Department Head: Professor Gunhild M. Mælandsmo, PhD

Vision: To Improve Treatment of Locally Advanced and Metastatic Cancer .

Aims and strategy:

Through basic and translational research in tumor biology and computational science, we aim to improve the molecular understanding of cancer and to identify novel intervention strategies. We base our research on specific clinical needs and knowledge gaps, facilitated by the multidisciplinary interactions between basic researchers and clinicians in shared positions. The goal is to translate our research findings into clinical practice.

Goal: Our goal is to identify candidate biomarkers and therapeutic targets, followed by validation in preclinical models and further translation to clinical trials.

Cultural values: We encourage a culture in the department based on visionary thinking, collaboration, curiosity and quality.

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Department of Tumor Biology comprises four research groups headed by the following leaders:

Translational Cancer Therapy	Computational Cancer Genomics and Melanoma Systems Biology	Molecular Biology of Sarcomas
	Metastasis Biology and Experimental Therapeutics

Head of Department: Gunhild M. Mælandsmo, PhD
Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research
Oslo University Hospital Montebello, Box 4953 - Nydalen - 0424 Oslo, Norway
Telephone: (047) 22 78 18 79
Fax: (047) 22 78 18 95
Email: g.m.malandsmo@ous-research.no