Category: Research

UiB project receives over five million euros to reduce child mortality

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UiB has received 5.3 million euros from the EU for the PRoRota project, which will investigate whether probiotics, better hygiene education and mathematical models can reduce child mortality related to diarrhea in low- and middle-income countries. The project tests whether probiotics can improve the effect of the rotavirus vaccine in a large study with 4,000 newborns in Tanzania, Malawi and Ivory Coast. In addition, a warning system for rotavirus outbreaks is being developed and research is being conducted on how WASH routines can work better in practice.

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Scientists have created the first map of lipid transport in cells

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Lipids build the membranes that surround the cell and separate its internal compartments from each other. This is what gives each compartment in the cell its own identity and makes normal cell function possible. For this system to work, lipids must constantly be transported precisely between different membranes. This is a process that scientists have long had limited understanding of.

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The research program is seeking new research projects and supervisors for cohort 25.

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The research program at the Faculty of Medicine is currently recruiting students from the 2025 cohort for admission in the fall of 2026. The faculty encourages research communities to submit project proposals that are suitable for the research program, and reminds that the students are motivated, but often without previous research experience and therefore need close follow-up at the beginning.

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Vil du nå fram med forskningen din?

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Det medisinske fakultet ønsker å gjøre forskningen vår mer synlig og tilgjengelig for samfunnet. Når forskere deler innsikt i media, styrker vi den offentlige samtalen med fakta og faglig tyngde – og bidrar til bedre beslutningsgrunnlag. På fakultetets nettsider finner…

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Anders Jahres Prize 2026

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Attached you will find the announcement and invitation to nominate candidates for the Anders Jahre Prize for Medical Research 2026. The announcement specifies that only professors of medicine have the right to nominate candidates, and this is done by filling out the electronic form linked in the attached announcement by February 1, 2026....

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20th Annual Research Presentations at the Graduate School of Clinical Medicine 28–30 January 2026

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Dear researchers at the Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), Department of Clinical Science (K2) and Helse-Vest,

On behalf of the Graduate School of Clinical Medicine, we are pleased to invite you to present your work at the 20th Annual Research Presentations. This is a great opportunity to showcase your research – and a chance to win prizes ranging from 3,000 NOK to 10,000 NOK. The event will take place at Haukeland University Hospital from 28 to 30 January 2026.

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Evaluation of medicine and health sciences

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On April 8, 2025, the national report from the professional evaluation of medicine and health sciences was launched. The evaluation work began in 2023. The main goal of the professional evaluation was to assess the quality of Norwegian medical and health research, the framework conditions for research and the relevance of the research in…

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