Hi, my name is Lene Tøftestuen!
I work as a semester coordinator (senior consultant). I am responsible for MED5 and pharmacy subjects
You will find me on the 7th floor of the laboratory building.
I am available from Monday to Friday.
A fantastic opportunity to see the breadth of the excellent work our medical students are doing with their theses!
For the class of 19B, a “Thesis Symposium” will be held in the auditorium of Armauer Hansens House. We invite all interested parties at the faculty to the symposium!
Feel free to drop by during this time and catch a bit of the symposium!
All theses submitted this fall will be presented at this symposium.
Each thesis will be turned into a scientific poster, which will be presented orally. The presentations will proceed continuously as “one-minute madness,” where each student gets 1½ minutes to convey the main message of their thesis.
The posters will also be presented in a digital exhibition online, so anyone whose curiosity is piqued by the presentation can find more details: https://mitt.uib.no/courses/41080
There will also be awards for the best thesis (up to three winners) and the best presentation (one winner).
We remind you of the invitation to present your work at the 19th Annual Research Presentations hosted by the Research School in Clinical Medicine at Haukeland University Hospital from January 29th to January 31st, 2025. This event is open to PhD candidates, Postdoctoral Researchers, Scientists, medical students, and hospital staff affiliated with K1 or K2 at the University of Bergen or Helse-Vest, who have presented posters or oral presentations at conferences in 2024. Register at this link (https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17860219) and submit your work by December 1, 2024, for a chance to win up to 10,000 NOK!
For more details: https://k2info.w.uib.no/files/2024/11/Invitation_The-19th-Annual-Research-Presentations.pdf
We are looking forward to seeing you and your research!
Yours sincerely,
Stian, Irit, Kira, Lucia, Lucrezia and Mari.
Hello all good colleagues at k2!We invite you to a little pre-Christmas fun on December 13
Mulled wine and gingerbread will be served. Place: Laboratory building, 5th floor at 11:30
We look forward to seeing you!
Best,
Silke, Mia, Irene og Ingri
On Wednesday 27th of November (from 08.30 to 14.00) NBS Bergen in collaboration with BBRS is organizing a minisymposium on the 3rd floor of BBB to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Federation of Biochemical Societies (FEBS).
The event is meant to be informal and fun and will include exciting new science from UiB (session 1), an innovation session (session 2) with visits from Maija Slaidina from Sarsia, Bengt-Erik Haug from KinSea Lead Discovery and Dorinde Kleinegris from Norce, and a keynote lecture held by Jan Terje Andersen from Oslo University Hospital. Jan Terje is a professor of biomedical innovation at the University of Oslo, and a research group leader at Oslo University Hospital. He heads the Laboratory of Adaptive Immunity and Homeostasis, which in addition to its great scientific output, has extensive collaborations with biotech and pharmaceutical companies. He is also the co-founder of the company Authera. Jan Terje is a great speaker and will talk about his research and his interest in innovation and commercialization. See the attached posters for an abstract of his talk.
In addition to the short talks, there will be a “reuse your old poster” – poster session. This session will be a great opportunity for everyone who wants to present and discuss their science. There will be a 1000 NOK poster prize for the best poster, and we will serve pizza (sponsored by the Bergen Biomedical Research School).
To make the day as fun as possible, we hope that many of you will sign up with your old posters, or just join as a participant. Everyone is welcome, students, PhDs and professors alike!
No affiliation with NBS, FEBS, or BBRS is required, the symposium is free and open for all!
Tentative program:
08.45 – 11.00 Minitalks: Science Minitalks (Session 1) and Innovation (Session 2) (Auditorium 4, BBB)
11.00 – 12.30 Poster Session and Pizza (Vrimlearealet, BBB)
12.30 – 13.30 Keynote lecture by Jan Terje Andersen (Auditorium 1, BBB)
Mark your calendars, bring your friends!
Sign up here:
https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17926680
We hope to see you there!
NBS Bergen
Trial Lecture: Friday, November 29, 2024, at 10:15 AM
Location: Auditorium B-301, Central Block, Haukeland University Hospital, Jonas Lies vei 65
Assigned topic: “Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cardiovascular prevention”
Defense: Friday, November 29, 2024, at 12:15 PM
Location: Auditorium B-301, Central Block, Haukeland University Hospital, Jonas Lies vei 65
Thesis title: “Left ventricular mechanics and oxygen demand in patients with severe obesity undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery”
The defense will be chaired by Professor Emerita Birgitta Aasjø.
Open to all interested parties
The HSE round is part of UiB’s workplace environment surveys. The HSE round is a review of premises, equipment, and work methods to identify hazards that could cause illness and injury to people, objects, and the external environment. It helps to identify challenges related to physical, chemical, and ergonomic conditions at work.
The dates for this year’s HSE round are:
Laboratory Building: 02.12 from 12 PM
Glasblokkene and Overlege Danielssens hus: 04.12 from 12 PM
Here are the links to this year’s forms, please fill them out no later than one week before the round.
Office and lab (simpler version): https://forms.office.com/e/e2UZR2cEDx?origin=lprLink
Office and lab (Norwegian): https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=17971423
Ten of the Research Council of Norway’s (RCN) new portfolio boards are in the process of developing portfolio plans for research and innovation calls. The portfolio boards are responsible for distributing around nine billion NOK annually, and the portfolio plans guide the academic, thematic, and strategic allocation of funds. These plans are governance documents that aim to contribute to predictability and clarity in funding guidelines. The portfolio plans should be short and overarching, and will be detailed in an investment plan that is updated annually. The new plans will be presented to the RCN board in February 2025.
To ensure that the plans are based on updated knowledge and take various perspectives into account, RCN is organizing digital input meetings. In these meetings, the goals, priorities, and measures in the draft portfolio plans are presented, and participants have the opportunity to provide input. The digital input meetings take place from October 2024 to January 2025 and are open (anyone can register). There is now one remaining input meeting for Welfare and education on December 17, and one for Democracy and global development on January 8.
In the portfolio board meeting for innovation in October, representatives from a wide range of stakeholders participated, including FFA (Joint Arena of the Research Institutes e.g. NORCE, SINTEF), UHR (Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions), and individual institutions, including UoB. It emerged that the current draft of the portfolio plan for innovation was considered a good starting point, while views on priorities differed. One point that clearly divided opinions was the extent to which allocations should contribute to competence generation and -transfer. Should it be “other” portfolios that contribute to the education of researchers, while in the innovation portfolio funds go directly to operations and investment in innovation projects without emphasizing the competence aspect? Some argued that “this is not the portfolio we should use to educate PhD candidates,” while others emphasized the importance of having at least one project partner as an R&D provider to promote transfer of knowledge.
As we know, RCN isin a restructuring process, but it can still play an important future role as a funding source for K2 research. It may be useful to participate in the remaining input meetings to get an impression of the direction the portfolio plans are moving in and to familiarize yourself with the new portfolio plans when they are available.
Finally, I would like to remind you of the deadlines for nominations for the L. Meltzer’s College Fund awards, which is December 1. Nominations can be made by all professors and department heads at the University of Bergen. You can nominate candidates for the Meltzer Award for Young Researchers, the Meltzer Award for Outstanding Research Dissemination, and the Meltzer Award for Outstanding Research (the latter will be awarded for the first time in 2025). More information here: https://meltzerfondet.w.uib.no/sjekkliste/
Jonas Gahr Støre, who was then the Minister of Health, initiated the HelseOmsorg21 strategy. The goal was to create a targeted and holistic effort for research and innovation in health and care. Now, ten years later, we are taking stock. How has it gone and what have we learned?
What have we done well where we have succeeded? And what will be important going forward with a changing world, an increasing proportion of elderly people, staff shortages in services, and a digital shift? These are some of the questions that will be discussed at this seminar hosted by the HelseOmsorg21 Council.
At the seminar, you will hear success stories from the ten-year period and gain insight into which success stories we need going forward to achieve the vision of Knowledge, innovation, and business development for better public health.
You will meet people who have worked closely with the strategy, and people with international experience who can provide us with inspiration and benchmarking from an international perspective. Does Norway have what it takes to succeed internationally in research, innovation, and business development?
November 25th, 08:30–10:00
https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2024/ti-ar-med-helseomsorg21/
(only available in Norwegian)
Fostering Pragmatic Comparative-Effectiveness Trials in Non-communicable Diseases (EffecTrial)
Aim of the call:
– to support randomised, interventional and pragmatic comparative-effectiveness multi-country Investigator-Initiated Clinical Studies (IICS)
– to encourage and enable transnational collaboration between clinical/public health research teams (from hospital/ public health, healthcare settings and other healthcare organisations) that conduct comparative-effectiveness multi-country IICS.
These interventions shall have high public relevance only in the fields of these specific diseases or conditions (that are of equal importance):
The projects will require collaboration with several European countries. 300.000 EUR for the Norwegian partners (400.000 if coordinating).
Deadline for preproposals: 28 January 2025
Breakfast Seminar – The Good Work Environment Changing Work Life –
What About the Work Environment?
Occupational Health – Psychosocial Work Environment – Regulations
Digital Breakfast Seminar on November 26th on Zoom from 08:30 to 10:00
We invite you to this year’s fourth breakfast seminar on November 26th about occupational health, the psychosocial work environment, and regulations. We have invited the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI) and the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. How is the state of the work environment in Norway, and what can potential changes in the regulations for the psychosocial work environment contribute?
STAMI publishes a Fact Book on Work Environment and Health every three years. The Fact Book provides status and trends for the work environment and health in Norway. STAMI’s director, Therese Hanvold, stated at the launch that “the Norwegian work environment is generally good. We have high employment and low temporary employment, fewer work injuries and work-related deaths, and a high degree of job satisfaction, job motivation, and job attachment. Nevertheless, we need to take steps to get more people to participate in working life. The Fact Book helps identify the most important challenges so that efforts for the work environment can be targeted and effective,” says the STAMI director. Department Director Cathrine H. Ljoså, NOA/STAMI, will review some important trends at the Breakfast Seminar.
In October, the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority issued a consultation on changes to the Working Environment Act and the Regulation on the Performance of Work to clarify the regulations on the psychosocial work environment. The note proposes changes to the Working Environment Act, in addition to proposing clarifying regulatory provisions that will clarify the requirements of the work environment regulations for the psychosocial work environment. We have invited Senior Advisor Kristin Johansen Cock to explain the proposal.
Program:
The seminar will be held digitally on Tuesday, November 26th, from 08:30 to 10:00 on Zoom, and you can register here:
Breakfast Seminar (Webinar) – The Good Work Environment on November 26th
Register by the end of the working day on November 25th. An invitation with a link to the seminar will be sent automatically. Information with the link and program will also be sent to all registrants the day before the seminar.
Hosts: June-Vibecke K. Indrevik, the university’s chief safety representative (UHVO) UiB, and Michael P. Riisøen, deputy UHVO UiB.
Welcome!
Information on the nomination deadline for Meltzer Prizes 2024:
only available in Norwegian
Artificial intelligence (AI) is both a scientific discipline, an engineering discipline, a business model and a tool. So what does it mean to operate with “sustainable” AI? Come and hear what two leading UiB experts, Jill Walker Rettberg and Marija Slavkovik, think about the topic.
19.11.2024 – 16.30–18.00 
Science building, Allegaten 41, Auditorium 1
https://www.uib.no/nt/172924/er-kunstig-intelligens-ki-b%C3%A6rekraftig
(only available in Norwegian)