2025

Kishor Subedi, a specialist candidate in orthodontics at the School of Dentistry, Kathmandu University, Nepal, recently completed a three-month exchange stay at the Institute of Oral Biology (IOB). The visit was part of activities funded by the EU Erasmus Global project (2024–2027) at the faculty, led by Professor Dipak Sapkota (IOB).

On October 24, 2025, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) hosted the symposium “Science, Trust, and Democracy: Communicating Health Challenges in a Polarized Era.” The event gathered experts, communicators, and policymakers from the USA, Ukraine, Spain, the EU, and Norway to explore how science communication can sustain trust and democratic resilience in an era of polarization.

Three postgraduate students in orthodontics from the University of Zurich recently visited the Faculty of Dentistry as part of an exchange program between Professor Theodore Eliades (Clinic of orthodontics and pediatric dentistry, Center for Dental Medicine, Zurich) and Professor Vaska Vandevska-Radunovic, Director of postgraduate studies in orthodontics at the Faculty of Dentistry.

At the end of June, the RESISFORCE network, led by Professor Fernanda Petersen and funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN), organized a symposium as part of the 103rd General Session of the IADR in Barcelona.

Kazi Shawrob has been awarded the NOF-IADR Hatton Award 2025 for his research presentation titled “Global Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae.” The award was presented this week during the IADR/PER General Session & Exhibition, currently taking place in Barcelona.

In collaboration with the University of Bergen, IOB successfully organized a workshop and hands-on training school on 3D Models of Oral Carcinogenesis in Norway. The workshop took place in Ustaoset from May 5th to 7th, attracting 14 participants, including PhD students and researchers from various European universities.

This week, we had the privilege of welcoming Professor Thomas E. Van Dyke to our faculty. He is a leading figure in periodontology and currently serves as Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, as well as Vice President of Clinical and Translational Research at the Forsyth Institute.

For the past two months, Luiza Bittencourt, a bachelor’s student from UNICAMP in Brazil, has been participating in a research project at the Faculty of Dentistry. Through the Resisforce project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) under the INTPART program and Brazilian FAPESP, she has been involved in an important topic: How chlorhexidine,  an antimicrobial agent widely used in dentistry can influence bacterial resistance development.

For years, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been used to combat recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections, with remarkable success. Could a similar approach work for the nasal cavity?