Home
University of Bergen
Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO

News archive for Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO

Jim Lorens receives the Best Research Group of the Year Award 2014 by Dean Nina Langeland.
Jim Lorens' group wins the faculty award Best Research Group of the Year 2014 (19.06.2015)
Jim Lorens' research group in Tumor Cell Plasticity was June 18th 2015 awarded with the Best Research Group of the Year 2014 by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen.
Lars Akslen and Marion Solheim speaking at a conference about communication.
Excellent communication at CCBIO (19.06.2015)
Centre Director Lars A. Akslen and Communications Adviser at CCBIO Marion Solheim were invited to the NUAS conference at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm to share how CCBIO communicate their research activities.
Professor Kerbel holding a lecture in an auditorium
Meeting with Professor Kerbel in Bergen (18.06.2015)
Robert Kerbel, a leading expert on angiogenesis and Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto, Senior Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (Toronto), and a Canada Research Chair in Tumor Biology and Angiogenesis, visited Bergen on June 11th. He gave a top lecture “Antiangiogenic Therapeutics in Oncology: Overview, Update, and Future Directions” at the joint... Read more
Professor Roger Strand i klasserommet
Challenging young researchers on life and death (26.05.2015)
A new course at the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers aims to support young cancer researchers to make good decisions in matters of life and death.
The participants at the Centre for Cancer Biomarker's third annual symposium at Solstrand, south of Bergen, in May 2015.
World leading cancer researchers met at Solstrand (22.05.2015)
Many of the world's top cancer researchers presented the latest in cancer research when the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers invited to a two-day symposium at Solstrand.
Roadsign Ethics in collage with biotehnology photo
UiB report on bioethics to be presented by the Council of Europe (28.04.2015)
The Council of Europe, with its 47 member states, has for years been involved in international efforts for human rights and bioethics. In particular, it is known for the so-called Oviedo Convention that outlines ethical principles for biomedicine.
Disputation from CCBIO - Katarzyna Wnuk-Lipinska (07.04.2015)
Katarzyna Wnuk-Lipinska defended April 7th her PhD thesis “The role of Axl signaling in phenotypic plasticity in normal and neoplastic epithelial cells” at the University of Bergen.
Portrait of Professor Arne Östman, combined with illustration of a dna string.
New professor II at CCBIO: Arne Östman (17.02.2015)
Professor Arne Östman from Karolinska Institutet is recruited in a 20% position as Adjunct Professor in Molecular Biology at CCBIO.
Disputation from CCBIO - Ida Wiig Sørensen (11.02.2015)
Ida Wiig Sørensen defended 12.02.15 her PhD thesis «Molecular Characterisation of Integrin a 11 Function» at the University of Bergen.
James Lorens og forskergruppen
Pills against cancer (10.02.2015)
Medication that inhibit AXL effect is developed as pills and now in clinical trials.
Prioriteringer
Lars Akslen at "Filosofisk Poliklinikk" (09.02.2015)
Filosofisk Poliklinikk - "The Philosophical Polyclinic" - a Norwegian think-tank for medical philosophy - featured CCBIO Director Lars Akslen in their public meeting in Bergen on the 4th February. The meeting was one of a series of four on challenges of health prioritization.
Professor Cairns pointing at the screen during teaching at CCBIO course CCBIO903.
Should medical science alone decide what is good for society? (27.01.2015)
The first week of the PhD course 'CCBIO903: Cancer research: Ethical, economic and social aspects' was held from the 19th to the 22nd January.
Bergen
The Marie Curie ITN Network Conference “Tumor stroma-friend or foe?” (16.12.2014)
October 22-23, 2015
2 business people shaking hands over a contract
CCBIO receives significant funding (15.12.2014)
The Helse Vest Strategic Program has granted 15 mill NOK to CCBIO in collaboration with Helse Bergen and Helse Stavanger for the project “Personalized cancer therapy – biomarkers in clinical trials” (2015-2019). CCBIO recently also received funding for several individual projects: two with funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) and three Helse Vest grants from Samarbeidsorganet.
The Justicia statue
CCBIO focuses on Ethics and Prioritization in new PhD course (14.11.2014)
The CCBIO Research School's new PhD course on the Ethical, Economic and Social Aspects of Cancer Research, CCBIO 903, is open for enlistment.
Gruppebilde av forskerne som fikk milliongaven fra Kreftforeningen 30.10.14, sammen med Anne Lise Ryel og Dag Rune Olsen, rektor ved UiB
'Research of the highest quality' (31.10.2014)
5 of CCBIO's Principal Investigators received recently 9 million NOK in total from the Norwegian Cancer Society.
EU flag and Norwegian flag together with cancer research microscope photo
CCBIO collaboration project achieved EU funding (31.10.2014)
The TRANSCAN program (European Research Area Network on Translational Cancer Research) has just announced their allocation of funding.
photo of Zena Werb
Professor Zena Werb from UCSF visits Bergen (07.10.2014)
Invited by Marion and Donald Gullberg, the renowned cancer researcher and science celebrity Zena Werb visited Bergen this week and held a combined BBB & CCBIO seminar on October 2, 2014.

Pages