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Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) is a Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. 

The center is working on new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy, and has particular focus on mechanisms that show how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in the tumors, and what significance this has for cancer proliferation and poor prognosis. See the 1 minute video CCBIO in a Nutshell. Centre Director is Lars A. Akslen, Department of Clinical Medicine. Read about our research and activities in the CCBIO Annual Report.

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CCBIO's principal investigators:

CCBIO Research School / Neuro-SysMed Research School
Doctor discussing with a patient.
May 07

CCBIONeur910: Patient and Public Involvement in Medical and Health Research, 2025

The course aims to inspire increased user participation in research trials and will present methods on how to involve user representatives. This is highly relevant to all biomedical research fields, and Patient and Public Involvement is documented to positively impact the relevance and efficacy in...

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Portrait photo of Line Bjørge.

The Trond Mohn Research Foundation supports ovarian cancer project

CCBIO's Co-Director Line Bjørge receives support for her group's project "Rethinking Ovarian Cancer: Developing Diagnostic and Functional Tools and Designing Innovative Multimodal Treatment Strategies."

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Lars and Heidrun together in the lab.

What happens when tumors get nervous?

12 mill NOK was today (Dec. 20, 2024) awarded to Lars A. Akslen and Heidrun Vethe from the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO) on the project "When breast cancer hits a nerve - neural involvement as a hallmark of tumor progression."

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Collage of portrait photos of Strell, Gjertsen and Gullberg.

Support from The Norwegian Cancer Society to three of CCBIO's projects

The Norwegian Cancer Society has recently allocated their 2024 grants to current cancer research projects. Eight researchers from Bergen made the final cut, including three from CCBIO.

International exchange
Collage of Tessa in Boston, standing in front of Harvard Medical School, working in the lab with a microscope, being in the library, and seeing Boston skyline.

3-month visit in Boston

This year, one of CCBIO's students got the opportunity to have a 3-month research stay in Boston, due to CCBIO's INTPART collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. PhD Candidate Tessa Lohr reports of a great experience, highly recommending it to other young researchers.

Shortcuts: Read CCBIO's Annual Reports and the CCBIO Newsletter

CCBIO is established in 2013 by the Research Council of Norway in collaboration with the University of Bergen. Other important sources of financial support are Helse Vest and the Norwegian Cancer Society. CCBIO is part of the Research Council of Norway's Centres of Excellence (CoE) scheme. The scheme organizes the activities of Norway’s foremost scientific circles in centres to achieve ambitious scientific objectives through collaboration and long-term basic funding.