News archive for Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO

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.

Pills against cancer (10.02.2015)

Medication that inhibit AXL effect is developed as pills and now in clinical trials.

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.

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.

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.

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.