team organised a workshop at Alrek helseklynge in Bergen to learn more about what end users might expect from a healthy eating tool in a mobile phone app.
The SAB members and the CCBIO management standing on the stairs outside the Solstrand Hotel.
Continuing a strong cancer research network (05.06.2024)
The 12th CCBIO Annual Symposium has recently taken place, with a program showcasing current cancer biomarker research. This was the final symposium in CCBIO’s 10-year period funded by the Research Council of Norway as a Centre of Excellence (CoE), however not the last. CCBIO will continue its core activities, maintaining what has become a strong cancer research network.
Collage of all group members.
Targeting tumor aggressiveness in young breast cancer patients (05.06.2024)
Although CCBIO this summer completes its 10-year appointment as Center of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway, the center will continue its activities, and so do all the research groups and collaborations that have been established through these years. It has been a privilege for the CCBIO leadership to follow these groups from the very beginning and watch them grow and now continue to... Read more
Group of people walking
Hope, science and summer research school (04.06.2024)
“There is hope in science and research”, said Rector Margareth Hagen in her welcome address to the one hundred PhD candidates from more than thirty countries taking part in the seventeenth Bergen Summer Research School.
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Collage of photos from the CCBIO annual symposium 2024.
Discussing current cancer biomarkers at CCBIO’s 12th Annual Symposium (29.05.2024)
The 12th CCBIO Annual Symposium took place May 14-15, 2024, at Solstrand outside of Bergen in excellent weather, facilitating a radiant frame for networking and meetings in the sunshine during the breaks. The program showcased current cancer biomarker research as well as taking a step back considering global perspectives on cancer.
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Congratulations to PhD Annabel Ohldieck for very good performance at her midway evaluation! (29.05.2024)
Associate professors Tine Karlsen and Gerhard Sulo evaluated PhD fellow Annabel Ohldieck’s studies on sex differences in the association of blood pressure with organ damage

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