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Open day at MIC (11.09.2013)

30th of September and 1st of October MIC would like to invite people to an open day at the facility where all the available technologies are presented with demos. People can sign up to attend demos and on systems of interest and even bring own samples to test.

Paper from CIH in "HIV this month" (15.08.2013)

The paper "Strong effects of home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing on acceptance and equity: a cluster randomised trial in Zambia" from CIH* was selected to be in the "HIV this month"

Kristin Klock, Helene M. Tvinnereim (right)

‘The Tooth Bank’ project received grants from Tannlege Einar Bergersens Legat (07.07.2013)

‘The Tooth Bank’ at the Department of Clinical Dentistry received substantial grants from Tannlege Einar Bergersens Legat for 2013

WHO: new HIV recommendations calling for earlier treatment (05.07.2013)

Earlier, safer and simpler antiretroviral therapy can push the HIV epidemic into irreversible decline declares WHO. Article questions whether the recommendations are evidence based.

NORHED results: CIH partner in 5 projects (05.07.2013)

The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED)has announced the results from the first application round, and CIH is a partner in 5 large research projects.

Prof. K. A. Dawson (on screen), M. Dusinska (left), Z.E. Allouni (right)

Nanoparticles: PhD defence (01.07.2013)

Zouhir Ekeland Allouni defended his thesis on titanium dioxide nanoparticles and cellullar interactions, with the assistance of video conferencing

New paper on pharmacological chaperones (20.06.2013)

Researchers in Biorecognition recently published a potential therapy for the metabolic disorder methylamalonic aciduria in the journal Human Molecular Genetics.

Participants from Bergen outside the Conference Center Wallenberg in Gothenburg.

NSPC 2013 (19.06.2013)

The sixth Nordic Social Pharmacy and Health Research Conference were held in Gothenburg 12-13th of June. The main theme for the conference was "Striving for equality in research participation and the implications for care".

Aase Merethe Raddum’s dissertation (11.06.2013)

In her phd period, Centre for Pharmacy alumn Aase Merethe Raddum has investigated a possible new drug target for cancer therapy. Friday 21st of June 2013 she defended her thesis «Annexin A2 as a target for anti-angiogenic therapy».

PET/CT facility ready to use (22.05.2013)

The small animal PET/CT facility is up and running and we welcome users to contact the facility to plan and perform experiments.

News in our group (16.05.2013)

CIH publication one of 10 best resources on mixed methods research (12.04.2013)

Mercy Njeru’s paper on HIV testing has been selected as one of the top ten resources on mixed methods research in health systems.

Tone Bjørge is professor at Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care

Metabolic risk factors and cancer (05.04.2013)

High serum levels of cholesterol reduce the risk of cancer overall, especially among women.

Upgrade of the preclinical MRI system (05.04.2013)

MIC is happy to report that the upgrade of the preclinical MRI system is now complete and the system has passed all the acceptance tests.

Uptake of social security benefits is higher among childhood cancer survivors (02.04.2013)

A new study from IGS shows that survivors of cancer in young ages (<25 years) receive social security benefits four times more often than the cancer-free population.

Research seminars spring 2013 (22.03.2013)

The seminars are an opportunity for students to present their research project.

Social Pharmacy in International Innovation (14.03.2013)

Social Pharmacy research from Bergen is presented in the March edition of International Innovation, a publication which disseminate international research work to government bodies and potential sponsors, as well as other research institutions.

PhD Comics: Jorge Cham (07.03.2013)

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