Scientific accomplishments
Early Career Award 2017
Prize on outstanding original article 2016
Mette Vesterhus Johannes Roksund Hov
We congratulate Mette Vesterhus and Johannes Roksund Hov on the Oslo University Hospital’s prize on outstanding original article they won with:
Enhanced liver fibrosis score predicts transplant-free survival in primary sclerosing cholangitis (published in Hepatology)
The authors of the article are: Mette Vesterhus, Johannes Roksund Hov, Anders Holm, Erik Schrumpf, Ståle Nygård, Kristin Godang, Ina Marie Andersen, Sigrid Næss, Douglas Thorburn, Francesca Saffioti, Morten Vatn, Odd Helge Gilja, Fridtjof Lund-Johansen, Trygve Syversveen, Knut Brabrand, Albert Parés, Cyriel Y. Ponsioen, Massimo Pinzani, Martti Färkkilä, Bjørn Moum, Thor Ueland, Helge Røsjø, William Rosenberg, Kirsten Muri Boberg, and Tom H. Karlsen
All award winning articles were published in the second half of 2015. The awards are of NOK 50.000,- and are earmarked for further research activities.
To make research a visible part of Oslo University Hospital (OUS)’s activities and to inspire all employees to publish their scientific findings OUS has established this tradition to award the authors of the best publications in every sixth month.
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Johannes R. Hov (number three from the left) with the diploma he won together with Mette Vesterhus (Photo: Børge Einrem, OUS) |
Early Career Award 2016

The gut microbiota of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) has low diversity and is highly different from both healthy individuals and inflammatory bowel disease patients without PSC, according to a study by Martin Kummen and co-workers, which is now published online in the prestigious journal Gut (journal impact factor 14.66).
The study represents a milestone at Norwegian PSC Research Center, being the first entirely based on in-house methodology, and also providing an important starting point for studies on the clinical application of gut microbiota in this disease.