Category Archives: 2023

Shape the Future of Healthcare at our Hackathon

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Invitation from Open DIPS and Haukeland University Hospital

ImageWe’re excited to extend an invitation to you to participate in an event that promises not just to be intriguing, but also carries the potential to transform the way health services are delivered.

Open DIPS in collaboration with Haukeland University Hospital is hosting a two-day Hackathon on Tuesday 6th June from 08:00 to 15:30, and Wednesday 7th June from 08:00 to 13:30. The event is to be held at Eitri, Haukelandsbakken 31, 5009 Bergen.

Sign up here.

Why should you participate? We’re glad you asked!

  • Real-World Impact: This Hackathon provides a unique opportunity for you to contribute to the enhancement of health services. Your innovative solutions could potentially make a significant difference in the lives of healthcare personnel, patients, and hospitals.
  • Access to Advanced Tools: You’ll gain access to Open DIPS’s digital health service development ecosystem. Through theirdeveloper portal and open sandbox, you can experiment with your own apps and data tools specifically tailored for the health service.
  • Collaborative Innovation: You’ll work alongside clinicians, developers, designers, and students. DIPS and Haukeland University Hospital will be on hand to provide resources and support, ensuring a robust and collaborative environment.
  • Flexibility: While we will provide some predefined tasks, we also encourage participants to propose their own.

We hope that through this Hackathon, we can bring together a diverse set of minds and ideas to innovate and create solutions that revolutionize health services.

Registration closes on 31st May 2023. We encourage you to register early and secure your place in this pivotal event.

Let’s join hands in this exciting venture, paving the way towards a healthier, brighter future.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best, Eitri

Public Consultation on the SRIA for the future European Partnership for Rare Diseases

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The Public Consultation on the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda of the future European Rare Diseases Partnership is now open. You can share your voice here by the 09/06/2023.

Under Horizon Europe, the European Commission together with Member States and Associated Countries decided to implement the Rare Diseases Partnership which brings a unique vision that aims at leaving no one behind by supporting robust patient need-led research, by utilising and maximizing the power of health and research data, by engaging and coordinating regional, national, EU and international alignment in order to accelerate the development of new treatments and diagnostic pathways.

To build its strategy on the voice and input of all stakeholders and as part of the preparatory process of this future Rare Diseases Partnership (foreseen start in 2024) the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the RD Partnership is now open for public consultation.

We hope to gather the inputs of all types of stakeholders to make sure that the actions of the partnership will fit the needs and expectations of rare diseases community.

Both organisations and individuals can participate in this hearing.

Young researchers need to have fun!

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The annual K2 Junior Retreat for PhD candidates, post docs and researchers were held at Alrek on 27th of April. The aim of the retreat is to connect young researchers at the institute, and the program included speed dating exercises and elevator talks. Psychologist Andreas Schei, from the UiB HR department, held a session about the ups and down during the PhD.

He shared some worrying numbers and observations on mental health problems among young researchers, indicating that 25 – 50% will qualify for a mental disorder at some point during their research, and that there is a close connection between well-being, mental disorders, and dropout. However, the good news is that you can avoid emotional overwhelm by taking good care of yourself.  Social interaction and belonging are some of the best ways to boost our emotional strength to meet these challenges.

Following on Scheis´ advise: “It is harder to rebuild than to do preventive measures”, we are starting up a social committee at K2, to arrange fun get-togethers and create an arena to meet your fellows in a relaxed atmosphere.  We strongly advise you to join and to build a social network together with us. We hope many of you would also like to be part of the social committee, if so please get in touch with Adrianna, e-mail: adrianna.jebrzycka@uib.no

The Bergen International Conference on Hansens Disease

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2023 marks the 150 years anniversary of the discovery of leprosy bacillus. To commemorate this, the University of Bergen, in collaboration with Sasakawa Health Foundation, is proud to host an official anniversary conference in Bergen Norway, 20-22. June 2023. The conference is free and open for all. Read the whole program here and register before June 14.

 

Editorial

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Dear everyone!

There were many from both UiB and Haukeland hospitals who competed for the 4 final places in order to apply to K.G. Jebsen centers for medical research. As many as 3 out of 4 researchers who were invited to send a full application are from K2: Eva Gerdts, Bjørn Tore Gjertsen and Stian Knappskog. Congratulations! We are very proud and wish good luck!

  
Foto: ukjent                           Foto: Øystein Fykse/Haukeland universitetssykehus      Foto: Melanie Burford

May 17th is approaching with great steps, and all UiB employees are invited to participate in the main procession (departure from Museplassen at 9:30, or meeting at 10:15 at Koengen, kolonne 4). We will keep an eye on the weather forecast, but so far it looks promising 😊 With the Ascension of Christ the day after May17th, there are probably many who take a long weekend. There will therefore be no K2nytt next Friday.

Have a nice weekend!

FALCH LECTURE 2023 Alberto Ascherio

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The Epstein-Barr virus as the leading cause multiple sclerosis and the possible viral etiology of other neurodegenerative diseases.

Wednesday May 24, 2023 at 11.30-13.00 in the auditorium at Armauer Hansens Hus.

The Faculty of Medicine and Neuro-SysMed are happy to invite you to this year’s Falch Lecture, presented by Professor Alberto Ascherio from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. You are also invited to an informal networking lunch before the lecture (lunch 11.30-12.00). No charge, just remember to register here.

Complete event poster and full abstract here.

 

Norwegian Society of Immunology (NSI) Bergen Event

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24th May: NSI gathering with talk by virologist Florian Krammer. Pizza and quiz after the talk
When: Wednesday 24th May at 14.00 in Auditorium 1, BB-building.

Food and quiz (please register!): 15.00 in the Seminar room under the stairs in the BB-building.

Metabolism in the single cell era

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This workshop will present the last technical developments allowing the quantification of cellular level metabolism in rare cell populations up to the single cell level. These techniques will be presented applied to a large panel of research fields.

Phase I: Critical assessment
20-22 September, Bordeaux

Phase II: Technical workshop
October, Marseille and Lyon

For more info here.

Inclusive training K2-Administration.

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In May 2022, we started hiking up Ulriken from K2. Since then, we have been a group from the K2 Administration who have hiked up Ulriken every week, regardless of the weather. So far, we have completed 54 trips from K2 to Ulriken, and those of us who have participated every week have naturally gotten into top hiking shape. To join, send an email to Christina.flornes@uib.no.

Editorial

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Temporary report on RCN’s upcoming evaluation

In recent decades, RCN has carried out two evaluations of Norwegian research. Now a third round is underway. In November, two of the evaluations started: life sciences and natural sciences. In 2023, the remaining subjects are due, organized in two rounds: One evaluation for medicine and health, EVALMEDHELSE, in which the Faculty of Medicine is involved, and one for mathematics, IT and technology.

The main aim of the evaluation is to evaluate the quality and framework conditions for life science research in Norway.

Two levels are planned for evaluation: Administrative units and research groups. The administrative units for the Faculty of Medicine will be the institutes, i.e. K2 for us. When it comes to research groups, it is a big advantage for K2 that we all have defined research groups. The RCN has decided that the minimum requirements for a research group must be that there must be at least five researchers, of which at least three are permanent and as main position (at least 50%)  and they must have existed for at least three years. Here, of course, there is room for individual definitions. NFR states that it is not necessary to register everyone who is employed at an institute. It is also possible to merge groups that fit together. The division can thus be strategic, and one will naturally report on those who are good.

NFR will set up several expert panels that will report to a smaller number of evaluation committees. These in turn report to a national report committee.

The evaluation criteria include that the research must be relevant to society, be relevant for institutional purposes, work for diversity and equality and have a solid research output.

There will be more information about the evaluation at the Faculty Lunch on Wednesday 10 May.

The Department’s management will, in collaboration with the environment, define the research groups to be evaluated. A self-evaluation must be made for K2 and for each research group. Here it is important that the groups themselves come up with proposals for which research groups should be defined.

RCN will hold a webinar on 15 May 14-15. Follow here for more information.

The first deadline for schematic feedback to the faculty is 5 June. The evaluation itself will have a deadline of mid-September.

Cheers!

Boost your research potential with innovation perspectives

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Most funding schemes incorporate innovation perspectives into their application templates. These are especially visible in the chapters on impact but go beyond and should be found as a red line throughout a good research project – or rather, research and innovation project.

6 June 2023 at 9.00-12.00

https://www.uib.no/ferd/161949/optimize-your-research-potential-through-innovation-competencies

The 24th Broegelmann Lecture – Peder Olofsson

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Peder S Olofsson is the Head of Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Departmentof Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutetand the Scientific Director of the Stockholm Center for Biolectronic Medicine will give the talk Reaching beyond innervation to map mechanisms of neural regulation of inflammation.

Speaker: Peder S Olofsson, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Departmentof Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet
Title: Reaching beyond innervation to map mechanisms of neural regulation of inflammation
Chair: Helena Harris
When: May 15th, 2023 at 3:00-4:00. Snacks and coffee will be provided prior to the lecture, remember to register!
Place: Auditorium B302, Sentralblokken 3rd floor, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen

Registration: at this link  Deadline is May 8th at 12 AM

The DAM foundation’s initiative on «registered report»

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Already from the next call, which will be published in the fall of 2023, the foundation will launch the new two-year initiative on the publication form «registered report».

It will be optional whether you apply in the usual way or as a registered report, but applicants are guaranteed a slightly higher chance of approval if they choose to publish their research as a registered report.

On Thursday 4 May, Dam held a webinar about the new initiative. A recording of the webinar will be published on the Dam foundation’s web pages below.

The Dam foundation’s web pages

Here you will learn what a «registered report» is, why Dam is investing in it and what you need to consider if you want to apply.

 

Interested in the development of European health data space?

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The TEHDAS joint action invites experts, professionals and decision-makers in health sector across Europe to the final event of the project to learn about the results and to discuss the development of European health data space. The hybrid event will take place on 14 June 2023. We will focus on the current developments of the European health data space.

https://tehdas.eu/event/tehdas-stakeholder-forum-2023/

How to write competitive proposals for the ERC Synergy Grant

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The competition for ERC Grants can be daunting, but UiB has many examples of researchers who have won and enjoy the academic freedom of an ERC grant. Find out how to best prepare your application with this digital workshop. Synergy Grants are open to all researchers regardless of years of experience. Synergy Grants are designed for a group of two to a maximum of four Principal Investigators (PIs) to work together and bring different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. One will be designated as the corresponding PI (cPI).

14.06.2023 – 09.00–15.06.2023 – 11.30
Digital: Zoom
Katie Anders
Påmeldingsfrist: 13.06.2023 – 23.59

More info or registration here.