Reference is made to the announcement and application forms on the faculty website: http: //www.uib.no/mofa/66285/finansiering-av-utenlandsopphold-ansatte-ved-mof.

Three types of UiB employees are eligeble for the grants:

1) Scientific staff in permanent positions. The position must be funded by the University, and an application for research sabbatical including a stay abroad must have been submitted by the deadline for sabbaticals (1 May). Deadline: 1 October.

2) Postdoctoral fellows with UiB funding.
Deadlines 1 March and 1 October.

3) PhD candidates with UiB funding/UiB research fellow (PhD) positions: PhD candidates funded by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, can apply for research grant limited to 25.000nok. Application deadline are 1. March and 1. October

Call for proposals and application forms in English: http://www.uib.no/en/mofa/67056/financial-support-stays-abroad-employees-faculty

Research Scholarship for stays abroad in the sabbatical leave can be searched by academic staff in permanent positions that are funded by the University of Bergen / Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. When applying for a research grant applicant must have applied for a sabbatical by the stipulated deadline (May 1st.), Where the research stay at the foreign institution included in the sabbatical leave. It is also a prerequisite that parallel application for funding through the Meltzer Fund which deadline is :December 1st.

Information about Meltzer Fund are here: http://meltzerfondet.no/

Our introductory course in Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics (UU 87,307 7.5 ECTS) for spring 2017 is now open for registration.

The course, which is entirely free to EU / EAA citizens, is suitable for students and researchers who are interested in learning how complex biological processes can be studied down to the finest level of chemical detail with the help of informatics, and how it can be used for understanding life processes and to develop drugs and improved pharmacotherapy.

The course is completely online and takes place during the period January 15 – March 23; for more information and preliminary notification see www.pharmbio.org<http://www.pharmbio.org>.

At the request of many former participants we now also offer two additional online courses:

I. Applied pharmaceutical Structural Bioinformatics (UU 87 309 5 ECTS) (January 15 – February 28)

II. Applied Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics (UU 87320 5 ECTS) (April 2 – May 16)

More information is available at www.pharmbio.org/pages/other_courses<http://www.pharmbio.org/pages/other_courses>.

I would also be grateful if you could pass on the information about the courses from your undergraduate and graduate students as we find it difficult to reach out to them.

Genomics Club announces new season of scientific Meetings.
Our first meeting will take place on the 5th October, 12:00 in room 6.1, Laboratoriebygget (6th floor).

During inauguration meeting we will have three 20 minutes presentations from people experienced with CRISPR technology:

Kornel Labun – CRISPR tools for XXI century genome engineering

Johanna Lüdeke – CRISPR knockout of HADH in HEK293 cells

Simon Dankel – CRISPR applied in functional genetics Research

If you want to be informed of later Genomics Club meetings, please make sure to be included on the Club list by sending an email to tomasz.stokowy@k2.uib.no.

Later meetings will NOT be advertised on the K2/K1 news letters.

Welcome!

The purpose of the grant is to cover initial and additional expenditures in connection with research-related stays abroad. It is also possible to apply for travel expenses to be covered.

Three types of UiB employees are eligeble for the grants:

1) Scientific staff in permanent positions. The position must be funded by the University, and an application for research sabbatical including a stay abroad must have been submitted by the deadline for sabbaticals (1 May). Deadline: 1 October.

2) Postdoctoral fellows with UiB funding. Deadlines 1 March and 1 October.

3) PhD candidates with UiB funding/UiB research fellow (PhD) positions: PhD candidates funded by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, can apply for research grant limited to 25.000nok. Application deadline are 1. March and 1. October

Applications should be sent by internal mail or ordinary post to:
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Postboks 7804
5020 BERGEN

A report is to be submitted to the faculty immediately upon return, no later than one month after returning to Bergen. The report should be sent to the address above.

It’s time to start planning your leftover holidays. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has set the following deadlines for application for holidays for 2016:

Application for leftover holidays should be sent in PAGA no later than 01.10.2016.

Information about holidays and how to register holidays can be found here: http://pagaweb.w.uib.no/english/5-vacation/ If you have any questions regarding Holidays and registering please contact Personnel Consultant: Elin Myhrvold – Email: elin.Myhrvold@UiB.no

You will find the announcement and application forms on the Faculty website: http://www.uib.no/mofa/66285/finansiering-av-utenlandsopphold-ansatte-ved-mof

You can find the call for proposals and application forms in English here: http://www.uib.no/en/mofa/67056/financial-support-stays-abroad-employees-faculty

The announcement apply research scholarships for university-funded postdoctoral fellows at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen. Post Doctors who are externally funded (eg NFR, Helse Vest, State Educational Loan Fund, the Cancer Society, etc.) Must seek funding source about støtte.Siden grant is intended as a partial financing of the stay abroad, encouraged all postdocs who want a stay abroad to seek external funding through other arrangements. Research has its own scholarship base for researcher mobility which gives a brief presentation of mobility grant from the Research Council and other actors: http://www.euraxess.no/prognett-euraxess/stipendbasen/1232443083609

Application deadline is October 1st  2016

This years HSE day is wednesday November 23rd 2016. This year it will be held in the VilVIte senter in THormøhlens Gate 51.
To register click here.

You can find the invitation here

Jan Erik Nordrehaug

Congratulations to Jan Erik Nordrehaug as the last author of a non-industry sponsored paper on coronary stents in New England Journal of Medicine. Also Ottar Nygård, Dennis Nilsen og Alf-Inge Larsen at K2 are co-authors. Reference: N Engl J Med. 2016 Aug 29th

Seminar “Karriereutvikling i helsefaglig forskning”

Friday 28th of October, at  kl. 9-13
Athene 1-2, Pilestredet 46

Invitation