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Newsletter April 2025 (22.04.2025)

Fragment screening by X-ray crystallography (08.04.2025)

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.

幸运飞艇计划 Honorary Doctor receives the annual "Breakthrough Prize" (08.04.2025)

Honorary Doctor at 幸运飞艇计划, Alberto Ascherio, receives the prize for his groundbreaking research on MS.

Oral health in focus at festival in Belgium (08.04.2025)

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 R酶sland recently participated in the Science Is Wonderful! festival in Belgium 鈥� an annual celebration of EU-funded research organized by the European Commission.

Ingrid Cardoso is the new climate-health PhD at the Pandemic Centre (08.04.2025)

The medical doctor will explore how climate considerations can be integrated into healthcare governance.

The need for a diagnostic code for lipedema (07.04.2025)

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.

DRIV Attended the Annual Meeting of NKS Vestland in Bergen 鈥� April 5, 2025 (07.04.2025)

On Saturday, April 5, 2025, DRIV 鈥� Centre for Women鈥檚 Health Research was invited to present its work at the annual meeting of Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening (NKS) Vestland at Hotel Terminus in Bergen. It was an inspiring day filled with engaged participants and meaningful discussions about women鈥檚 health.

Gruppebilde foran hotellet Solstrand som viser den store gruppen som er tilknyttet prosjektet IP-future

IP-future inspire large-scale international collaboration (02.04.2025)

Norwegian and International collaboration partners gather for the first annual meeting in the IP-future project.

Group picture of six people: Juha Kallio, Marte Flydal, Aurora Martinez, Mary Dayne S. Tai, Kunwar Jung-Kc and Gloria Gamiz

Novel regulatory mechanism of dopamine synthesis (28.03.2025)

Our group Biorecognition, along with collaborators in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain, has published a exciting new study by Mary Dayne S. Tai et al. in Nature Communications (link below).

New call from The Norwegian Cancer Society: Accelerating methods into practice (27.03.2025)

Many promising methods in cancer treatment, diagnostics, and healthcare never progress beyond testing due to implementation challenges. The Norwegian Cancer Society is seeking projects ready to take the next step 鈥� advancing a promising method toward real-world use.

The Norwegian Cancer Society call: Advancing Prevention Research: Effectiveness, Implementation and Scale-up (26.03.2025)

The Norwegian Cancer Society (NCS) works to prevent and fight cancer, and to ensure the best quality of life for patients and their families. The overarching goal of the NCS`s program 鈥淭argeted Prevention鈥�, is to enhance our knowledge of which specific preventive measures have the greatest impact on society (Strategy 2024-2027). One approach to reach this goal is to fund projects aimed at... Read more

picture of Marit Sandberg, supervisors and comitee

PhD fellow Marit Sandberg defended her doctoral thesis on the 21.st of March (24.03.2025)

Marit Sandberg defended her PhD thesis: "Childbearing in women with congenital heart disease. A nationwide cohort study from Norway 1994-2014鈥�

Title slide from Professor Ane Johannessen鈥檚 presentation at the CHI webinar, alongside a screenshot of her speaking during the session.

GAP leader presented at the Climate Health Initiative (CHI) webinar (21.03.2025)

Professor Ane Johannessen discussed air pollution, greenness, and respiratory diseases at CHI webinar #6.

Human Diabetes Gene Protects Against the Disease in Mice (19.03.2025)

When researchers at the University of Bergen inserted a diabetes gene into mice, they were surprised by the result. The mouse pancreas was severely injured, but the animals were still protected against diabetes.

Ghazal standing in front of Harvard Medical School in her winter clothes, with snow on the ground and in the air.

Lab exchange at Boston Children鈥檚 Hospital, Harvard Medical School (17.03.2025)

Over two months in October鈥揇ecember 2024, PhD Candidate Ghazal Lessan Toussi in Carina Strell鈥檚 group at CCBIO was given the opportunity to be on a research lab stay in Dr. Watnick鈥檚 laboratory at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, USA. This was organized in the CCBIO鈥揤BP Lab Visit Program, which is part of the CCBIO INTPART collaboration. Ghazal returned with lots of new knowledge and... Read more

Photo of a whiteboard full of research subjects to be considered, written by Jidah Folkman in 2007. Never erased.

One year abroad as building block on a career path (17.03.2025)

CCBIO Postdoc Harsh Dongre is currently in his 11th month in Boston on his research year abroad. Now that he soon will be returning, we have asked him to reflect a little bit about doing a year abroad as part of a career path, why he chose Boston, and what he has been doing there.

Ane Johannessen og Merethe Hustoft fra TVEPS

RCN-millions awarded to TVEPS (13.03.2025)

Centre for Interprofessional Workplace Learning receives 12 RCN-millions for research. 鈥� This will enable us to perform valuable research and raise knowledge in this field, says Ane Johannessen, head of TVEPS.

Illuminating life at the University museum (12.03.2025)

Visit the exhibition "Illuminating life" and admire Shuntaro Yamada's pictures of cells and tissue.

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