Ceremony on May 27th Oslo University Hospital has awarded 6 excellent articles for the second half-year of 2024

In order to stimulate excellent research and draw attention to the hospital's research activity, Oslo University Hospital rewards outstanding publications twice a year. Six research groups were awarded for their excellent papers published the second half-year of 2024 during a ceremony on May 27th. Each group received NOK 50.000 earmarked for further research, and the prize winners gave short presentations of their main findings.

The winners of this award have contributed new knowledge into the fields of tumor-infiltrating immune cells, AI-assisted prediction of immunotherapy effect, childhood diabetes data from international registries, new digital 3D tools for planning cardiac surgery in children, the relationship between drug use patterns and the long-term course of psychotic disorders, and the effect of medication-assisted rehabilitation on the incidence of overdose deaths after prison release.

"This year's winning articles illustrate in an excellent way that research at OUS contributes to the fact that new technological possibilities can improve clinical practice and that systematic use of quality registries can provide better treatment and reduce unnecessary suffering among patients", says research director Erlend Smeland, who gave out the awards during the ceremony.

The awards for outstanding research articles are distributed twice a year based on more than 2,400 scientific articles published annually by OUS. The division's research committees nominate the articles and an external committee evaluates and finally selects the six worthy winners.

The winning articles must have achieved international impact or have distinguished themselves in other ways. It is also required that the articles are of particularly high quality and communicate important findings.

News article (in Norwegian) including popular science summaries of the findings and the committee's statements:

Priser til fremragende forskningsartikler publisert høsten 2024 (www.oslo-universitetssykehus.no)

Equal winners - ward-winning articles, second half-year of 2024

Authors: Herman Netskar, Aline Pfefferle, Jodie P. Goodridge, Ebba Sohlberg, Olli Dufva, Sarah A. Teichmann, Demi Brownlie, Jakob Michaëlsson, Nicole Marquardt, Trevor Clancy, Amir Horowitz and Karl-Johan Malmberg

Article: Pan-cancer profiling of tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells through transcriptional reference mapping

Journal: Nature Immunology 2024; 25, 1445–1459

DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01884-z

Authors: Mehrdad Rakaee, Masoud Tafavvoghi, Biagio Ricciuti, Joao V. Alessi, Alessio Cortellini, Fabrizio Citarella, Lorenzo Nibid, Giuseppe Perrone, Elio Adib, Claudia A. M. Fulgenzi, Cassio Murilo Hidalgo Filho, Alessandro Di Federico, Falah Jabar, Sayed Hashemi, Ilias Houda, Elin Richardsen, Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund, Tom Donnem, Idris Bahce, David J. Pinato, Åslaug Helland, Lynette M. Sholl, Mark M. Awad and David J. Kwiatkowski

Article: Deep Learning Model for Predicting Immunotherapy Response in Advanced Non−Small Cell Lung Cancer

Journal: JAMA Oncology 2025; 11(2):109-118

DOI: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.5356

Authors: Anthony T. Zimmermann, Stefanie Lanzinger, Siv Janne Kummernes, Nicolai A. Lund-Blix, Reinhard W. Holl, Elke Fröhlich-Reiterer, David M. Maahs, Osagie Ebekozien, Saketh Rompicherla, Justin T. Warner, Saira Pons Perez, Holly Robinson, Maria E. Craig, Stephanie Johnson, Karin Akesson, Alexander Thorén, Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Ajenthen G. Ranjan, Mette Madsen, Michael Witsch, Heiko Bratke, G. Todd Alonso, Zdenek Sumnik, Vit Neuman, Ondrej Cinek, Torild Skrivarhaug and Jannet Svensson

Article: Treatment regimens and glycaemic outcomes in more than 100000 children with type 1 diabetes (2013–22): a longitudinal analysis of data from paediatric diabetes registries

Journal: The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2025; 13(1), 47-56

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(24)00279-1

Authors: Matthias Lippert, Karl-Andreas Dumont, Sigurd Birkeland, Varatharajan Nainamalai, Håvard Solvin, Kathrine Rydén Suther, Bjørn Bendz, Ole Jakob Elle and Henrik Brun

Article: Cardiac anatomic digital twins: findings from a single national centre

Journal: European Heart Journal – Digital Health 2024; 5(6), 725–734

DOI: doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztae070

Authors: Isabel Kreis, Trine Vik Lagerberg, Kristin Fjelnseth Wold, Gina Åsbø, Carmen Simonsen, Camilla Bärthel Flaaten, Magnus Johan Engen, Siv Hege Lyngstad, Line Hustad Widing, Torill Ueland and Ingrid Melle

Article: Behind the heterogeneity in the long-term course of first-episode psychosis: Different psychotic symptom trajectories are associated with different patterns of cannabis and stimulant use.

Journal: Schizophrenia Research 2024; 271, 91-99

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2024.07.006

Authors: Anne Bukten and Marianne Riksheim Stavseth

Article: Estimated effects of opioid agonist treatment in prison on all-cause mortality and overdose mortality in people released from prison in Norway: a prospective analysis of data from the Norwegian Prison Release Study (nPRIS)

Journal: The Lancet Public Health 2024; 9(7), e421-e431

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00098-7