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.
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 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
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
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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.
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."
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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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).
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…
Happy New Year! You can now apply for the desired period at the welfare cabins for spring 2026, in the period April 9 - June 28, 2026
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.
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.
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.
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…
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,
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
Den første uken i desember ble OSKE12 gjennomført med stor suksess. OSKE12 er den siste eksamenen for medisinstudentene i sitt siste semester, og markerer et viktig steg mot å bli ferdig med medisinutdanningen. Denne eksamenen tester studentenes kliniske ferdigheter og…
Skal du sende julegaver til utlandet, er det greit å se på fristene. For julepost i Norge anbefales 17. desember, pakker vil i sendingstiden øke med inntil 1 til 2 dager fra 17.12.2025. For at du skal være sikker på…
På LinkedIn deler Det medisinske fakultetet aktuelle saker, forsking, stillingsutlysinger og innblikk i det viktige arbeidet som skjer hos oss. Bli med og bygg nettverket vårt ved å følge siden. Trykk her!
Transport- og parkseksjonen (TPS) ved UiB informerer om rutiner for post og transport i julen: Vi ønsker alle en riktig god jul og godt nyttår! Foto/ill.: Jan Terje Nygaard / Eiendomsavdelingen
