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Nathaniel Comfort is Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively about the history of human genetics and the relationships between attempts to understand human heredity and to “improve” humans. His online lecture will be followed by an online panel session. The event is organized in lieu of the corona-postponed 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, and is a collaboration between the conference’s program committee, The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Science Studies Colloquium. More info here.
MD Sigrid Aune de Rodez Benavent at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “An ophthalmic acumen - On symptoms and signs in early Multiple Sclerosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc. Myint Myint Wai at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Contraception and Fertility in Myanmar: Trends and Dynamics - A study of married women’s Contraceptive use and Unmet Need for Family Planning in Yangon south and north” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Dr. Esti Yeger-Lotem, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry & Pharmacology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, will present her lecture "Elucidating disease mechanisms via their tissue-selectivity."
Dr. med Oliver Henning at Institute for Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The patient's perspective on epilepsy - challenges, sexual problems, provision of information and adherence to treatment” for the degree of Dr. Philos (Doctor Philosophiae).
On behalf of BIOCAT, PX-Oslo and NCMM, the NBS Oslo Chapter would like to invite all interested researchers to the mini-symposium: "Biomolecular Structure and Function - Beyond the Genetic Code", featuring Nikolina Sekulic (UiO), Stephen Cusack (EMBL) and Wei Yang (NIH) as speakers.
MD Bishwajit Bhowmik at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Diabetes and its Association with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors – Identification of High-risk Individuals in a Rural Bangladeshi Population” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Prof. Barbara Osimani is Director of the Center for Philosophy, Science, and Policy and Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Polytechnic University of the Marche, Italy. She has been recently heading an ERC project, which also ran at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU: "Philosophy of Pharmacology: Safety, Statistical Standards, and Evidence Amalgamation" (GA StG 639276). She is an ordinary member of the Open Science Center at the LudwigMaximilians Universit?t, Munich, and Visiting Professor at the MCMP, LMU. Her current research interests are focused on philosophy of statistics and scientific inference in research contexts characterised by strategic behaviour. She is developing a "Formal Epistemology of Medicine", with the aim to analyse the complex interaction of methodological, social and regulatory as well as ethical dimensions in medicine. Her scientific interests include: the precautionary principle, evidence hierarchies, causality, and statistical inference in medicine. Her recent papers analyse issues around philosophy of evidence (reliability, bias, reproducibility, coherence) from a Bayesian perspective. Within her ERC Grant she developed a Bayesian framework for the integration of heterogenous items of evidence and higher order evidence for the purpose of causal assessment of drug-induced harm ("E-Synthesis"), in collaboration with Drug Agencies across Europe.
MD Andrea Lenartova at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Chronic lymphocytic leukemia in Norway 1953-2012 for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Ana M.T. Quiles-Jiménez at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Molecular mechanisms of atherosclerotic disease. Studies on the role of the DNA glycosylase NEIL3 and the epitranscriptome in the development of atherosclerosis for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Laura Bojarskaite at Deparment of Molecular Medicine will be defending the thesis “Roles of Astrocytes in Sleep and Brain Waste Clearance” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Jorunn Evandt at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Nighttime road traffic noise and associations with insomnia symptoms and use of sleep medication” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Anna Latysheva at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Diffusion and perfusion-weighted imaging in the structural and functional characterization of diffuse gliomas for differential diagnosis and treatment planning for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Tore Buer Christensen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Towards a more valid and useful system for diagnosing personality disorders - Evaluating impairment of personality functioning by the SCID-5-AMPD-I” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
?The Norwegian national commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (UNSCR 1325) will consider both the major achievements of the past two decades, and the challenges that lie ahead.
Welcome to HEI's heritage day 2020.
The event will be organized digitally, see separate registration.
MSc Sonja Helena Lagstr?m at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Characterisation of human papillomavirus genomic variation and chromosomal integration in cervical samples” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Na?d Mubalegh is a PhD student in Philosophy of Science (Biology) at the University of Lisbon and the University Paris 1 Sorbonne, and currently a guest researcher at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) at the University of Oslo. She investigates the relationship between economic theories and the development of evolutionary theory. She is interested, among others, in understanding how certain, often strictly defined, concepts of rationality have been transferred from economics to evolutionary biology. How has an utilitarian research method been so successful in describing and explaining evolutionary processes and biodiversity? What is left outside by such a perspective, and what happens when scientific models from biology influence economics in return?
Master Fareeha Shaikh at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Intergenerational association between birth weight and cardiovascular disease; a population-based study of offspring, their parents, aunts and uncles” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc Svein Are Sirirud Vatnehol at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The potential for MR-relaxometry to evaluate the uptake absorption of oxygen after per oral administration of oxygenated water” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MSc Beate Vestad at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis Gut microbiota, extracellular vesicles and comorbidities in HIV infection; Exploring the drivers of metabolic disease risk and microbe-host crosstalk for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Nina Julie Verket at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Quality of life assessment and screening tool development for endometriosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
How would a victory for Biden or Trump affect the relationship between Latin America and the US?
Cand.med. Christian Fougner at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis On the genetic determinants of cancer phenotypes for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Einar August H?gest?l at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis MRI and Other Biomarkers in Early MS for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).