Welcome to Department of Cancer Immunology

Department head: Professor Johanna Olweus
Deputy department head: Professor Karl-Johan Malmberg
Biomedical laboratory scientist/management: Kristina Ivanauskiene
Administrative consultant: Peter Wiedswang

“Our goal is to improve cancer diagnostics and therapy through cutting edge research on tumor immunology and lymphocyte biology”

The Department of Cancer Immunology (DCI) has six research groups. Among the PIs, four are full professors at UiO, one is visiting professor at Univ of Tunis, and one is also visiting professor at Karolinska Institute.

The research groups in the DCI are partners of the K.G. Jebsen Center for Cancer Immunotherapy (JCIT, Director: Olweus) and the KG Jebsen Centre for B Cell Malignancies. The DCI has a strong emphasis on translation and extensive involvement in clinical. The DCI counted 71 members in 2018.

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Our research groups

The group leaders are affiliated with the departments of Molecular Biosciences and Pharmacy at the University of Oslo, where they lecture at undergraduate and graduate courses. Supervision of graduate students and doctoral candidates takes place at the Department of Cancer Immunology. Several foreign research fellows and visiting scientists are also associated with the research teams.

Experimental immunotherapy

Johanna Olweus
Department head

Natural killer cell Biology and cell therapy

Karl-Johan Malmberg

Lymphoma biology group

June H. Myklebust

Immunomodulation and targeted therapies

Mouldy Sioud

Cell Signaling and Immune Regulation

Kjetil Taskén

Immunotherapy against solid cancers

Jon Amund Kyte

 

Contact information:

Department of Cancer Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research
Oslo University Hospital, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway
Phone: +47 22 78 13 23 (Dept. administration), +47 22 93 40 00 (switchboard),
Fax +47 22 78 13 24
Dept. administration: Kristina Ivanauskiene, email kristina.ivanauskiene@ous-research.no