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Professor Jan Haavik has been given the Helse Vest Research award 2016 for his research on discovering biological mechanisms that can cause ADHD-symptoms. He was rewarded the prize during the annual research conference of Helse Vest.
There are two main reasons for why Jørn Blume is the candidate of the month of July.
Welcome to the mini-seminar 3rd of November in Aud. 2, BBB, 1330-1530 and the inauguration of MICs new Confocal/STED microscope: Leica TCS SP8 STED 3X
Caroline Engen is a CCBIO PhD candidate who presented at the S.Net conference in Bergen. Her lecture was titled "Why Targeted Therapy May Not Work", and was part of the CCBIO session "The Transition from a Blockbuster Model to Personalised Cancer Therapy". We asked Caroline to walk us through a medical researcher's perspective of the conference and the use of new technologies.
The status of safety conditions in many countries is changeable.
CCBIO organized a special session with focus on the transition from a blockbuster to personalised cancer therapy at the S.Net conference recently held in Bergen.
PhD-candidate Kaya Kvarme Jacobsen will defend her thesis: “Genetic susceptibility across neuropsychiatric disorders - genome-wide, candidate gene and interaction analyses”
11th October, CCBIO hosted a pre-conference event on the Ethical and Social Aspects of Cancer Research as part of the S.Net conference, of the Society for the Study of New and Emerging Technologies.
Since the mid-nineties, professor Knut Fylkesnes at Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, has performed research and capacity building in Zambia.
On September 22nd and 23rd, researchers from Global Health Priorities and Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC) co-organized a symposium at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston (USA) on how to incorporate concerns to health equity into randomized control trials (RCTs).
Almost 50 % of nursing home patients in Norway die with moderate to severe pain. Reidun Sandviks PhD-study takes a closer look at end of life care in nursing homes.