Dear everyone!

First and foremost: Congratulations to Marit Sandberg, PhD candidate at the Centre for Research on Heart Disease in Women, who won  the Researcher Grand Prix in Bergen! She researches pregnancy and childbirth in women with congenital heart disease and convinced both the audience and the judges with her presentation. It is great that one of our PhD candidates will represent UiB in the final in Oslo, we wish you good luck!

Furthermore, we continue to work on our finances, it is important that everyone understands the serious situation we are in. We have to budget externally funded projects in such a way that the department does not run a deficit overall. As part of that process, we will now have a survey of our technical staff, as the first step we have invited to an information meeting and a FORUM meeting with all research group and core facility managers. If we stand together, we will manage this situation!

Have a great weekend!

Silke