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BRCA1 methylation predicts cancer risk (29.09.2022)

A new study published in JAMA Oncology (September 2022) shows that BRCA1 methylation in early embryotic life leads to increased cancer risk in the adult.

Research on Gender, Reproduction, and the Lungs - in one generation and across generations. Can we extrapolate this knowledge to the study of cardiovascular diseases? (27.09.2022)

Center for research on Cardiac Disease in Women. Time: 31.10.22 at 12-13 local time. Meeting room 8.1-8.2, in the Laboratory building. The seminar is hybrid. Professor Francisco Gómez Real will first present evidence on gender differences in respiratory health with focus on asthma and lung function, second, on the relationships between respiratory health and sex-hormone related events, and... Read more

Research meeting at Karolinska Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden

Research meeting at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden (23.09.2022)

Two new Centres of Excellence to the University of Bergen (23.09.2022)

Center for Digital Narrative and Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health have been awarded the status as Centres of Excellence (SFF) from the Research Council of Norway.

Participation of PER-IADR and hatton Award Winner to Shuntaro Yamada (23.09.2022)

Group members in the Tissue Engineering group at the University of Bergen participated in PER-IADR Oral Health research Congress in Marseille, France, between 15 and 17 September, 2022. IADR is the world largest dental research association, and PER-IADR is its European division, and there were participants not only from Europe, but from America and pan-pacific Asia regions.

Slide of: Sex differences in hypertension. BP, blood pressure; CV, cardiovascular; T2D, type 2 diabetes; OSAS, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; LVH, left ventricular hypertrophy; LV, left ventricular; LA left atrial; HFpEF, heart failure with preserved

High blood pressure develops differently in women and men and has different implications for the risk of organ damage and heart disease (23.09.2022)

Professor Eva Gerdts has together with international experts published an overview of current knowledge on sex differences in arterial hypertension.

BCEPS is awarded Centre of Excellence Status (20.09.2022)

The results are out and BCEPS is one of two centres at the University of Bergen to receive Centre of Excellence (SFF) status from the Research Council of Norway.

Carina Strell receiving flowers on stage by Lars A. Akslen, all smiling.

Official welcome to Carina Strell (16.09.2022)

Flowers and smiles were in abundance when CCBIO, the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Medial Faculty and the Trond Mohn Foundation welcomed Carina Strell to the University of Bergen in a CCBIO Startup Seminar August 25.

Welcome to the group, Kalyani! (15.09.2022)

Today, Kalyani Mukherjee joined our group as a PhD student, funded by a stipend by the Sigrid Jusélius foundation.

Structural biology of human myelin membrane proteins (13.09.2022)

Myelin is a crucial structure for the normal functioning of the vertebrate nervous system. Here, we have used multiple state-of-the-art technologies at large international research infrastructures, enabling methods not available in Norway, to obtain 3D structural information on some of the most hydrophobic protein molecules in the human body, which are responsible for the correct structure and... Read more