Jakub Vasicek
Dato: 29.januar
Place: Birkhaugsalen, Sentralblokken, HUS, Jonas Lies vei 65
Dissertation title: "Enabling Haplotype-Aware Proteomics to Better Connect Human Genomes and Proteomes"
Defence - Jakub Vasicek - 01/29/26
Category: News
Defence – Arne Carlsen – 21.01.26
Arne Carlsen
Date: 21.january
Location: Aula in Nye SUS, Ullandhaug, building C
Title of the thesis: "Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Infliximab and Adalimumab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Impact on treatment decisions"
Defence – Annabel Eide Ohldieck – 23.01.26
Annabel Eide Ohldieck
Date: 23.january
Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansens Hus, Haukelandsveien 28
Dissertation title: "Sex-specific associations of blood pressure and body mass index with cardiovascular complications: Insights from the Hordaland Health Study"
The pharmaceutical profession is exciting and wide-ranging!
Our own Lone Holst has helped collect material for the learning platform Farmasihistorie. Listen and read what 30 pharmacists have to offer in terms of stories from the world of pharmacy, at home and abroad.
IHI launches call 12: New opportunities for researchers and innovation communities
The European Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has now opened Call 12, an applicant-driven, one-stage call with five themes. Each theme is linked to one of the five specific objectives of IHI's strategic research and innovation agenda. The application deadline is 21 April 2026.
Breakfast seminar for PhD supervisors puts AI on the agenda
The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen invites PhD supervisors to a breakfast seminar on a current and popular topic: artificial intelligence in everyday research. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, February 11, 2026, 8:30–10:00 AM at Alrek Health Center.
Do you need help with communication?
On February 3, we will open the doors of the Communications Department for a new drop-in offer aimed at academic staff.
Here you can get low-threshold help with everything from media work and communication to social media and visual profile.
Read more and see the details here: Drop-in for communication help.
NVA reporting of scientific articles
This is a reminder that all researchers must check that their publications are registered in NVA (Christin), that the scientific articles are uploaded as full text and that the project number is included in publications where required, such as the Norwegian Research Council and the EU.
Share your research and get credits! Join the course: Project seminars in immunology
Bergen Research School in Inflammation (BRSI), in collaboration with Broegelmann's Research Laboratory (BRL), organizes project seminars every two weeks. The aim of the course is to provide a broad overview of a wide range of immunological research projects at the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Clinical Medicine. The course…
The Civitan Fund announces one million kroner for Alzheimer's research
The Civitan Norway Alzheimer's Research Fund is now opening applications for research funding for 2026. A total of NOK 1,000,000 will be awarded to Norwegian research projects that contribute to increased knowledge about Alzheimer's disease.
Working Environment Award 2025
Working Environment Award 2025
Do you know of a person/group/unit that you believe has made a special contribution to the work environment?
Then you can nominate for the Working Environment Award for 2025.
The deadline is 31.01.2026.
UiB invites you to the 3 Minute Thesis competition
PhD candidates at the University of Bergen now have the opportunity to test their communication skills in the international Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition challenges participants to present their research in just three minutes, with only one static slide as visual support, to a general audience.
Scientists have created the first map of lipid transport in cells
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.
Leader of the week - Silke Appel
Dear everyone,
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has had a few quiet days during the Christmas season and has started 2026 with new energy.
2026 will bring a number of changes, among other things, the financial officers from the faculty will move to the "PhD office" on the 8th floor of the lab building and be co-located with "our" financial officers (who are also employed at the faculty). This entails some relocation of office space for PhD candidates and postdocs, I apologize for the inconvenience this causes for those affected. Before the economists can move in, some rebuilding is required, but I hope that it does not take too long.
Let me also use this editorial to congratulate Professor Edvin Schei from IGS and his project group PROFMED (Medical Students' Professional Identity Formation During Practice in Hospitals), which was awarded the Western Norway Regional Health Authority's education award last night at the Western Norway Regional Health Authority's education conference. PROFMED aims to improve medical students' hospital placement learning, and support the development of a professional physician’s identity by: 1) systematically preparing students for workplace participation, and 2) educating the hospital physicians who interact with the students.
The project has been very successful, and the application of the knowledge from it will have a great effect on the successful completion of the hospital placement with many more students than before.
Have a really good weekend!
Silke
Friday waffle with Wafflepitch at Eitri
Friday waffle with Waffle Pitch at Eitri: Master's students in innovation and entrepreneurship in practice in spring 2026? HVL invites start-up companies, companies, institutions and clusters to apply.
Friday, January 9, 2026
13:00 14:00
Location: Eitri, Haukelandsbakken 31, 5021 Bergen
Welcome to the Rector's special concert 2026
Principal Margareth Hagen is pleased to invite you – with a companion – to this year's Principal's Gala Concert with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | Concert starts at 7:30 PM | Grieghallen
Sign up now by clicking "read more"
Course for employees at the Library of Medicine in spring 2026
The Library for Medicine offers courses with registration, for employees and fellows at the Faculty of Medicine and employees at Bergen Health. The courses are held on Zoom.
Reminder when registering holidays and absences
All holidays must be clarified with the immediate supervisor before applying for holidays in the self-service portal and entered in the comments field: "Holiday has been clarified with the immediate supervisor."
New major initiative aims to prevent Parkinson's and dementia
The new Innovation Center for Neuroresilience (ICoN) will shift the focus from treatment to prevention of neurodegenerative diseases. The center brings together leading researchers in close collaboration with Norwegian and international business, with status as a Center for Research-Driven Innovation (SFI).
Quantum physics could be the key to detecting cancer early
Imagine a blood test that could function like the dashboard in a car, alerting you before cancer develops. Researchers in Bergen are now using quantum physics and diamonds to make this possible…
New episode of Drivpodden is out!
Episode 2 of Driv – Center for Women's Health Research's podcast "Drivpodden" is out! In this episode, Marion Solheim is in conversation with Marte-Helene Bjørk, and the topic is migraine.
Doctoral graduation 30.01.2026
On Friday, January 30, the University of Bergen invites you to the first ceremonial doctoral conferment of the year. The ceremony marks new doctoral candidates who have defended their dissertations in the period August to December 2025.
An anniversary year with strong commitment
This year, UiB celebrated its 200th anniversary, making it the most visible year in UiB's history. It was an opportunity to showcase our proud scientific history, but also to invite the city in. We started in January with a fantastic light show that covered the entire front of the monumental building of the university museum.
Link between timing of menopause and endocrine-disrupting environmental toxins
Forskere har sett en sammenheng mellom å komme i overgangsalderen før fylte førti år og mengden PFAS-miljøgifter man har i blodet. Når eggstokkene går tom for egg, eller av andre grunner slutter å fungere, kommer kvinner i overgangsalderen. Som regel…
Defence – Arne Carlsen – 21.01.26
Arne Carlsen
Date: 21.january
Location: Aula in Nye SUS, Ullandhaug, building C
Title of the thesis: "Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Infliximab and Adalimumab in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Impact on treatment decisions"
Dear everyone,
Dear everyone,
Right at the end of 2025, we received three good news: Nina Langeland/Sabrina Moyo were awarded a Horizon Europe EDCTP3 project, Kristin Aakre was awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway, and Luiza Ghila was awarded funding from the Norwegian Cancer Society. Congratulations! Thus, 2025 has been a very successful year for K2 with several NFR and EU allocations. We are approaching the average of 25% BOA to basic funding (set by the faculty board) and will continue to work with this also in 2026. I really appreciate all the application writing and hope that we will continue with this in the years to come. It will be exciting to see if any of our 5 (!) Center of Excellence (SFF) applications proceed to round 2 😊
Congratulations also to Charalampos (Haris) Tzoulis and Jutta Dierkes from K1 who have received an SFI! Here there will be a lot of activities that perhaps some environments from K2 can benefit from. I take this opportunity to remind you that this was one of the pieces of advice in the EVALMEDHEALTH report: explore options with partners and sponsors from the industry.
Preparations for the Multi-Campus Model are in full swing, many of us spend a lot of time planning and coordinating how teaching will be done across campuses. Subject coordinators and academic resource persons in internal medicine and surgery from all campuses will gather in Bergen on 21 January 2026 (registration deadline 10 January) to discuss how the subjects can be distributed in a sensible way between the different semesters, I greatly appreciate all contributions! It is important that we find a good and sustainable way to educate future medical doctors.
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!
Silke