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PhD defence – Alba Kaci

Alba Kaci will defend her PhD thesis on Thursday 17th October 2019

Trial lecture: Thursday 17th October 2019 at 10.30.
Topic: “Type 2 diabetes susceptibility genes- reclassification of type 2 diabetes in the precision medicine era”
Place: Auditorium, AHH, Haukelandsveien 28

Public defense: Thursday 17th October 2019 at 12.15.
Title of dissertation: “Precision medicine in MODY-diabetes: Unraveling the disease causality of gene variants and new regulatory mechanisms”
Place:  Auditorium, AHH, Haukelandsveien 28

1st opponent: PhD Martine Vaxillaire, Pasteur Institute of Lille, France
2nd opponent: Professor Anna Krook, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
3rd member of the comittee: Researcher Stian Knappskog, Universitetet i Bergen

The defense will be led by professor Thomas Halvorsen.

New name – Håkon Reikvam

Håkon Reikvam is associate professor at K2. He has been associated to the Leukemia Research Group (Bruserudgruppa) since 2008, with major research interest in malignant hematology, stem cell transplantation and transfusion medicine. He is a consultant in internal medicine and hematology, and he also work as a physician at the hematology section, medical department, HUS. He is also responsible for the teaching in hematology, leader for semester board for 12th semester and member of the program committee medicine (PUM). He has an office at Armauer Hansen’s House.

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 15 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.

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