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Master Suitbert Emil Lyakurwa at the Department of Education  defends his doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Universal design for learning towards achieving inclusive higher education in Tanzania.

Cand.med. Liv Hesstvedt at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis "Aspects of candidemia in Norway and in the Nordic countries: A contribution to the understanding of epidemiology, clinical aspects and outcome in patients with candidemia" for the degree of PhD

Cand.med. Grunde Wibetoe at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Cardiovascular disease risk in inflammatory joint disease: Conventional disease risk factors across inflammatory joint diseases and performance of risk age models in rheumatoid arthritis” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

M.Sc. Ane Sørlie Kværner at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Nutritional status, type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer - Biological links and methodological aspects” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Tonje Stenseth at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research defends her doctoral dissertation for the degree of PhD:

How and what students read: A study of evaluation and document selection processess in task-oriented reading.

Master Ingrid Nyborg at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “User participation among older hospitalized people and their relatives; a qualitative case‐oriented study” for the degree of PhD.

MSc Georgina Askeland at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Improving prospects for Huntington’s disease treatment: a focus on peripheral tissues and a transgenic minipig model” for the degree of PhD.

MD Elin Wahl Blakstad at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Growth, neurodevelopment, metabolic markers and intestinal microbiota in very low birth weight infants on enhanced nutrient supply” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Cand.med. Johanne Dypvik at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Diabetes, preeclampsia and infant death – The associations with placental weight”for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

MD Cathrine Aga at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis "The effect of an Anatomic Double-bundle surgical technique on the outcome of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions" for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

M.Phil. Marc Kevin McGowan at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Drug-Resistance and Protective Factors in NSCLC” for the degree of PhD.

M.Phil. Gudrun Maria Waaler Bjørnelv at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis Health Care Utilization, Costs and Benefits of Treatments in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer for the degree of PhD.

Cand.med. Siri Bjorland at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Genetic variability and persistent low back and lumbar radicular pain” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Cand.med. Anette Fjeldstad at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis "The role of treatment duration in psychodynamic group therapy. A randomized clinical trial of short-term and long-term Group Analytic Psychotherapy" for the degree of PhD.

MPhil Søren Toksvig Klitkou at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis "Essays on socioeconomic health inequalities within a setting of specialist health care" for the degree of PhD.

M.Sc. Meseret Habtamu Mekonnen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis Intracellular Signaling and T cell-Antigen Presenting Cell Interactions in Human Tuberculosis for the degree of PhD.

Cand.med. Kjersti Kaul Jenssen at the Institute of clinical medicine will be defending the thesis “Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair in the shoulder. Clinical outcomes and radiological results: Prognostic factors, postoperative rehabilitation and treatment of acute postoperative infection” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

M.Phil. Camilla Beck Olsen at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis "The Impact of Financial Incentives on Demand and Supply of Health Care Services in Norway: Empirical Studies on co-payments and activity-based hospital financing" for the degree of PhD.

MD Adrian Razvan Pasareanu at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Inpatient treatment for patients with substance use disorders: outcomes at 6 months follow-up for both voluntarily and compulsorily admitted patients” for the degree of PhD.

Cand.med. Håvard Furunes at the Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Long-term clinical and radiological results in patients with chronic low back pain and degenerative disc randomised to total disc replacement or multidisciplinary rehabilitation” for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (PhD).

MD Ane Gerda Zahl Eriksson at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Sentinel lymph nodes in endometrial carcinoma -Mapping, diagnostic accuracy and oncologic outcome” for the degree of Dr. Philos.

Cand.san. Brith Andresen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation impact on clinical outcome, patients self-reported health, psychosocial function, and hospital costs in patients with congenital heart disease” for the degree of PhD.

MPhil Hans Christian Dalsbotten Aass at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis "Procoagulant and inflammatory activities of monocytes and monocytederived microvesicles in experimental meningococcal disease" for the degree of PhD.

Cand.med. Mikkel Torp Steinberg at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis "The impact of chest compressions on defibrillation success during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and haemodynamics in an experimental animal model" for the degree of PhD.