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Cand.med. Kristin Angel ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Anti-inflammatory therapy and cardiovascular disease in inflammatory arthropathies. Effects of TNF-α antagonists on vascular function and structure.

Cand.med. Conrad Arnfinn Bjørshol ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Optimising basic skills in adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Cand.med. Martin Steen Tesli ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Susceptibility genes for bipolar disorder, with focus on pleiotropy and amygdala activity.

M.phil. T. M. Sampath U. B. Tennakoon  ved Institutt for helse og samfunn vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Cardiovascular risk factors and predicted risk of cardiovascular disease among Sri Lankans living in Kandy, Sri Lanka and Oslo, Norway

Kandidat i sykepleievitenskap Heidi Andersen Zangi ved Institutt for medisinske basalfag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor):  Vitality Training - a group-based intervention for persons with rheumatic diseases. Experiences, methodological aspects and clinical effects.

Fagområde: Molekylær genetikk

M.Sc. Nina Elisabeth Landvik ved Institutt for medisinske basalfag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): The role of interleukin-1 beta gene in lung cancer.

M.phil. Penjani Rhoda Kamudoni ved Institutt for helse og samfunn vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Exclusive Breastfeeding: Correlates of, and associations with infant nutritional status in a rural and a semi-urban community in Malawi.

MPhil Ursula-Georgine Småland Goth ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Immigrants' use of the General Practitioner Scheme - a mixed method study analyzing choice of primary health care facilities in acute but not lifethreatening medical situations

Cand.med. Inger-Lise Mero ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Studies of genetic risk factors for multiple sclerosis. Finemapping, replication and genetic association to clinical phenotype.

Master of Arts (ESST) Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren ved Institutt for helse og samfunn vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Identifying barriers and facilitators to people's ability to obtain health information, and the development and evaluation of an intervention to improve health literacy.

Cand.med. Elisabeth Haug ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Anomalous Self-Experience in Schizophrenia: associations with diagnosis, suicidality and neurocognition.

Cand.pharm. Lise Román Moltzau ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Effects of natriuretic peptides on contractility and cGMP-compartmentation in failing rat myocardium.

MD Irina Pavlik Marangos ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Minimally invasive surgery in abdominal endocrine organs.

M.Sc. Marianne Molin ved Institutt for medisinske basalfag vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d (Philosophiae doctor):“Seafood arsenic in a human safety perspective.Results from a randomized controlled diet study”