This week, the Bioinformatics in Bergen conference organized by the Computational Biology Unit gathered more than 60 researchers interested in bioinformatics as well as renown international speakers. The conference was a tremendous success. A Master’s student and a PhD candidate were awarded with prizes for poster and talk… and both are from K2! Please join us in congratulating Lorensha Naidoo and Kira Hoeffler!
https://twitter.com/cbu_bergen/status/1661764313244135428

We look forward to welcoming you in 2024, for an iteration that will be held together with the Norwegian Bioinformatics Days.

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Heart disease in women – Meeting with the Jewish Healthcare Foundation
Place: Meeting room 8.1 Laboratory building, 8th floor
Time: 08.06.23 kl. 10-11 CEST
Chair: Professor Bente Moen

Program
Nancy Zions, Jewish Healthcare Foundation: Introduction about the Foundation and motivation for the visit to Norway (10 min)
Postdoctoral researcher Hilde Halland: Hypertension in women: Lots of knowledge but lack of implementation (15 min)
Associate professor Dana Cramariuc: Sex and gender disparities in heart valve disease (15 min)
Discussion
Tea and coffee will be served☕️

Agenda General Assembly

Tuesday 13 June 2023 at 13:00-14:00 on Zoom

Welcome by the Forum Chair

1. Appointment of Chair for the meeting
2. Appointment of tellers 
3. Approval of the agenda
4. Approval of minutes from General Assembly 24 November 2022, hosted online and at OsloMet
5. Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research 2022; activities and finances by Jon Øyvind Odland
6. Activities of Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research 2023 – ECTMIH symposium in Utrecht, November 2023, Jon Øyvind Odland
7. Global Health Norway and Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research. Introduction by Jon Øyvind Odland and Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar: future plans and perspectives
8. Elections, presented by the Election committee:
   9 board members
   5 substitute members
   3 members of election committee
   3 substitute members for election committee

End of meeting

Minutes from last years GA here.

Course 6 June 9.00-12.00 Alrek Helseklynge

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.

Increasing your literacy on the innovation topic will not only increase your abilities to succeed with grants, but also help you make your research more relevant to society. In this course, we will discuss what “innovation” in academia actually means, get inspiration from good examples, learn about ways to increase your innovation potential, talk about innovation management in practice and about ways to collaborate with partners outside of academia; oftentimes a prerequisite for successful innovation.

Topics
•    Topic 1: Innovation in academia – examples and concepts
•    Topic 2: How to boost your innovation potential
•    Topic 3: Innovation management in collaborative research projects
•    Topic 4: Collaboration with partners outside of academia

Target group
Suitable for researchers who want to boost their innovation potential to increase the impact of their research.

Invitation from Open DIPS and Haukeland University Hospital

We’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

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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.

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24^th May: NSI gathering with talk by virologist Florian Krammer. Pizza and quiz after the talk
When: Wednesday 24^th 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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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