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Martha E. Hjelmeland, Jone Trovik and Camilla Krakstad are three of the researchers at the Women's Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital and the Bergen Research Group for Gynecological Cancer, who have discovered that the loss of vimentin, a protein, in preoperative biopsies can predict poor prognosis and lymph node metastasis in patients with endometrial cancer.
In a recently published study from CCBIO and Helse Bergen HF, Luka Tandaric, Line Bjørge, and her research group have investigated how immunotherapy with two specific drugs – oleclumab (anti-CD73) and durvalumab (anti-PD-L1) – affects immune cells in the blood of patients with ovarian cancer during treatment.
The article was published in NanoToday and is an international collaboration, which highlights the very important and relevant issue of interference of nanomaterials with in vitro studies, which hampers the assessment of nanomaterials’ biological effects.
MD, Ph.d. Marit Sandberg presents at meeting room 9.1-9.2, Laboratory building, Monday 31.03.25 @ 12-13, Coffee and tea will be served and the event is open to all
Dr. Anja Linde defended her thesis on: Cardiovascular organ damage in patients with psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis: associations with hypertension, obesity and disease modifying treatment 14.02.25. Professor Renata Cifkova from Charles I University, Prague, Czech Republic served as first opponent, and professor Tillmann Uhlig, University of Oslo as second opponent. The scientific evaluation... Read more
The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.
PhD fellow at the Pandemic Center, Pierina Benavente Velando, is the first author of a study published in October.
Physical abuse and sexual assault may be linked to the development of endometriosis, a recent study shows. – Even those with a low genetic risk may be susceptible to developing the disease if they have experienced significant trauma, says lead author Solveig Løkhammer from the University of Bergen.
On February 29th and 30th, the 19th annual research presentations took place for participants in the Research School in Clinical Medicine. Numerous awards were handed out. See the award winners here!