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12 mill NOK was today (Dec. 20, 2024) awarded to Lars A. Akslen and Heidrun Vethe from the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO) on the project "When breast cancer hits a nerve - neural involvement as a hallmark of tumor progression."
CCBIO has a tradition of using the December meeting in its seminar series to add a different perspective and encourage our research environment to think outside of the box. This December, we had the pleasure of welcoming back Fran Balkwill, who has a unique experience in addition to her cancer research career.
The result of years of collaboration between CCBIO PI Jim Lorens and Rolf Brekken and other colleagues in the USA, Finland, Romania and Norway, is now published in Science Signaling, with research identifying nuclear AKT3 as a new biomarker of advanced malignancy and revealing the pathway that activates AKT3 to drive epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer.
CCBIO recently held its signature course Methods in Cancer Biomarker Research (CCBIO905), September 25-27, 2024, at Haukeland University Hospital, providing the attending students with a full panel of standard and advanced methods with relevance for cancer biomarker research.
This year, one of CCBIO's students got the opportunity to have a 3-month research stay in Boston, due to CCBIO's INTPART collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. PhD Candidate Tessa Lohr reports of a great experience, highly recommending it to other young researchers.
This meeting at Solstrand August 28–31, 2024 was the 2nd Research Meeting in the INTPART collaboration between CCBIO and the Vascular Biology Program (VBP), Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the first being the Iceland meeting in 2019. In 2019, 48 participants met in Iceland, and this year, 57 gathered at Solstrand.
The Norwegian Cancer Society has recently allocated their 2024 grants to current cancer research projects. Eight researchers from Bergen made the final cut, including three from CCBIO.
Kari Strøno Wagner-Larsen defended November 15, 2024 her doctoral work at the University of Bergen with the thesis "Advanced MRI for developing more personalized treatment strategies in uterine cervical cancer". Wagner-Larsen's doctoral work includes four studies showing that traditional as well as advanced, computer-assisted MRI analyses (radiomics) improve the risk assessment of patients with... Read more
Sturla Magnus Grøndal completed his PhD October 14, 2024 at the University of Bergen with his doctoral work "Mechanisms of Immune Dysregulation through AXL Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling in Cancer and Fibrotic Diseases".
Hilde Eide Lien completed September 13, 2024 her PhD at the University of Bergen with her doctoral work "Single cell expression patterns in endometrial cancer and novel biomarkers for improved treatment".
Austin James Rayford completed October 11, 2024 his PhD degree at the University in Bergen with his thesis "Studies on the effect of AXL inhibition in non-small cell lung cancer".
Karen Rosnes Gissum defended June 28, 2024 her PhD thesis "Unveiling the Complexities: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Understanding and Managing Ovarian Cancer" at the University of Bergen. This is a unique CCBIO doctorate work focusing on the patient and healthcare worker perspective and not the actual research. Nevertheless, objective measures like biomarkers were seen as... Read more
In a new doctoral work at CCBIO, by Christiane Helgestad Gjerde, the group has established a 3D in vitro model of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma to assess the efficacy of traditional chemotherapy and novel cell-based immunotherapies. This model makes out a more realistic mini tumor, making it possible to test which therapy that works on this type of cancer. The knowledge provided from this... Read more
European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) has held its annual Gynaecological Cancers Congress this year in Florence, Italy, 20-22nd June, 2024.
The doctoral work of Ole Vidhammer Bjørnstad, which includes three coming scientific papers, has shed light on the occurrence of neural precursor cells in breast cancer, and the interactions between neural precursor cells and breast cancer cells.
Karen Rosnes Gissum June 28, 2024 defends her doctoral work at the University of Bergen with the thesis "Unveiling the Complexities: Patients’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Understanding and Managing Ovarian Cancer". The trial lecture is the same day.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters June 12th announced the 2024 Kavli Prize Laureates in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Among these are Robert S. Langer (USA), sharing the 2024 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Armand Paul Alivisatos (USA) and Chad A. Mirkin (USA).
Although patient involvement in research was not part of the program at the 12th CCBIO Annual Symposium, it is a topic CCBIO will give more attention to. We had a chat with a user representative who participated at the symposium, and who is also contributing in one of our research projects.
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