Defence - Ingeborg Nerbø Reiten – 24.10.25

Defence - Ingeborg Nerbø Reiten – 24.10.25

Place: Birkhaugsalen, Sentralblokken, HUS, Jonas Lies vei 65

Time: 24.10-25

Dissertation title: "New Molecules and Repurposed Drugs for Improved Cancer Therapy: Exploring Effects of Drug Combinations and Liposomal Encapsulation"

Defence– Sanaa Suleiman Said – 29.10-25

Defence Sanaa Suleiman Said

Location: Auditorium, Armauer Hansens Hus, Haukelandsveien 28

Time: 29.10-25

Dissertation title: “Rheumatoid Arthritis in Zanzibar: Exploring Clinical Presentation, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Economic Implications of Care”

Leader of the week - Silke Appel

Dear everyone,

This week is Nobel Prize week. As an immunologist, I am particularly pleased that the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries of peripheral tolerance (click "read more" for link)

The consultation deadline for the multi-campus model has passed, and now work is underway to get a good plan in place. Gottfried Greve is the new project manager for Vestlandslegen and comes to the process with extensive experience, which gives us the confidence that we will find a good solution for the study plan going forward. Please follow the newsletters from Vestlandslegen: click on "read more" for the link

For the implementation of OSKE12 on December 4th, we still need more helpers, remember to sign up! Click on "read more" for the link

Also remember that everyone must register any side jobs they may have: click "read more" for link

The agenda for the next faculty board meeting next week (October 16) is available online (click on "read more" for link). I recommend that you read through it, there are several issues on the agenda that concern us at K2 (including evaluation and proposals for organizing the financial services, new curriculum for the integrated master's program in pharmacy, mandate for a review of the core facilities).

And finally: Remember to register for the faculty's research day on Tuesday, October 21st, 11:30-15:00 at Eitri. This year's theme is "New challenges in academia". Click on "read more" for the link

Have a really good weekend!

Silke

Defence- Nasir Saeed – 17.10.25

Defence Nasir Saeed

Place: Auditorium BB building, Haukeland University Hospital

Time: 17.10-25

Dissertation title: "Follow-up of patients with acute chest pain and the use of cardiac biomarkers for long-term prognostic assessment"