Monthly Archives: May 2018

Two new opportunities for performing high-quality research studies: FHU/RUHS and the EasyTrial booking system

FHU/ RUHS (Forskningsenhet for helseundersøkelser/ Research Unit for Health Surveys) www.uib.no/nb/fhu , www.uib.no/en/ruhs is a new core facility at K2 that was officially opened in November 2017. The aim is to undertake clinical health surveys. (Projects that need hospital facilities for the participants are performed at Haukeland University Hospital.) FHU is a collaboration between the University of Bergen and Haukeland University hospital, anchored at K2, and has received funding for establishment from the Bergen Research Foundation. Until now FHU has performed approximately 400 investigations in persons participating in the projects Psorax35 (PI Steinar Kåre Tveit) and the Carbfunc (PI Simon Dankel). We are about to start the large HUSK3 study (PI Eva Gerdts), and we are finalizing the plans for the RHINESSA 4th generation study (PI Cecilie Svanes) that will start after the summer. These projects cover a broad spectrum of research, addressing psoriasis, obesity, cardiology and respiratory health; and different study designs such as intervention and population based studies.

FHU/ RUHS has since the opening November 2017 needed a booking system, in order to allocate dates, personnel and equipment to the participants in the research projects undertaken at the facility. The University of Bergen has since 2015 been trying to provide a booking system for its core facilities. FHU, supported by Per Bruvold at Innkjøpsavdelingen, initiated a bidding process in November 2017. Four different systems applied, two of them were assessed for further consideration, and the system EasyTrial (https://www.easytrial.net ) has been selected. EasyTrial is an online Clinical Trial Management and Electronic Data Capture System for administration of clinical trial tasks (operational and logistical). It includes a calendar and appointment system to manage correspondence with participants and allocate human resources and equipment. The system is based in Denmark, and has been used in Sweden, Germany, Portugal, England and USA. It has also been used by the Norwegian Cancer Registry. EasyTrial is compliant with good clinical practice (GCP), 21 CFR Part 11, EU GDPR and database security legislation. For those who might be interested a representative for EasyTrial will present this system at the FHU localities in Haukelandsbakken 45 June 8th. You may contact study nurse Linda Tveit to participate.

You are welcome to contact me in the case that you want to discuss performing studies at FHU /RUHS.

Assembly

There will be held an open assembly Wednesday 29th May from 0915-1000 on the evaluation report of the reorganization of the faculty. The assembly will be held in room B302 in Sentralblokken.

During the assembly, the dean will present the recommendations from the report, as well as information on how the faculty will proceed with the recommendations. There will also be time for questions and comments.

Somatic and germ-line aspects of cancer-related deep sequencing

Are you interested in mathematical or computational modeling of biological systems, using digital tools to analyze biological data, or in making your research more transdisciplinary?

We are happy to announce that prof. Eivind Hovig (University of Oslo & Oslo University Hospital) will give a talk this time. He will talk about their experiences from the sequencing work in the Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium, collaboration with deCODE on analysing the genetic landscape of Norwegians and about the variant frequency data base.

Time: May 30
Place: Lab-building at the Haukeland University Hospital, 6th floor, meeting room at Medical Genetics & Molecular Medicine.

“Digital Frukost” is an open breakfast seminar series focusing on research activities at the interface between the biological sciences and that of mathematics, computer science, physics or engineering. Examples of such research activities could be mathematical or computational modeling of biological systems, application of engineering/control systems theory on biological systems or inspired by biological systems, application of mathematics/statistics/machine learning to analyze big data in health or marine sector; from sensor systems, imaging or omics technologies etc. The seminars are arranged by the Centre for Digital Life Norway (DLN: www.digitallifenorway.org).

We hope to see many of you there!

As food will be served, please register your attendence using this link.

Vitenskap og politikk – en ny rolle for universitetene? (norwegian only)

UiB-rektor Dag Rune Olsen og UiO professor Dag O Hessen, forfatter av boken «Sannhet til salgs – et forsvar for den frie forskningen», møtes til debatt.

Science advice og science diplomacy er mye omtalt i akademia for tiden, og vektlegges i økende grad av institusjonenes ledere. Er fremtiden for Universitetene, i tider med mindre tiltro til kunnskap, i ferd med å bli premissleverandører for politikken? Kan universitetene bli politikkens redning og politikken bli universitetenes redning?

Sted: Litteraturhuset, Rom: Olav H. Hauge.
Tid: Torsdag 7. juni kl. 19:00.

Åpent arrangement/gratis adgang. Se også uib.no

Møtet er det første i en ny serie møter arrangert av Academia Europaea Bergen Knowledge Hub som setter lys på forholdet mellom akademia og samfunnet. Academia Europaea er det felleseuropeiske vitenskapsakademiet, og Bergen Hub skal være en platform for Akademiets aktiviteter i Norden med fokus på Norden, Nordområdene, marine og maritime forhold.

Vennlig hilsen

Kristin Hansen
Project Manager
Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub Region Bergen
https://aebergen.w.uib.no/

Invitasjon til å nominere kandidater til Kronprins Håkons forskningspris for astma og allergi 2018 (norwegian only)

Styret i Forskningsfondet for Astma og Allergi vedtok i sitt møte 26. mai 2016 å opprette Kronprins Haakons forskningspris for astma og allergi.

Prisen er på kroner 50 000,- og skal deles ut årlig til en forsker som har utvist en særskilt innsats innenfor fagfeltet astma og allergi.

Kronprins Haakons forskningspris for astma og allergi 2018

Prisen skal deles ut til en forsker som fortrinnsvis oppfyller følgende kriterier:

  • Fullført, eller i ferd med å fullføre phd
  • Må være publisert
  • Må være aktiv forsker på nominasjonstidspunktet
  • Må ha resultater å vise til fra sin forskning
  • Fokus i sin forskning på astma og allergi, eksem, eller andre relaterte fagområder som kan knyttes til astma- og allergisykdom.
  • Beskrives som ‘ung og lovende’
  • Må ha vist en ‘Særskilt innsats innen feltet’

Frist for innsending av forslag på kandidater: 15. mai 2018

Forslag på kandidater sendes til forskningsfondet@naaf.no

MED Postdoc Training Program

This autumn, the Faculty of Medicine will launch a new training program designed specifically for postdocs working at The Medical Faculty, UiB and Haukeland University Hospital.

This program is open to postdocs at all career stages who are interested in developing their academic career. The program will run from September 2018 to June 2019 and comprises a portfolio of tailored workshops and development opportunities covering topics including: Academic research in national and EU contexts; How to supervise students; How to make a successful funding application and How to develop a competitive academic CV. A full program of activities will be available during May 2018, a preliminary program is available on the webpage now. The course consists of 6 gatherings including a two-day seminar at Bjørnefjorden in November.

Participating in the MED Postdoc Program will provide you with skills and knowledge to develop a successful academic career as well as the opportunity to connect with other scientists from institutes and departments across the Faculty of Medicine.

The deadline for applications is June 4. All applicants commit to attending all activities throughout the period. It is therefore a condition of application that your contract extends to June 2019. The maximum number of participants is 30.

Participant certificates will be issued after completion of the program.

See: https://www.uib.no/en/med/117696/med-postdoc-training-program

 

Nutrition seminar series

The Centre for Nutrition at UiB invites to a new seminar in the series of lectures on nutrition presented by researchers from home and abroad. The series addresses key challenges in nutrition and health.

Time: Wednesday May 30th  at 14:30-15:30
Venue: Auditorium 4, BB Building, Jonas Lies vei

Program:
“The protein source determines the potential of high protein diets to attenuate and reverse obesity development in mice.”

Lise Madsen, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Moderator: Jutta Dierkes

There will be light refreshments.
Welcome!

Innovative graduate school for cancer research in Berlin – application for PhD and MD positions

Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (BSIO) – Applications for PhD and MD positions currently accepted until June 19, 2018

The BSIO offers a structured 3-year doctoral program jointly educating natural scientists and physicians/medical students in the field of integrative oncology and features excellent research conditions, a comprehensive curriculum and a broad supervision and mentoring network. With respect to its scientific scope, the BSIO aims to bring our understanding of malignant growth to new conceptual levels, i.e. to expand the molecular, cell biological, organismic and system-mathematical research focus by utilizing advanced experimental and simulatory models to develop novel diagnostics and innovative therapeutic principles, and to make them rapidly available for clinical testing.

Please refer to https://www.bsio-cancerschool.de/ for all regulations and application details and for more information on the graduate school.

How to apply: Application only is possible via the BSIO online application portal. It is open until June 19.

COST: New research networks in medical and health research

COST is a European network organization with most European countries as members (including Norway and all EU countries). COST aims to support European research collaboration via facilitating scientific networks, so-called COST actions. More information about COST can be found on their webpage http://www.cost.eu/.

New COST networks have been launched and in this table you can find those relevant for medical and health research. If you need further information or are interesting in joining one of the networks, please contact Amra.

OBS OBS! Retur av smitte-frakker!! (norwegian only)

Teamet som rengjør i garderobene i 1 etg. melder om at ansatte kaster smitte-frakker i retur sekkene for håndklær (blanke sekker) som skal i retur til vaskeriet. Dette er feil.

Smitte frakker skal i vannoppløselig sekk og deretter i tøy-sekk.

De skal merkes med navn på lab og dato for deretter å settes på avfallsrommet eller tøylageret i 1. etg. Vannoppløselige sekker finnes på alle avfallsrom i LB.

New publications

Here are recent publications with contributions from K2 based on last week’s search on PubMed (and optionally articles that have not been included in previous lists). This time the list includes in total 5 recent publications. The entries appear in the order they were received from NCBI. If you have publications that are not included in this or previous lists, please send the references to Hege F. Berg. Continue reading