Next week, this semester’s last Network Luncheon of The Postgraduate School of Clinical Medical Research will take place.

Time: Tuesday 23 May at. 11:30 a.m.
Location: The Conference Room (Konferanserommet) of the BB-building (in front of auditoriums 2 and 4).

The following presentations are scheduled:

1. Aliona Nacu: The Norwegian Sonothrombolysis in Acute Stroke Study (NOR-SASS).  Randomized Controlled Contrast-Enhanced Sonothrombolysis in an Unselected Acute Ischemic Stroke Population.
2. Vojtěch Novotný: Sonothrombolysis resistant acute ischemic stroke patients: A NOR-SASS sub-study.
3. Sigmund Ytre Hauge: MRI texture analysis in endometrial cancer.

Lunch and refreshments will be served afterwards.

Contact Ileana Cristea as soon as possible if you wish to attend.

As in previous years, the faculty will also in 2017 arrange a seminar for people who is supervising or starting to supervise PhD candidates.

Time: Tuesday 3 October at. 09:00–15:45.
Location: Scandic Bergen City, Håkonsgaten 2.

The program will be announced later.

Registration. (Link in Norwegian)

The seminar is free and is considered very useful to all supervisors – new as experienced.

Hall Schartum-Hansen will defend his PhD thesis on Tueday May 23rd 2017
Trial lecture: Tuesday May 23rd 2017 at 10:15 AM
Topic: ”New markers and impact of secular trends on cardiovascular risk prediction”
Place: Stort auditorium, HUS, Sentralblokken 3rd floor, Jonas Lies vei 65
Public defense: Tuesday May 23rd 2017 at 12:15 PM
 Stort auditorium, HUS, Sentralblokken 3rd floor, Jonas Lies vei 65
Title of dissertation: ”Determinants of long-term outcome in patients With cardiovascular disease. Choline oxidation and loop diuretics- cross – sectional and prospective relationships in large Norwegian cohorts of patients With suspected or verified coronary heart disease”
1st opponent: Professor Stefan Agewall, Universiy of Oslo
2nd opponent: Professor Henrik Schirmer, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Press release  (Link in Norwegian)

Reminder to staff

Have you remembered to vote in the election of new members to The Faculty Board?

The election ends on Monday the 22th of May at noon.

You may vote here: https://valg.usit.no/uib/valg/login.do

The C-COMEND course is looking for intrested applicants. The course is on Translational Research and Medicine Development. Read more here.

These four pictures in the photos below needs to find a new home.
Since they cant be put up on the walls here, we are giving them away.
Its first come first served!

Intrested? Contact Ingvild Jonsvoll in person (reseption 8th floor lab building) or by phone/email
Ingvild.Jonsvoll@uib.no
Tlf: +47 559 73050

Support of up to 1 million kroner to students with a knowledge-based business concept.
Read more here! (Only in norwegian)