News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Can sex and gender research improve the understanding of the lacking political focus on women’s health in Norway? (23.02.2024)

Associate Professor Kari Jegerstedt gave a humorous and inspiring lecture on sex and gender and understanding of different categories and dimensions

New teeth using stem cell technology (21.02.2024)

Research leader, Cecilie Gjerde makes new bone material grow using the patient's own stem cells.

Formidling og arrangementer illustrasjon

The Pandemic Centre to lead working group on migration and pandemics (16.02.2024)

The pandemic center will lead a newly established working group on migration and pandemics on behalf of the European public health organization EUPHA.

A new PhD! (15.02.2024)

Congratulations to Peter on becoming a PhD holder!

Design, Quality and Validation of the EU-OPENSCREEN Fragment Library Poised to a High-Throughput Screening Collection (14.02.2024)

The Brenk lab has co-authored a paper describing the EU-Openscreen fragment library.

Yeneabeba Tilahun Sima - picture dissertation

Caesarean delivery and women’s health—Beyond the incision (07.02.2024)

Yeneabeba Tilahun Sima defends her PhD on February 22nd, 2024, at the University of Bergen with the thesis: "Caesarean Delivery and Women’s Health: Population-Based Studies: Trends, Offspring Birthweight, Fecundability and Maternal Cardiovascular Disease Mortality".

Randi Bertelsen og Anders Flataker Viken

Muscle strength can influence sexual function in aging men (06.02.2024)

New research indicates that muscle strength may play a more significant role in adult men's sexual lives than previously known. The researchers behind the study aim to break the taboos concering sexual dysfunction among men.

How is dopamine affected by neurometabolic diseases? (05.02.2024)

Peter Daniel Szigetvari will defend his PhD degree at the University of Bergen on 14 February 2024 with the thesis "Monoamine synthesis in neurometabolic disorders affecting catecholaminergic functioning".