”På Høyden” has written an article about scientists from Norwegian institutions that are among the world’s most cited scientists.
Kenneth Dickstein is on the list, Kenneth is working at Department of Clinical science but Works in Stavanger.
Read the article here. (in Norwegian)

Subject: Fine tuning of antibody responses by distinct T follicular helper subsets in humans.
Speaker: Professor Hide Ueno, Mount SInai School of Medicine, New York, USA

Time: Monday November 21st 2016 – 11:00 – 12:00
Place: 5.1 and 5.2, 5th floor, lab.building

Here you can read about the announcement of seed money from the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel. The announcement is being forwared on behalf of Professor dr.juris Gudrun Holgersen who is the University’s representative in the Norwegian home board of the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel.

Here you can find the announcement and here you can find application forms

Who can apply?
· Researchers at the University of Bergen can apply for funding for the development of joint projects with Carl-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

What can be supported?
· Activities that identify and start collaborative projects in research and education. Seed Funds may be allocated to travel, work meetings, workshops and symposia.

How much support?
· It can be assigned max. EUR 6,000 (approximately NOK 55,000) in funding per project.

Where the application is sent?
· Applications should be submitted to the German-Norwegian study center in Kiel v / project manager Andrea Hesse email dnsz_buero@email.uni-kiel.de

Deadline?
· The application deadline is December 15th, 2016.

Havjin Jacob
Time: November 14th at 11:00 AM
Place: Laboratoriebuilding 8th floor 8.1
For more information

Attached you will find an invitation and the schedule to the Nordic PhD course Bio-8303: “Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Cancer”. The course will take place at the University of Tromsø in week 10 this year (March 6^th to March 10^th, 2016). An international faculty teaches the course (please find the preliminary lecture schedule attached).

There is no course fee and for the cost of 4.000 NOK each external PhD student will be offered housing at an Apartment Hotel in the centre of Tromsø.

For more information and application see http://uit.no/mcac

Please note that the application deadline is already DECEMBER 1^st.

It’s time to start planning your leftover holidays. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry has set the following deadlines for application for holidays for 2016:

Application for leftover holidays should be sent in PAGA no later than 01.10.2016.

Information about holidays and how to register holidays can be found here: http://pagaweb.w.uib.no/english/5-vacation/ If you have any questions regarding Holidays and registering please contact Personnel Consultant: Elin Myhrvold – Email: elin.Myhrvold@UiB.no

The topic for the coming preliminary call is Minimally and non-invasive methods for early detection and/or progression of cancer. Norwegian researchers should start to prepare for their participation in the call. You may read more about here

 https://kreftforeningen.no/forskning/sok-forskningsmidler/

 http://www.transcanfp7.eu/news-update/preliminary-announcement.html

H2020 Health, demographic change and wellbeing

You may apply at SC1 Health in 2017, click here for more information

Please, find the enclosed announcement of the upcoming MedViz Seminar on Friday 11.11 (12:00-13:00) here.

There will be light food and beverages served for free and opportunities for informal mingling afterwards.