{"id":29177,"date":"2026-10-02T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/?p=29177"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:38:58","slug":"ukens-leder-silke-appel-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/ukens-leder-silke-appel-16\/","title":{"rendered":"This weeks editorial - Silke Appel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1.jpg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28498 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1.jpg 420w, https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1-10x12.jpg 10w, https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/files\/2026\/05\/Silke-Apell-instituttleder-1-300x375.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September has been a very good month for K2 in terms of research: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eystein Husebye's group published an exciting article in Science Translational Medicine about how hormone overproduction at night or early in the morning in primary aldosteronism can be measured with a new method they have developed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.aeb7517?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww4.uib.no%2F\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.aeb7517?referrer=httpswww4.uib.no<\/a>). The study was also mentioned on UiB's website (<a href=\"https:\/\/www4.uib.no\/forskning\/aktuelt\/oppdager-farlig-hormonforstyrrelse-mens-pasienten-sover),\">https:\/\/www4.uib.no\/forskning\/aktuelt\/oppdager-farlig-hormonforstyrrelse-mens-pasienten-sover),<\/a>), <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Stefan Johansson's group (with medical student of the research line Jonas Sundfjord as joint first author) published a great article on how our genes control weight development in childhood in Nature Genetics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-026-02772-y\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-026-02772-y<\/a>). It has not been mentioned on the website yet, but was mentioned in NRK Dagsrevyen on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simona Chera received an award from Novo Nordisk, and Emmet Mc Cormack and Pascal Gelebart were awarded a Verification Grant from the Research Council of Norway. Congratulations to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And last but not least: You have all received a calendar invitation to a general meeting with the finance working group, led by Rolf Reed, for a review of the report, 26 October at 10-11:30, auditorium AHH. I hope as many people as possible can participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silke<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear everyone,<\/p>\n<p>September has been a very good month for K2 in terms of research: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>September has been a very good month for K2 in terms of research: Eystein Husebye's group published an exciting article in Science Translational Medicine about how hormone overproduction at night or early in the morning in primary aldosteronism can be measured with a new method they have developed (https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.aeb7517?referrer=httpswww4.uib.no). The study was also mentioned on UiB's website (https:\/\/www4.uib.no\/forskning\/aktuelt\/oppdager-farlig-hormonforstyrrelse-mens-pasienten-sover) <\/p>\n<p>Then Stefan Johansson's group (with medical student of the research line Jonas Sundfjord as joint first author) published a great article on how our genes control weight development in childhood in Nature Genetics (https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41588-026-02772-y). It has not been mentioned on the website yet, but was mentioned in NRK Dagsrevyen on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Simona Chera received an award from Novo Nordisk, and Emmet Mc Cormack and Pascal Gelebart were awarded a Verification Grant from the Research Council of Norway. Congratulations to everyone!<\/p>\n<p>And last but not least: You have all received a calendar invitation to a general meeting with the finance working group, led by Rolf Reed, for a review of the report, 26 October at 10-11:30, auditorium AHH. I hope as many people as possible can participate.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Silke<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/2026\/10\/02\/ukens-leder-silke-appel-16\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5627,"featured_media":28498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukens-leder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29182,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29177\/revisions\/29182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}