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Ragnhild A. Lothe honoured by the Porto City Council

With the nominators: Professors Manuel Sobrinho-Simoes, Manuel R. Teixeira, and Leonor David after the ceremony
With the nominators: Professors Manuel Sobrinho-Simoes, Manuel R. Teixeira, and Leonor David after the ceremony

The Porto Municipal Medals ceremony for 2024 was held on July 9th, recognising several individuals and institutions for their distinguished merits and civic achievements. Among the recipients of the Medal of Merit - Gold grade, was Professor Ragnhild A. Lothe from the Norwegian Radiumhospital - Institute for Cancer Research. Professor Lothe has played pivotal role in over 30 years of collaboration with scientists and clinicians at medical institutions in Porto, including IPATIMUP, the Portuguese Oncology Institute, and the University of Porto. This collaboration has resulted in numerous joint scientific papers, PhD degrees, innovation projects, and exchanges of scientific and technological expertise.

The Mayor, Rui Moreira, and the President of the Minicipal Assembly, Sebestião de Azevedo, presented the medal in the presence of the municipal executive council.

Three Master's students defended their theses in May/June

Arina Surko, Ida Sophie Gjøstøl Strømsvåg and Joachim Jordal Moe
Arina Surko, Ida Sophie Gjøstøl Strømsvåg and Joachim Jordal Moe

Congratulations to Arina Surko, Ida Sophie Gjøstøl Strømsvåg and Joachim Jordal Moe, on successfully defending their Master's theses. Their projects were carried out at the Department of Molecular Oncology, and they attended the Master's programs at the Department of Biosciences or the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo.

Anita Sveen’s project group publish in Nature Communications

The Computational Oncology project group, led by Anita Sveen, has in collaboration with additional members of the Lothe group and clinical partners at OUH published a study on transcriptomic tumor heterogeneity of colorectal cancers.
Gene expression analysis of approximately 1,100 samples from primary tumors and liver metastases of 700 patients treated at OUH was used to define patterns of heterogeneous and uniform expression across tumor regions.

“Young Scientist Award” to Heidi Pharo for best poster presentation at the NextGen Omics 2023 Conference in London

Heidi Pharo attended the NextGen Omics 2023 Conference in London the 9th – 10th of November and presented a poster about the bladder cancer research in the Lind lab, including a national multicenter clinical trial using the BladMetrix urine test for detecting recurrences. The poster received great attention, and was one of three posters achieving the Young Scientist Award (YSA) for best poster presentation. The three winners each received a £1000 travel grant, the Oxford Globals’ Omics PLUS Pass, a trophy and the opportunity to provide a 10 minutes oral presentation at the conference the following day.

OUS Researcher Awards 2023 Excellent researcher awards to Halvorsen, Kryeziu and Skjerven

From left: Kryeziu, Halvorsen and Skjerven
From left: Kryeziu, Halvorsen and Skjerven

Three Oslo University Hospital scientists received prestigous awards for their outstanding research on Friday June 9th.
The major prize - the "Excellent Researcher Award" - went to Bente Halvorsen. Kushtrim Kryeziu and Håvard O. Skjerven both received the "Early Career Award".
The prize money - 300.000 and 150.000 NOK respectively - is earmarked for research activities.

The awards are distributed anually in order to honour excellent scientific work. The awarding process is organized by the hospital's research committee, while an external Scientific Advisory Board has evaluated the candidates. 

PhD defences on transcriptomics of colorectal cancer and molecular pathology of prostate cancer

Over the past week, two PhD candidates from the Department of Molecular Oncology successfully defended their theses at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.

On June 2nd, M.D. Mari Bogaard presented her PhD thesis titled "On the hunt for improved biomarkers in primary prostate cancer – combining morphological features and molecular changes".

One week earlier, on May 26th, M.Sc. S. Hossein Moosavi defended his thesis on the "Clinical implications of transcriptomic and pharmacological tumor heterogeneity of metastatic colorectal cancers".

Researcher-of-the-year 2022 at the Institute for Cancer Research: Kushtrim Kryeziu

Kushtrim Kryeziu
Kushtrim Kryeziu

Kushtrim Kryeziu is 37 years and defended his PhD at the Medical University of Vienna in 2016. Kryeziu was recruited to the Lothe lab in 2016 via an EU financed fellowship and was included in the Scientia Fellows postdoc program at the University of Oslo. His recruitment has proven highly beneficial for the development of the current project on functional oncology in advanced solid tumors. His competence in molecular cell biology and hands-on experience with anti-cancer drug development was instrumental to the development of our pre-clinical pharmacogenomics platform. Kryeziu has recently accepted a permanent position at the Institute for Cancer Research. 

Four PhDs defended in 2022 from members of Molecular Oncology

Ina A. Eilertsen and Christian Holst Bergsland defended their respective work in transcriptomics and molecular pathology of colorectal cancer, Maren Høland recently defended her work on genomics of Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and Jonas Meier Strømme defended his computational analyses in solid tumors last week, 9th Dec. Their PhD theses comprise a total of thirteen papers from our groups, including eleven first-authorships among the PhD candidates.

Pharmacogenomics to improve transplantation oncology of metastatic colorectal cancer

Anita Sveen and Pål-Dag Line
Anita Sveen and Pål-Dag Line

Molecular biologist Anita Sveen and surgeon Pål-Dag Line join forces in a new project to improve the patient benefit from liver transplantation of metastatic colorectal cancer. This is a collaborative effort between Dept Molecular Oncology (KRE) and Dept Transplantation Medicine (KIT)

The project is a translational substudy of ongoing clinical studies and will generate the first large-scale molecular and pharmacological data of transplantable metastatic colorectal cancers. This project was recently supported by a research grant from the Norwegian Cancer Society.

Anita Sveen invited speaker at AACR special conference on colorectal cancer

Anita Sveen
Anita Sveen

Anita Sveen, project group leader and member of the Lothe lab at the Department of Molecular Oncology at the Institute for Cancer research, was invited speaker at the AACR special conference colorectal cancer, held October 1-4th in Portland, Oregon, USA.
In her well received speech Dr. Sveen presented the multidisciplinary work from the TEAM-ACT (Tumor Evolution in Advanced Models to Accelerate precision Cancer Therapy) - a strategic research area of OUS. 

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