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Rolf Bjerkvig

Professor
The Department of Biomedicine
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  • E-mailRolf.Bjerkvig@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 63 52+47 951 18 268
  • Visitor Address
    Jonas Lies vei 91
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

Rolf Bjerkvig (f. 1953) is Professor for cell biology and has since the ealy 80s worked in experimental cancer biology.

Bjerkvig is Director of the Brain Tumor Research Center, located at the Department of Biomedicine. He is director of the Oncology Department at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, and has established the NORLUX Neuro-Oncology network.

Dr Bjerkvig receives major grants from the Norwegian Research Council, The Norwegian Cancer Society and the European Commission. He is on the editorial board on several international journals and is sitting in several national as well as international funding committees for cancer research in Europe. He has published more than 200 articles in scientific literature and has received a number of research prizes for his work. In 2015, Bjerkvig was awarded the King Olav V Research Prize in Cancer Research.

OD1ANA - Anatomy

MEDOD1, MEDOD2

MEIBM900

FARM260 - Molecular cell biology

BMED330 - intercellular communication

BMED331 - tumor biology

  • 2020. Patient-derived organoids and orthotopic xenografts of primary and recurrent gliomas represent relevant patient avatars for precision oncology. Acta Neuropathologica. 1-31.
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  • 2019. Targeting APLN/APLNR improves antiangiogenic efficiency and blunts proinvasive side effects of VEGFA/VEGFR2 blockade in glioblastoma. Cancer Research. 2298-2313.
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  • 2019. Mutant IDH1 differently affects redox state and metabolism in glial cells of normal and tumor origin. Cancers. 1-20.
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  • 2019. Iterative Methods for Fast Reconstruction of Undersampled Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Data. International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering Proceedings. 267-271.
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  • 2019. Interfering with long non-coding RNA MIR22HG processing inhibits glioblastoma progression through suppression of Wnt/β-catenin signalling. Brain.
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  • 2019. Inhibition of mitochondrial respiration prevents BRAF-mutant melanoma brain metastasis. Acta neuropathologica communications. 1-19.
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  • 2019. Improved drug delivery to brain metastases by peptide-mediated permeabilization of the blood-brain barrier. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 2171-2181.
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  • 2019. Deep sequencing of a recurrent oligodendroglioma and the derived xenografts reveals new insights into the evolution of human oligodendroglioma and candidate driver genes. OncoTarget. 3641-3653.
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  • 2019. Deciphering the complex role of thrombospondin-1 in glioblastoma development. Nature Communications. 1-15.
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  • 2019. Bi-specific tenascin-C and fibronectin targeted peptide for solid tumor delivery. Biomaterials. 1-11.
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1987: Dr. philos. The Gade Institute of Pathology, University of Bergen
1981: M.Sc. Immunology, University of San Francisco, 1981.

Fields of competence 
Cancer research
Human physiology