Here is a link to the event on the website: https://www.uib.no/en/med/177920/falch-lecture-2025-prof-feiko-ter-kuile

After three memorable years at K2, the time has come for me to say goodbye and take on new adventures.

Serving as a research advisor at K2 has been both demanding and rewarding. Demanding, because there’s always more to do, more to learn, and more to strive for in the ever-competitive world of research funding. Rewarding, because I have had the pleasure and privilege of working alongside brilliant colleagues and engaging with inspiring research proposals. Together, we’ve celebrated some sweet successes, and I’m proud to have played a part in them.

Though I’m moving on, I’d love to stay in touch (LinkedIn). If you come to Copenhagen, don’t hesitate to reach out – I’d be delighted to catch up over a cup of coffee.

I wish you the best of luck with your future endeavours!

Susanna

Digital: The event will be streamed

20 May 9:30–11:00

The Research Council is organizing a dialogue-based café about COST. This webinar is specifically designed for those of you who are wondering why and how to join a COST network, including how to participate in working groups for each network.

• COST.
• COST-nettverk,
• https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2025/cost-kafe-may/

The Communication Department (KA) at the University of Bergen has created a new team to work dedicatedly with communication support for all faculties. The change is part of a larger organizational development process that was carried out in 2024–2025.

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Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, the UK

• Monday May 26th
•  Armauer Hansens hus: Auditorium AHH
• 12.15-13.00
• The causes and consequences of obesity, lessons from the extremes

Coffee/tea and snacks will be served outside the auditorium after the lecture
with plenty of time to discuss science with O´Rahilly

• Tuesday May 27th – Auditorium glasblokkene
• 10.15-11.00: GDF15, a sentinel hormone with implications for maternal health
• Chairs: Marc Vaudel and Stefan Johansson

Mohn Center for Diabetes Precision Medicine, Department of Clinical Science,
O’Rahilly’s research has illuminated many aspects of human endocrine and
metabolic physiology and pathophysiology, frequently gaining insights from genetic
discovery in human extreme phenotypes.

Some highlights include the discovery that humans can become obese as a result of mutations in single genes (PCSK1, Leptin, MC4R), the role of MC3R in puberty timing, and the intricate role of how GDF15 cause nausea and vomiting during pregnancy.

After both lectures, there will be plenty of time to discuss with Stephen.

Cluster 1 Health 22 May

The Horizon Europe info days give to prospective applicants and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation the opportunity to get information and ask questions about the main funding instruments, processes of Horizon Europe

Cluster 1 focuses on Health and aims to deliver on the following six destinations matching the Strategic Plan:

• Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
• Living and working in a health-promoting environment
• Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
• Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
• Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
• Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health-related industry

22 May at 9.00 CET

Click here for more information

The program aims to strengthen participants’ development as group leaders, provide inspiration to build good research environments and ensure good framework conditions for research and research collaboration. Through the program, participants will work on challenges from their own everyday lives.

Target group
• Participants must be group leaders for research groups or research projects
• Participants should normally be employed at least 80% at UiB.
• Participants must have at least one year left of leadership responsibility at the start of the program
• Those participating in other leadership programs at UiB will not be given priority.

The program consists of 2 sessions that run over two months. Each session is built up of thematic blocks that are introduced by short professional presentations and contributions of experience, and form the basis for individual reflection and discussions/work in groups.
• Session 1: 2-3 September 2025
• Session 2: 22-23 October 2025

More information and registration https://www.uib.no/hr/170492/program-forskningsledelse-ved-uib

FACULTY OF MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN

DEFENSE – PH.D. DEGREE

Luka Tandaric

The candidate is affiliated with the Department of Clinical Science (Klinisk institutt 2)
Main supervisor: Professor Line Bjørge
Co-supervisors: Professor Emmet McCormack, Ph.D. Liv Cecilie Vestrheim Thomsen, and Researcher Katrin Kleinmanns

Trial lecture:Friday, May 23, 2025, at 10:15 AM

Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansen’s House, Haukelandsveien 28
Assigned topic: “Targeted therapies in cancer – from their introduction to future perspectives”

Public defense:Friday, May 23, 2025, at 12:15 PM

Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansen’s House, Haukelandsveien 28

Title of the dissertation:
“Rethinking High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma: Towards Personalized Immunotherapy through Preclinical, Translational and Clinical Evaluation of Combined CD73 and PD-L1 Blockade”

1st opponent: Professor Frederic Amant, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2nd opponent: Professor Leticia Oliveira-Ferrer, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
3rd member of the committee: Researcher Carina Strell, University of Bergen

The defense will be chaired by Professor Emerita Birgitta Åsjø.

Open to all interested parties

As part of the central support for SFF applicants, the Communications Department invites you to a seminar on June 10. We will provide tips and advice on planning communication work in a future SFF, and on profiling the initiatives in this first application phase.

https://www.uib.no/ka/177978/sff-og-kommunikasjon

Upcoming calls 2025 by Margarethe Bittins, Faculty of Medicine:

Funding Opportunities 2025-2 K2

From challenges to shared opportunities with powerful visualization tools.

June 11, 8-10 a.m., Bouvet, Solheimsgaten 15

Are you facing an issue that you don’t quite know how to approach? Or are you struggling to create a common understanding of a challenge?

This morning we will give you concrete examples of methods and tools that you can use to visualize a challenge or problem. We will refer to practical examples from the healthcare sector, and you will learn a little about how you can put them to use.

https://www.bouvet.no/kurs/kategorier/frokostseminarer/hjerterom-7

Webinar on the 2025 call: June 12, 10:00–11:30

MSCA Doctoral Networks (DN) are highly sought-after programs that fund PhD candidates from around the world in European research training networks. These networks, or projects, last four to five years and can fund up to 15 PhD students for up to three years.

There are three types of DN:

• European Standard Networks
• European Joint Doctorates (joint degrees)
• European Industrial Doctorates (industry/public sector PhDs)

MSCA DN is open to all disciplines and has no thematic priorities. This makes them highly competitive. Therefore, we recommend that prospective participants/supervisors in Doctoral Networks attend this webinar. Doing so increases the chances that your DN will receive funding.

The 2025 call opens on May 28, and the application deadline is November 25, 2025.

https://www.forskningsradet.no/arrangementer/2025/msca-dn-webinar-2025-utlysinga/

Nordic Cancer Union Grant Call 2025 – funding to support and stimulate collaborative cancer research within the Nordic countries

The Nordic Cancer Union (NCU) provides funding to support and stimulate collaborative cancer research within the Nordic countries. The applying researcher’s and collaborators involved in the project must be working in at least three, and preferably several different Nordic countries. The research project must be cancer relevant and uniquely suited to be carried out within the Nordic countries, and the effect of collaboration should be synergistic.

The main focus of NCU funded research is «clinical epidemiology». For more information, see website and Application Guidelines 2025.

The application deadline is 10th of September at 16.00. Apply here.

For any enquiries, contact ncu@kreftforeningen.no

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