Research schools

At the Faculty

Translational Cancer Research School

The Research School for Translational Cancer Research opened its activities in 2005, and is administrated from the Department of Biomedicine. The Research School is established for the doctoral candidates within cancer research.

The main goals of the Research School are:

• To strengthen the education within the field of translational cancer research.
• To increase the scientific co-operation between research groups within basal, paraclinical and clinical cancer research.
• To give new insight in mechanisms which influence tumor progression.
• To find and validate new targets for therapy.

The Director of the Research School is Professor Rolf Bjerkvig. An Advisory Committee has also been appointed, consisting of representatives from clinical and basal cancer research.

Other research schools at the faculty

Overview.

Interfaculty

International Graduate School in Integrated Neuroscience (IGSIN)

IGSIN focuses on integrated (translational) neuroscience drawing on expertise in cognitive and basic neuroscience, as well as clinical applications related to mental health problems. The school is a collaboration between the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the Faculty of Psychology. IGSIN crosses faculty borders and thus also bridges basic to cognitive to clinical neuroscience.

Molecular and Computational Biology Research School (MCB)

The ambition of the Molecular and Computational Biology Research School (MCB) is to create an attractive and stimulating training environment for PhD students in molecular and computational biology, both to better serve the needs for relevant training in the field, and to stimulate crossdiscipline developments in the research of the parties.

National

National graduate school in structural biology (BioStruct)

BioStruct is established as an arena for promoting structural biology in Norway and to provide expertice and tools for the research education in the field. Five Norwegian universities constitute the BioStruct consortium.

Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging

The Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging has been established to strengthen PhD training in the field of medical imaging in Norway. Drawing on the strengths of the four participating institutions, the aim is to facilitate research training of wider scope and depth than the individual partners can offer. The multidisciplinary approach is illustrated by the range of relevant fields: ultrasound, MRI, PET, image guided surgery, biomedical optics and bionanotechnology.