On November 7, 2025, FIFF Day took place at UNN Tromsø, Breivika. FIFF stands for Improvement, Innovation, Academia, and Research. The day featured various stands and an exciting, diverse program with speakers covering topics ranging from mental health to artificial intelligence, fertility, and international collaboration.
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20.11.2025:
FIFF 2025
FIFF 2025
On November 7, 2025, FIFF Day took place at UNN Tromsø, Breivika. FIFF stands for Improvement, Innovation, Academia, and Research. The day featured various stands and an exciting, diverse program with speakers covering topics ranging from mental health to artificial intelligence, fertility, and international collaboration.
Mona Nystad, a member of the research group, delivered an engaging lecture on "Spermotile - the future of artificial fertilization," while Nora Hersoug Nedberg, Maren Johnsen and Svante Lisesønn Haugli staffed the research group's stand with posters and a quiz. They reported an engaging atmosphere and good attendance around the stand. A popular attraction was the quiz prize—a beautiful example of a "placenta cake."
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09.09.2025:
PhD Defense in Health Sciences
On September 4th, 2025, Nedberg successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled:
Platelets and Placenta - the New Hotspot of Fetomaternal Crosstalk
Unveiling Placental Implications of Human Platelet Antigen Alloimmunization
PhD Defense in Health Sciences
On September 4th, 2025, Nedberg successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled:
Platelets and Placenta - the New Hotspot of Fetomaternal Crosstalk
Unveiling Placental Implications of Human Platelet Antigen Alloimmunization
On September 4th, 2025, Nedberg successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled:
Platelets and Placenta - the New Hotspot of Fetomaternal Crosstalk
Unveiling Placental Implications of Human Platelet Antigen Alloimmunization
As part of the defense, she delivered a trial lecture on the topic:
Rhesus alloimmunization in pregnancy – diagnostics and treatment in the past, present and future
The thesis is available here: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/37979
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03.06.2025:
The Scandinavian Pain Society's Annual Conference
PhD student Kristine Amundsen participated in the Scandinavian Pain Society's annual conference in Iceland with an abstract/poster titled "Prevalence of non-menstrual Chronic Pelvic Pain in a Norwegian general population.
25.10.2024:
ESPGI conference in Ede, Netherlands
Members of the Women's Health and Perinatology research group were well represented at The European Symposium on Platelet and Granolocyte (ESPGI) conference that was recently hosted in Ede, Netherlands (27-29th of September).
02.10.2024:
New publication from the research group on chronic pelvic pain
Discovering the true nature of chronic pelvic pain: Are we asking the right questions?
08.12.2023:
Chronic pelvic pain kick-off meeting
Chronic pelvic pain - replacing ignorance with competence. A population-based joint venture study on scope, diagnostics and burden
Chronic pelvic pain kick-off meeting
Chronic pelvic pain - replacing ignorance with competence. A population-based joint venture study on scope, diagnostics and burden
On November 3rd 2023, the NFR-funded collaborating group project “Chronic pelvic pain - replacing ignorance with competence. A population-based joint venture study on scope, diagnostics and burden” held its kick off meeting in beautiful surroundings in Ersfjorden, just outside Tromsø. The day was filled with information about the various sub-projects and an update on the Norwegian Women's Sanitation Associations activities. One of the user representatives shared her moving story about the impact living with long-term pelvic pain has had on quality of life. This project join interdisciplinary user and research interests, and through various sub-projects the project aim at closing some of the knowledge gaps that exist in the field of long-term pelvic pain.
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02.05.2023: