Faculty of Medicine, UiO
Disputations
Upcoming and previous disputations at the Faculty of Medicine. The disputations and trial lecture will be published approximately two weeks before the disputations. Disputations from the Faculty of Medicine on Twitter
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Cand.med. Kristin Stensland Torgersen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Personality, depression and cardiovascular risk - shared genetic susceptibility and prognosis of coronary heart disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Anine Nordstrøm at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Injuries in junior and senior ice hockey: burden and potential risk factors” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
PhD candidate Ieva Rauluševičiūtė at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Computational Approaches to Exploring Transcription Factor-DNA Interactions: From Resource Development to Co-binding Prediction' for the degree of PhD.
MSc Anna Christina Garvert at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Space, time and objects in the retrosplenial cortex” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Ronald Ssenyonga, M.Sc., at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Improving the ability of Ugandan adolescents to think critically about health: A digital educational intervention to equip Ugandan adolescents with skills to assess claims about benefits and harms of health interventions and make informed health choices” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Doctoral candidate Ping-Han Hsieh at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Developing Computational Methods to Improve Gene Regulatory Network Inference for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
M.Sc. Dena Treider Alavi at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Body composition in colorectal cancer patients - Validation of methods, new approaches using artificial intelligence, and the effect of a one-year dietary intervention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Nicholas James Hagger-Vaughan at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Mechanisms and modulation of plateau potentials in the neocortex and hippocampus” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
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Mphil Christine Holst at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Digitally enabled health education to increase health knowledge in rural Tanzania - development and implementation, user perspectives and knowledge retention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master i klinisk sykepleie Camilla R. Tøvik Jørgensen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Short- and long-term outcomes after distal deep vein thrombosis and superficial vein thrombosis in the lower extremities - findings from the TROLL registry” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. Brian Christopher Gilmour at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “β2, or not β2: that is the question. Expanding the SH2D2A-interactome to adhesion & β-integrins using a combined bioinformatic & wet-lab approach” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Umair Majid at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Macrophage Dynamics in the Human Colon: Implications in Health and Cancer” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Tom Lian at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Quality Improvement in the Treatment of Hip Fractures” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Ingrid Egeland Christensen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Serious infections in patients with inflammatory joint diseases” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics María Martín Agudo at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Computational methods to interpret forensic DNA profiles from massively parallel sequencing data” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. in Chemistry Bård André Bendiksen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The structure-function relationship of the heart after adverse myocardial remodelling” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Ellen Molteberg at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Endocrine effects of modified Atkins diet in adult patients with drug-resistant epilepsy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Mee Kristine Aas-Eng at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Rectosigmoid endometriosis. Diagnostic tools – improving pre-operative information to women and the clinician” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
M.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics Maria Chernigovskaya at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Computational approaches for the analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires at the genomic and proteomic levels” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Christer Julseth Tønnesen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Minimally Invasive Procedures for Obesity - Studies of minimally invasive procedures for obesity treatment and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB)” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Ingjerd Skafle at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Social Media Shaping Perceptions of Autism: A Mixed Method Study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MD Anne Marie Hagem at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “A clinical Study of Corneal Collagen Cross-linking and its impact on corneal transplantation in Keratoconus” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
MPhil Frode Eick at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Documenting the undocumented – The use of maternity care and perinatal outcomes among undocumented migrants in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Maryan Mohamed Ali at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Prevention of graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplantation for adult hematological malignancy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Cand.med. Bjarte Tidemann Andersen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “The anatomy of the Middle Colic Artery and Inferior Mesenteric Artery with their branches in colorectal cancer surgery, clarified and illustrated with 3D CT reconstructions and 3D-printed physical models” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).