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As announced on our website In October, CAMRIA was engaged in organizing a panel discussion around the documentary “The Invisible Extinction”, showed at Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) 2023: https://camria.w.uib.no/2022/10/13/the-invisible-extintion-film-screening-and-following-panel-dicussion-at-biff/ Now the video recording from the event (in Norwegian) is available online: Panelsamtale BIFF 2022: The Invisible Extinction on Vimeo Watch it to learn more Read More

We have been awarded a grant from the call “Societal Security and Antimicrobial Resistance” from NordForsk (Nordic Societal Security Programme | NordForsk). The title of the project is: “Tracking of Antimicrobial Resistant Genes in Environmental reservoirs in the Nordic Countries” with the acronym TARGEt. Randi J Bertelsen is PI for the project and in collaboration Read More

Bergen International Film Festival 2022 is taking place on 19-27 October this year. One of the films that will be presented during the festival is “The invisible extinction” – a documentary looking into a potential future major health crisis connected to the extinction of bacterial diversity. Historically and biologically, healthy bacteria have been a foundation Read More

CAMRIA, represented by Nina Langeland (CAMRIA’s leader, University of Bergen), Iren Høyland (Stavanger University Hospital) and Stig Harthug (Haukeland University Hospital) joined the meeting of Nordic Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) centres organized by the Uppsala Antibiotic Center on 1-2 September 2022. In total, 7 centres participated in the meeting: Uppsala Antibiotic Centre (Sweden), Umeå Centre for Read More

For the first time, CAMRIA leadership, researchers engaged in the projects financed by the centre, along with invited guests gathered during a lunch-to-lunch working seminar in Bekkjarvik (August 23-24, 2022). The main objective of this event was twofold – to enable the participants, particularly those representing different fields, to get to know each other better, Read More

The long-awaited opening of the Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance in Western Norway (CAMRIA) took place on May 30, 2022 in Eitri Medical Incubator in Bergen. The event began with welcome from Nina Langeland, professor of clinical infectious diseases from the University of Bergen and CAMRIA leader. She emphasized how pressing the issue of antimicrobial resistance Read More

On May 30, 2022 the grand opening of the Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance in Western Norway (CAMRIA – Combatting Anti-Microbial Resistance with Interdisciplinary Approaches) will mark the official start of the centre’s research work. We are expecting an exciting event with many prominent speakers, including Norway’s Minister of Health and Care services – Ingvild Kjerkol, Read More