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Collage of photos from CCBIO situations; research, teaching, symposia.

Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) is a Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. 

The center is working on new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy, and has particular focus on mechanisms that show how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in the tumors, and what significance this has for cancer proliferation and poor prognosis. Centre Director is Lars A. Akslen, Department of Clinical Medicine. Read about our research and activities in the CCBIO Annual Report.

Project managers
CCBIO's principal investigators:

annual meeting
Collage of photos from the CCBIO Annual Symposia, lots of people in different settings.
May 13

CCBIO's 7th Annual Symposium (2019)

The 7th CCBIO Annual Symposium will take place at Solstrand Hotel May 13-14 2019. Registration is now open.

Satellite symposium to the CCBIO Annual Symposium 2019
Solstrand
May 12

CCBIO Satellite Symposium on Deep Tissue Profiling

Welcome to a Satellite Symposium on the topic Deep Tissue Profiling which will take place 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. May 12th 2019 at Solstrand Hotel, the day before and at the same place as the CCBIO Annual Symposium 2019.

next generation immunohistochemistry
Scenes from the symposium. Lecturer and audience.

"Google map" for tumors

The University of Bergen has just implemented the Hyperion Imaging System, next generation immunohistochemistry where researchers can explore tissue biology with 35 antibodies simultaneously. This instrument is the only of its kind in Northern Europe, and is open for booking for all researchers on...

GLOBAL HEALTH PRIORITIES
Ole Frithjof Norheim

Millions to new centre for ethics and priority setting

The research group, Global Health Priorities, has become the research centre BCEPS, thanks to support from Bergen Research Foundation, NORAD, University of Bergen and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Open Access - Plan S
Open Access logo

Norwegian research communities join forces to change new Open Access plan

The Norwegian Research Council and other European research councils are about to make a radical alteration of the scientific publishing model by forcing Open Access for all scientific work. The scheme is called Plan S. 27 Norwegian research leaders, including CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen, suggest...

Shortcuts: Read CCBIO's Annual Reports and the CCBIO Newsletter

CCBIO is established in 2013 by the Research Council of Norway in collaboration with the University of Bergen. Other important sources of financial support are Helse Vest and the Norwegian Cancer Society. CCBIO is part of the Research Council of Norway's Centres of Excellence (CoE) scheme. The scheme organizes the activities of Norway’s foremost scientific circles in centres to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and long-term basic funding.