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New CCBIO course “Cancer-related vascular biology”
The registration link is now ready for the brand new CCBIO course: “CANCER-RELATED VASCULAR BIOLOGY”.
Thorough understanding of general and cancer-related vascular biology is regarded important to understand processes like cancer growth, sustainability and progression, and is suggested to be a relevant target for therapy in various diseases. Through this new three-week course set up as part of the CCBIO/Harvard INTPART partnership between the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and CCBIO, the participants will meet and discuss with international experts who have been in the frontline of vascular biology research for decades.
Some of the topics that will be covered: Basics of vascular biology; vascular biology related therapeutic approaches; biomarkers in vascular biology – from discovery to clinical application; lymphangiogenesis and vascular biology in non-cancerous diseases. Complete program will soon be announced on this web page, where you also can find more information.
The course is open for all interested, such as Master students, undergraduate students of the Medical Research Program, PhD students, postdocs, researchers and technicians.
(The course is currently awaiting approval as a 10 ECTS course). Priority will be given to undergraduate students in case of fully booked only. No course fee.
The course runs three separate weeks this fall, with a mix of lectures, discussions and assignments:
Course week 1: September 17-21
Course week 2: October 1-5
Course week 3: November 12-16
Research seminars by the Harvard faculty which are part of the course, will also be open to audience not following the complete course. Separate information will be issued of these when date/time and abstracts are available.
If you have any questions, please contact the Bergen course coordinator Elisabeth.wik@uib.no
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 3 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.
Deadlines
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
PhD comics
ERC Grant to Randi Bertelsen
This summer we received the fantastic news that Randi Bertelsen is awarded the prestigeous research grant given to highly talented young researchers, ERC Starting Grant! The project will run for 5 years and study how the composition of oral bacteria affect lung health. Congratulations Randi!
Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Health Sciences (PHDPED900)
Appliation is open to the course PHDPED900 Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Health Sciences.
Application deadline: 20 August
Link to application form
The course is intended for PhD candidates and Post doctors with little or no experience as teachers.
The course will prepare the candidates for teaching, assessing and supervising students at bachelor- and master level within the health sciences. The objective of the course includes increasing the candidates understanding of how students learn and how to facilitate learning processes.
For the full course description and time schedule, please see the course page.
If you have questions, contact Sigrun Stefnisdottir.
Norwegian Harkness Fellowship
The Commonwealth Fund invites promising mid-career professionals—government policymakers, academic researchers, clinical leaders, hospital and insurance managers, and journalists—from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom—to apply for an opportunity to spend up to 12 months in the United States as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Fellows work with leading U.S. experts to study health care delivery reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home countries. A rich program of seminars organized by the Fund throughout the year further enhances the fellowship experience. The Harkness Fellowship awards up to US $130,000 in support, with an additional family allowance (approximately $60,000 for partner and two children up to age 18).
The deadline for applications from Norway is November 12, 2018.
More information can be found here, in addition, there will be a webinar for potential applicants to learn more about the Harkness Fellowships on Wednesday, August 29that 5:00 p.m. (CEST).The registration link is as follows: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/4hacw3dh8b1m&eom
Centre for internationalization of education (SIU) has announced new calls for fall 2018
The Russia program – Collaboration between universities and university colleges in Russia and Norway
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018
UTFORSK – Partnership to join education and research in collaboration with Brasil, India, Kina, Russland, Sør-Afrika and Japan
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018
InternAbroad – International training mobility for students
Funding per project: NOK 300 000
Deadline: 25 September 2018
Globalink – internship in company, collaboration between Norway and Canada
Funding per project: NOK 90 000
Deadline: Ongoing
Applications are to be submitted via SIU’s online application form Espresso. Please inform the leadership at the department about the planned application. If you have any questions about the calls, please contact Nedelina Naydenova or Helge Bjørlo at the Division of student affairs.
Deadlines
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
PhD comics
Head of department in media last week
Interview with Pål at NRK Vestlandsrevyen regarding tablets that replace insulin injections for children with permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus.
Here is link to the report in Vestlandsrevyen.
Article in NRK Hordaland can be found here.
PhD Supervision Course
There has been feedback that the e-course for PhD supervisors is not easy to find. Here is therefore a link to the course.
Supervisors must still be admitted to the course. This is done under “People / People”.
Call on antimicrobial resistance
Bergen Research Foundation has announced a call on anti-microbial resistance (AMR). You can find the call text and a sketch template on their webpage.
The programme will target the following key areas:
A – Therapeutics
B – Diagnostics
C – Surveillance
Projects may address the bacterial pathogens and the resistances identified in the Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria published by the WHO. Multi- and extensively drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis may also be included. Other pathogens are not included. Please read the call text for further specifications.
You can apply for projects in the range of 15-20 million NOK over a period of 4 years. Please send the pre-proposal in one PDF-file to grants@bfstiftelse.no at or before the deadline 3 September 2018.
Interested in future funding announcements from Horizon2020?
Impressed by Research Council of Norway’s previous events, Brussels has moved their next event from Central Europe to Oslo. The international network meeting, entitled “Brokerage for Health”, will focus on calls in the ongoing EU’s health program with deadlines during 2019.
The meeting offers several possibilities. Perhaps you are curious about the health program and considering applying EU calls in the future. You have maybe found a relevant call and want to collect hints and advice. Or you have decided to apply but need additional partners. You will also have the opportunity to present your project in the format of a 5-minute flash presentation (deadline to submit the flash presentation is 17 August 2018).
The event will take place 3-4 September in Oslo and the registration opens 15 June.
A hint: remember to bring business cards. If you do not have business cards, you can order them here.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Amra (Laboratory building, 8th floor).
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 4 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.
Deadlines
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
PhD comics
K2 NYTT WEEK 23
Dear all
The end of spring semester is approaching and along come the tasks of mid-term PhD evaluations as well as student (bachelor/master) theses evaluations. Exams have hopefully been prepared, ready to release but censoring awaits. The 20th of June is the coming full-scale OSCE; 160 6th semester students going through skill stations. We wish you the best taking care of this task and thanks to all contributors!
Producing written or OSCE exams, sitting though evaluations and performing censoring is not visualized in the educational schedule (as opposed to lectures), but this work is not less important! The students’ studying will often be guided by (former) exams. Thus it is important to develop tasks/questions considered of high importance for what the students really need to learn to perform in their future roles as pharmacist, doctors, nutritionists, molecular biologists or whatever field you as K2 teacher is responsible for.
And do not forget: note all your exam/evaluation work in your teaching portfolio that you have easily available at your computer. This to ensure documentation of your contribution in this part of your academic/teaching position.
And finally; when all evaluations are finished for this semester: enjoy summer without educational responsibilities.
Helseinnovatørskolen (norwegian only)
Helseinnovatørskolen er et kurstilbud i innovasjon og entreprenørskap for fremtidens leger og helseforskere i Skandinavia. Målet er å lære deltakerne hvordan innovasjonsprosesser i biotek- og medtek-bedrifter fungerer.
Til høsten starter neste runde med Helseinnovatørskolens kurs «Entrepreneurship in healthcare», påmeldingsfrist 27. juni.
Der vil deltakerne lære hvordan man kan gjøre en forskningside om til en bedrift. De lærer fra erfarne entreprenører og forskere, eksempler på mentorselskaper og inkubatorer på kurset er AstraZeneca, Serendipity partners og Aleap health incubator.
Intervju med deltakere: “Møttes på Helseinnovatørskolen – nå starter de selskap”
Mer informasjon og påmelding finner du her.
Forskningsdagene 19. – 30. september 2018 (norwegian only)
22. september: Forskertorg på festplassen.
Stand fra MED: CCBIO
26. september: Forsker Grand Prix regional finale. Deltagere fra MED: Siri Flagestad Kvalheim (IKO) og Illimar Rekand (IBM)
Meld deg på forskningsdagenes nyhetsbrev her.
For mer informasjon: http://www.forskningsdagenebergen.com og http://www.forskningsdagene.no
Falch Lecture 2018
Welcome to the Falch Lecture 2018 by Philippe Van de Perre.
Professor Philippe Van de Perre from the University Montpellier, France is professor of medicine and virology and head of Department of bacteriology-virology and vice-president of the directorate of the University Teaching Hospital in Montpellier. He is also the director of the INSERM research unit “Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic Infection”.
Philippe Van de Perre is involved in HIV research since 1982. As long-term resident in Rwanda – where he conducted the first cohort study demonstrating the transmission of HIV by breastfeeding (NEJM 1991) – and in Burkina Faso, he has focused mostly on translational research on mechanisms of transmission of HIV and associated infections. He has served in multiple expert consultations for WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS and EU/EDCTP, mainly on breastfeeding and HIV prevention. He has authored over 450 scientific articles and chapters, with more than 14,000 citations and an H index of 65.
Over the last 15 years, he has had a close collaboration with the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen on the prevention of transmission of HIV-1 by breastfeeding.
The title of the lecture is: “Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1” and it’s part of the Faculty Day 2018. Read more about ithere: https://www.uib.no/en/med/117882/faculty-day-2018
The lecture will be followed by a light lunch.
New travel agency agreement
UiB will as of 1.7.2018 have a new travel agency agreement (due to a new national agreement regarding travel agency services from the Norwegian central procurement unit). The new supplier is G Travel. More information on the new agreement will be available in the beginning of June.
Booking of business travels until 1.7.2018 must be made through Berg-Hansen AS as per usual.
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 16 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.
Deadlines
Dear all,
Please see below the updated links for external funding:
External funding opportunities: http://www.uib.no/en/med/112772/external-funding-opportunities
Funding opportunities for education: http://www.uib.no/med/113987/funding-opportunities-education
The webpages are updated every second week. New calls are marked as NEW.
Kind regards,
Amra, Ramune and Kaia
PhD comics
Sun and joy
It is not only the sunny days we can be happy about these days: 4 of 6 awards of the Medical faculty go to researchers/environments at K2! Mari Kyllesø Halle gets the award for the PhD thesis of the year for her thesis “Molecular alterations suggesting new treatment strategies in uterine carcinomas”, The Academic Quality Award (Studiekvalitetsprisen) goes to FARM295 Pharmaceutics (Galenisk farmasi) with course responsible Emmet McCormack, Gottfried Greve gets The Internationalization of Education Award (Pris for internasjonalisering i studiene) for his efforts in MED9, and Rebecca Cox and Kristin Greve-Isdahl Mohn are awarded the Dissemination award of the year for their contributions to the vaccine debate. The awards of the Medical faculty will be handed out at the Faculty day June 14th 2018 10.00-13.00 at Haukeland University Hospital, Main Auditorium. Congratulations to all of you!
So far I have not gotten any input regarding thematic area you consider important for future-oriented research that Pål wrote about in K2Nytt week 19. You still have today to come with suggestions (deadline is 1.6.), so take this opportunity to influence the future of K2!
Best regards,
Silke
HSE corner: Empty the backup freezer in 1M.
There are currently several (forgotten) samples in the freezer that are not on the list of content. We ask that everyone take responsibility for a check of samples that have been left behind, and remind you that the use of the freezer must be agreed with Julie Stavnes.
Åpning av Mohn ernæringsforskningslaboratorium (norwegian only)
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 11 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