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Department of Biomedicine (IBM) at the University of Bergen was established in 2004 in connection with the merger of the three pre-clinical departments, the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Physiology. The Department is one of eight departments at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and - with its over 200 employees - one of the largest departments at the University of Bergen. Around 44 people are employed in permanent positions (professors and associate professors) in addition, about 60 PhD candidates and 25 post docs (figures from 2010) associated with the department. The Department is located in a well equipped research buildings, Building for Biological Sciences (BBB), close to the Haukeland University Hospital.

Department of Biomedicine (IBM) is one of the largest biomedical specialists and of considerable size in an international context. The Department's research is in basic and translational biomedical research with relevance to basic biological questions, a number of diseases and biomedical innovation.

Index of research activities are: biomedicine, translational research, cancer, neurobiology, physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, circulation, signal transduction, proteomics, imaging, MRI, and nanoscience.

The department contributes to the education of physicians, dentists, dental hygienists, pharmacists, and nutrition students, and master students in human physiology, medical cell biology, imaging (Biomedical Image Sciences) and nanoscience.