News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Bente E. Moen is appointed chair of the steering group at Center for research on cardiac disease in women

Congratulations to BCEPS PhD candidates Lelisa Fekadu and Getachew Teshome on successfully defending their doctoral theses this spring.

With the pandemic hitting the world in March 2020, we have put a rather different and challenging year behind us, but with our dedicated staff working relentlessly, CISMAC’s activities have powered through.

A broad range of renowned international cancer scientists gave talks at the 2021 CCBIO Annual Symposium, which for the very first time was held as a fully online event.

Four of the five most popular master programmes among international applicants directly tackle global challenges. 

Professor Eirik Holmøyvik is lead author together with Benedikte Moltumyr Høgberg and Christoffer Conrad Eriksen from the University in Oslo of the article "Norway: Legal Response to Covid-19" in "The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19".

Webinar: Monday 26.04.21 at 12:00-13:00 Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Vera Regitz-Zagrosek will talk on how sex and gender modifies health and disease with a focus on cardiac disease in a translational perspective.

Even healthy adults harbour a diverse fungal environment in their lungs, as shown in a new study from researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway (UiB) published in PLOS ONE. The prevalence and severity of fungal infections have increased in recent years, and the Norwegian scientists have been examining fungi in both healthy and people with lung diseases.