News archive for Faculty of Medicine

PhD and Research Positions in Collaboration with Africa CDC (25.02.2022)

BCEPS and Africa CDC are looking for motivated candidates to work on generating evidence for defining and implementing essential NCD Universal Health Care (UHC) packages in Africa.

2021: Seven SFF finalists from UoB (22.02.2022)

The Norwegian Research Council (Forskningsrådet) invites seven finalists from the University of Bergen to the second round of evaluations in the race of becoming "Senter for Fremragende Forskning (SFF)" (Center for Excellent Research).

2015: You barely know anything about it, but this is one of the most important organs in the body (20.02.2022)

Article in Aftenposten comments on a study from Center for Diabetes Research published in Nature Genetics.

2014: Breakthrough may give rise to new diabetes treatment (20.02.2022)

There is new hope for a more efficient treatment for type 2 diabetes. A rare mutation that gives some individuals a high degree of protection against the disease is discovered.

2014: Researchers have found obesity gene in children (20.02.2022)

New research shows that two genetic variants contributes to extreme obesity in children.

2018: Tablets could replace insulin injections (19.02.2022)

Research concludes that medicine in the form of tablets could replace insulin injections for children with neonatal diabetes.

2018: Winners of Best Research Presentations: Marie H. Solheim and Anny Gravdal (19.02.2022)

The annual conference "Best Research Presentations" was held by Forskerskolen in Clinical Medicine the January 24.-26. at Haukeland University Hospital.

2017: Pål R. Njølstad won the Norwegian Diabetes Foundation Research Award (19.02.2022)

For the first time, the Norwegian Diabetes Foundation awarded the "Diabetes Foundation Research Award" for excellent diabetes research.

2014: New large study on a dominant Mendelian form of diabetes (18.02.2022)

Five researchers from Center for Diabetes Research have contributed in a newly published diabetes study in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics. The study shows that mutations in so-called MODY genes are more frequent than previously assumed, and that not all individuals with these mutations develop diabetes.

From Bistandsaktuelt Photo: Reinhard Marscha / Imagebroker / NTB

Food safety and mental health interconnected (18.02.2022)

The global mental health research group requires focus on mental health while the Norwegian Government develops a strategy on food security.

Winners of The 16th Annual Research Presentations 2022 (15.02.2022)

Food pattern calculator estimates how to gain up to ten life years (09.02.2022)

Researchers at UiB have developed a calculator that can estimate how many life years you could gain by modifications in diet patterns.