News archive for Faculty of Medicine

One of the things we have been missing a lot from "normality" is to visit our collaborators and friends and host them in our lab. As one step towards normal times, we had the pleasure to get Herwig Schüler from Lund to visit our lab in Bergen.

The results of a new clinical trial, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism, show that oral intake of nicotinamide riboside (NR) enhances NAD-metabolism in the brain of individuals with Parkinson’s disease, and shows promise as a potential therapy.

BCEPS and Africa CDC are looking for motivated candidates to work on generating evidence for defining and implementing essential NCD Universal Health Care (UHC) packages in Africa.

Article in Aftenposten comments on a study from Center for Diabetes Research published in Nature Genetics.

New research shows that two genetic variants contributes to extreme obesity in children.

The annual conference "Best Research Presentations" was held by Forskerskolen in Clinical Medicine the January 24.-26. at Haukeland University Hospital.

Five researchers from Center for Diabetes Research have contributed in a newly published diabetes study in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics. The study shows that mutations in so-called MODY genes are more frequent than previously assumed, and that not all individuals with these mutations develop diabetes.