Dr. Frode S. Berven (Ph.D.) is the head of the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen.

Berven completed his Masters degree at Department of Molecular Biologi, UiB, Ph.D. in bioinformatics at the Department of Informatics, UiB, and post doctor at the Institute of Medicine, UiB, and at the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

He is working in the field of mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics with emphaisis on biomarker disocovery and verification in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis.