News archive for Faculty of Medicine

Organize an event at Day Zero 2025! (25.09.2024)

We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 5 February 2025. This is the free, all-digital day of events on the day before the SDG Conference plenary programme starts.

Success for the first innovation festival at UiB (24.09.2024)

There was great interest in the first UiB Innovation Festival on September 20th. Vice-Rector Gottfried Greve hopes the event will create a new momentum for the innovation culture at The University of Bergen (UiB).

Åshild Johansen won the Nordic Hatton competition (23.09.2024)

PhD-candidate at IKO, Åshild Johansen, attended the CED/NOF-Oral Health Research Congress in Geneva 12-14th September. She participated and won the Nordic Hatton competition, together with PhD-candidate Ingrid Beate Ringstad from the University of Oslo. As part of the prize, they will travel to Barcelona in June next year to compete in the international Hatton grand finale at the IADR General... Read more

Frequency of ERBB2-Low Expresssion in Endometrial Cancer (20.09.2024)

Fresh look on the protein expression of ERBB2 (HER2) in endometrial cancer.

Nanobodies in Protein Science and Beyond (20.09.2024)

Congratulation to José Miguel Godoy who won the prizes for best 3-min presentation at the Biocat conference last week.

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Long-term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of hospitalisation (09.09.2024)

Long-term exposure to air pollution and a lack of access to green spaces increases the risk of hospitalisation for respiratory conditions, according to a study conducted by UiB-researchers.

Professor Eva Gerdts has together with other international experts published new European guidelines for management of high blood pressure (05.09.2024)

The new European Society of Cardiology guidelines were presented at the largest cardiology conference in the world, ESC 2024 in London

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EU backs life-saving research: Tackling child diarrhea in low-income countries (05.09.2024)

Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child mortality in low-income countries, following pneumonia. To tackle this issue, a consortium coordinated by UiB-professor Kurt Hanevik has secured EU funding to improve diagnosis and treatment of diarrheal diseases.

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Boys with higher levels of environmental pollutants enter puberty later (04.09.2024)

Researchers at the University of Bergen, Haukeland University Hospital, and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health have studied the relationship between levels of environmental pollutants in the blood and pubertal development in 300 boys in Bergen, Norway. The results showed that those with higher levels of pollutants entered puberty later.