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Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) is now accepting applications for the ‘CAS Research Grant’ for 2026/2027.

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The announcement is open to permanent employees in academic positions at CAS’s partner institutions (including UiB).

Those whose application is approved may form and lead a research project and a research group for one academic year at CAS in Oslo. The publication points for publications based on research at CAS accrue to the researcher’s home institution.

The call can be found here: https://cas-nor.no/call-applications-cas-research-grant

The application deadline is 18 October 2024.

Disputation | Annette Onken – 27. August 2024

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Trial Lecture: August 27, 2024, at 10:15 AM

Location: Auditorium B-301, Central Block, Haukeland University Hospital
Assigned Topic: “Providing laboratory services in low and middle-income countries – challenges and solutions”

Foto/ill.: Nadine Durema Pullar

Defense: August 27, 2024, at 12:15 PM

Location: Auditorium B-301, Central Block, Haukeland University Hospital
Title of the Thesis: “Bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance in Zanzibar, Tanzania, with special focus on typhoid fever and malaria”

  1. Opponent: Professor Christopher Parry, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, U.K.
  2. Opponent: Associate Professor Birgitta Ehrnström, NTNU
  3. Committee Member: Professor Tomas Eagan, University of Bergen

The defense will be led by Professor Kurt Hanevik.

Open to all interested parties.

Press Release (Only provided in Norwegian)