OUH - Education/Early career

(candidate, tentative project titles, supervisors)

Lars Mørland Knudsen. Identification and functional characterization of E3 ubiquitin ligases involved in cancer pathogenesis. Supervisor: Edward Leithe; co-supervisors: Ragnhild A. Lothe, Jarle Bruun
Jonas Langerud. Intra-tumor heterogeneity and clinical genomics of colorectal cancer. Supervisor: Anita Sveen; co-supervisor: Ragnhild A. Lothe
Ingrid Vikan Sjurgard. Molecular- and immuno- profiling of esophageal adenocarcinoma. Supervisor: Guro E. Lind; co-supervisor: Tom Mala
Jakob Mørkved Stenersen. E3 ubiquitin ligases as prognostic and predictive biomarkers in colorectal cancer. Supervisor: Edward Leithe; co-supervisors: Kushtrim Kryeziu and Anita Sveen
Ida Sophie Gjøstøl Strømsvåg. Improving the activity of PARP inhibitors against colorectal cancer
Supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu; co-supervisors: Anita Sveen, Ragnhild A. Lothe
Solveig Margrete Knoph Klokkerud.
Supervisor: Anita Sveen

Helene Rønningen. Prostate cancer classification genes: Validation of prognostic value and unlocking new pre-diagnostic application from needle biopsies. Supervisor: Rolf I. Skotheim; co-supervisor: Susanne G. Kidd
Kristofer Kvarstein. Prognostic markers in spatial transcriptomics: Predicting post-surgical relapse in localised prostate cancer. Supervisor: Morten Beck Rye; co-supervisors: Rolf I. Skotheim and Bjarne Johannessen
Naser Abdelmaguid. Differential gene expression analyses from multisample cancer data: Utilising existing and developing new machine learning strategies. Supervisor: Rolf I. Skotheim; co-supervisor: Bjarne Johannessen
Dina Glømmi Bergmann. Restoring intercellular communication via gap junctions as a mechanism to increase the sensitivity of cervical cancer cells to cisplatin. Supervisor: Edward Leithe; co-supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu
Nora Skjerven Strømnes. Targeting drug resistance of BRAF-mutated colorectal cancer with novel combination therapies. Supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu; co-supervisor: Edward Leithe
Anna Grønning. Role of the NEDD4 family of E3 ubiquitin ligases in mediating the loss of Cx43-based gap junctions in cervical cancer cells and its implications for drug resistance. Supervisor: Edward Leithe; co-supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu