News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Sharing results of 14 years of Norwegian-Cambodian collaboration (31.10.2019)

The Cambodian – Norwegian collaborating team presented research results at the 10th Congress of the Asian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions

Ravi Prakash Upadhyay: Investigating the impact of nutritional interventions on neurodevelopment in young Indian children (30.10.2019)

PhD Candidate, Ravi Prakash Upadhyay, writes about his PhD and research activity.

Getachew Teshome Eregata: Capacity-strengthening for better national health (24.10.2019)

Getachew Teshome is combining a leadership position at the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health and taking a PhD in evidence-based, cost-effective health priority setting at UiB.

Centre for Nutrition at the European Nutrition Conference 2019 (23.10.2019)

PhD-candidates and researchers from the Centre for Nutrition participated at the 13th edition of the European Nutrition Conference in Dublin from 15-18th October 2019.

BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school.

Modern Chinese Medicine (16.10.2019)

This summer, the Department of Biomedicine organized a joint summer school with the Cheeloo College of Medicine at Shandong University in China.

Shuntaro received Lightning Talk Presentation Prize at Bergen Stem Cell Consortium meeting 2019

Lightning Talk Presentation Prize (15.10.2019)

Bergen Stem Cell Consortium meeting 2019 took place in Bergen where researchers not only from Norway but also from several European countries came together to discuss about recent development of research and clinical application in stem cell biology. Ph.D. candidate, Shuntaro Yamada, presented his ongoing work with the title of “Plasma surface activation of polymeric biomaterials improved seeding... Read more

Cover image of Journal of Dental Research, October 2019 issue

Cover image of Journal of Dental Research, 2019 Oct issue (15.10.2019)

Tooth morphogenesis is not driven by proliferation but spatiotemporal change in cell shape regulated by actomyosin. Ph. D candidate Shuntaro Yamada’s previous work “Molar Bud-to-Cap Transition Is Proliferation Independent” conducted at King’s College London, UK, was published on The Journal of Dental Research, which is a peer-reviewed and top-cited journal in dentistry. This work revealed the... Read more

Keynote lecture at the EAO Congress, Lisbon, 2019 (11.10.2019)

Prof. Mustafa presented a keynote lecture at the 28th annual EAO Congress titled "Are stem cells the implants of the future"

Increasing low birth-weight baby survival with community-initiated Kangaroo Mother Care (08.10.2019)

A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.

UiB leadership meets with IGS strategic leaders (04.10.2019)

UiB Rector, Dag Rune Olsen, and Vice-Rector for Global Relations, Anneline Eriksen, met with IGS’ strategic research and education leaders Wednesday 2 October.

Father’s obesity in puberty increases the risk of asthma in his future offspring (03.10.2019)

MED reports that a UIB-study shows that boys who are obese in pre-puberty have an over two times higher risk of having children with asthma than those who are not.

From skis to Sjøgren's Syndrome (01.10.2019)

As a child, Silke Appel was taken on ski trips to Geilo with her family from Berlin. Today she is a research director and deputy head of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory in Bergen, thanks to financial support from the Trond Mohn Foundation.

Joint Research School Writing Seminar 9 October 2019 (01.10.2019)

CIH Associate Professor, Ana Lorena Ruano is leading an open workshop on how to write better scientific articles.

Early Stage Researcher Seminar - Line Pedersen (01.10.2019)