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Hani Gabra appointed CMO at BerGenBio (17.12.2019)
Professor Hani Gabra was recently appointed Chief Medical Officer at BerGenBio, based in Oxford UK. Professor Gabra has been part of CCBIO's network of international affiliated researchers since 2016, and considers his affiliation to CCBIO both an advantage and a prerequisite for his role as CMO for BerGenBio. He also finds there are clear opportunities for increased interaction between BerGenBio... Read more
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Rewarding to have Medical Student Research Program students in the research group (12.12.2019)
Since CCBIO was established five years ago, 17 students in the Medical Student Research Program have been affiliated to the center's research groups, and several have proceeded to a PhD degree. The students in the program are genuinely interested and dedicated, but also lacking research experience and in need of close follow-up and mentoring. Nevertheless, CCBIO has very good experiences in... Read more
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TIRFing the Master’s degree to shore (10.12.2019)
Monica Hellesvik has been one of the pioneers to test the new TIRF microscope at the department. She needed to look closely at cell adhesive properties and the TIRF microscope was the perfect tool for it since it is particularly well suited for studying structures closest to the glass slides.
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Summer School in Fibrosis Research, 2020 - CANCELLED! (09.12.2019)
Fibroblasts in fibrosis research
Kolaas and Kippenes
UiB-Bhutan collaborators participate in international conference (05.12.2019)
The Global Mental Health research group (GMHRG) at CIH is embarking on a collaboration with researchers from Bhutan. Together they were responsible for 2 presentations at the 5th International Conference on Medical & Health Sciences 2019.
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From molecule to medicine (05.12.2019)
Martinez and collaborators are developing a pharmacological chaperone therapy for acute intermittent porphyria
Iain Johnston
A new tool uncovers how a disease develops in individual patients (05.12.2019)
UiB and Imperial College researchers have developed a tool which predicts how progressive diseases like cancer and malaria develop in individual patients. In addition, the tool uncovers how bacteria develop resistance to certain drugs.