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The DCP-E team outside Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Discussed Ethiopia´s health services at Harvard (15.04.2019)

A group of central researchers in the Gates funded project “Disease Control Priorities Ethiopia” (DCP-E) gathered at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the revision of Ethiopia's publicly funded health services package.

Establishing the groundwork for a new international partnership (12.04.2019)

One of the CIH’s most important resources is the many long-term, stable, productive partnerships Centre researchers have been able to establish with researchers and institutions in Africa and Asia.

Haplin power analysis: a software module for power and sample size calculations in genetic association analyses of family triads and unrelated controls (11.04.2019)

We introduce a new and complete tool in the R package Haplin for power and sample size calculations in genetic association studies, readily applicable to data in MoBa or Harvest. The article is published in BMC Bioinformatics

Understanding the other side (09.04.2019)

Medical research student, Mehma Pannu, says that actually being a researcher gave her an insight into the “other side”. Instead of, as a medical student, taking research results as hard facts, understanding more about the research process has made her more objective.

Back cover of April 2019 issue of Human Mutation

Novel interaction of the co-chaperone DNAJC12 with phenylalanine hydroxylase variants (08.04.2019)

Researchers from the lab of Aurora Martinez describe a novel mechanism for the degradation of enzymes involved in phenylketonuria and other neurometabolic disorders.

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.

Trial lecture and public defense: Maria Lie Lotsberg (26.03.2019)

The candidate will give a trial lecture and defend her doctoral thesis with the title: “The role of AXL and the tumor microenvironment in cancer cell plasticity and therapy responses"

Molecular pathways of Huntingtons’ disesase (14.03.2019)

In Huntingtons Disease, patients suffer from cognitive deficits and psychiatric disturbance, and later also from a devastating loss of movement control. Researchers at the Department of Biomedicine have identified some of the molecular events that occur in the brain in Huntingtons Disease.

NAA10 - A Jack-of-all-trades protein in human cells

A Jack of all Trades in Cancer Cells (14.03.2019)

Cancer is a complex disease caused by a multitude of factors gone wrong in the cell. NAA10 may be one such factor. This is a protein that performs many different tasks, including the most common which is catalyzing the acetylation of cellular proteins. NAA10 can therefore be viewed as a ”Jack of all trades”-protein. For two decades it has been linked to cancer progression, but recent data puts... Read more

Adrian Drazic og Dag Rune Olsen ved Meltzermiddag 2019

Adrian Drazic receives Meltzer prize for young researchers (14.03.2019)

Adrian Drazic, post doctor at the Department of Biomedicine, is one of the recipients of this years award for outstanding young researchers by the Meltzer Foundation.

Using spatial-temporal data analyses to explain impact of HIV treatment in Kenya (12.03.2019)

Although across Kenya there has been a significant decrease in HIV positivity between 2015 and 2017, there are still some gaps that can be identified through spatial-temporal analyses and modelling. A PhD student from CIH talked about his work with spatial-temporal analyses at the prestigious CROI conference held 4-7 March, 2019 in Seattle.

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.

EU MAXIBONE General Assembly, Bergen (01.03.2019)

The first General Assembly of the EU Maxibone Project was held in Bergen from 11-12. February 2019.

Trial lecture and public defence: Arne Raasakka (27.02.2019)

The candidate will give a trial lecture and defend his doctoral thesis with the title: “The Characterization of Disordered Membrane-Binding Proteins of Myelin: A Biophysical Approach"

Career Development Strategies (22.02.2019)

A lecture on how to implement career development in PhD-training in the future.

Your place in the sun (22.02.2019)

A workshop on careers options, strategies & tactics for life scientists

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