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Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO

Associated investigators

Associated investigators Roger Strand, Inge Jonassen, Jan Erik Askildsen, John Cairns, Ole-Frithjof Norheim, Line Bjørge and Emmet McCormack, and junior investigators Daniela Elena Costea, Camilla Krakstad and Elisabeth Wik.

Updated: 09.05.2017 (First published: 23.04.2014)
Portrait of Roger Strand.

Integrating ELSA into CCBIO

CCBIO’s ELSA team is a dedicated research group on the ethical, legal and social aspects of cancer biomarkers. The group’s model is that of “integrated ELSA”, namely to build ELSA awareness and capacity throughout the CCBIO by interaction both in the scientific venues and the governance bodies of...

Portrait of Inge Jonassen

Bioinformatics

Professor Inge Jonassen and part of his team from the CBU (Computational Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Informatics, UiB) are working on the development and application of bioinformatics methods for analysing data descending from high-throughput measurement technologies applied to cancer samples.

Portrait of Askildsen and Cairns

Health Economics

Health economics at CCBIO is concerned with two major research problems: what is the cost-effectiveness of biomarkers, and how does the interplay between the diagnostic market and the pharmaceutical market affect incentives to invest in R&D for cancer biomarkers, termed the industrial...

Ole Frithjof Norheim standing, holding a painting.

Global Health Priorities - Ole-Frithjof Norheim

Global Health Priorities is an interdisciplinary research group situated at the Department of Global Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen. The group consists of a team of cross-disciplinary researchers and professionals dedicated to study the ethics and economics of priority setting...

Photo of Line Bjørge in the rain with an umbrella.

Line Bjørge

Professor Line Bjørge is currently head of the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at the Women’s Clinic, Haukeland University Hospital, a European Training Center in Gynecological Oncology and professor at the University of Bergen.

Portrait of Emmet McCormack

Emmet McCormack

Professor Emmet McCormack is PI of the research group Translational Molecular Imaging in Cancer. His main motivation is the development and effective translation of novel therapies and imaging strategies for the treatment of cancer, particularly cancers with limited therapeutic options.

Portrait of Daniela Costea

Daniela Elena Costea

Professor Daniela Elena Costea and her team are focusing on characterizing the interactions between epithelial (stem) cells and their microenvironment in normal conditions and during carcinogenesis.

Camilla Krakstad

Camilla Krakstad

Professor Camilla Krakstad has her background from research on signal transduction, and during her PhD she studied cAMP signaling in apoptotic cell death in both normal and cancer cells.

Elisabeth Wik

Elisabeth Wik

Postdoc Elisabeth Wik has been a member of the Tumor Biology Research Group (directed by Akslen) since 2013, in combination with a position as resident at the Department of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital.