News archive for Faculty of Medicine

This is the newest part of our journey to design FabF inhibitors with the goal to develop new antibiotics. Here, we have used X-ray crystallography to discover hit compounds which subsequently were optimized using analogue searching, chemical space searching and manual design.

Did you know that poor oral health can be linked to diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and lung diseases? Professor Randi Bertelsen and PhD students Tuva Norderud Jensen and Anders Røsland recently participated in the Science Is Wonderful! festival in Belgium – an annual celebration of EU-funded research organized by the European Commission.

In the bymag.nos article "Kampen for diagnose" (Norwegian article) ("The Fight for a Diagnosis"), the challenges many patients face within the healthcare system are highlighted. Hildur Skuladottir, project leader for lipedema research at Haraldsplass, describes the lack of a diagnostic code as problematic, leading to patients not receiving the necessary help from the healthcare system.