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Sunset view of the surroundings of Panorama Hotel at Sotra outside of Bergen.
Scandinavian Pathology Seminar on August 30-31 2016 (09.09.2016)
CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen and CCBIO affiliated Arne Östman from Karolinska Institutet initiated and chaired The First Scandinavian Seminar on Translational Pathology. Approximately 50 cancer researchers gathered in the wild west of Sotra at Panorama Hotel outside of Bergen.
Woman on the surgery table
Reconstructive surgery might speed up return of breast cancer (09.09.2016)
A new study suggests that reconstruction of breast affects recurrence of breast cancer, and actually reduce time to relapse of the disease. The study was recently presented as front page news in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, with main author Hanna Dillekås who is PhD candidate at Professor Oddbjørn Straumes group. Straume is CCBIO PI and also last author of the study.
Zebrafish tail photos from the experiment.
Repurposing drugs in the spotlight (06.09.2016)
A publication in PNAS by researchers from the Department of Clinical Science and CCBIO was selected to be highlighted in the Editors' Choice section of Science Signaling, the weekly journal from the publisher of Science magazine, and has been selected for an Editorial feature that will be published in the journal Cell Cycle.
Kryoimmunterapi-teamet i gang i operasjonssalen.
FORNY2020 funding to the BTO project CryoIT (29.06.2016)
The BTO project CryoIT has received 10 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway’s FORNY2020 program. The project develops a new form of immunotherapy against prostate cancer, called cryoimmunotherapy, which can also be adapted to treat different types of cancer. The project belongs to Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen.
Photo from the audience at the CCBIO Annual Symposium 2016, clearly with a good atmosphere as people are smiling.
Strategy meeting in the war against cancer (13.05.2016)
Outside the birds are twittering in the warm sun. Inside are cold facts on biomarkers and immuno therapy, including research which may lead to cancer testing through urine samples. CCBIO's Annual Symposium offers a widespread program.
Portrait of Henrica Werner
Oncology award to CCBIO postdoc (19.04.2016)
Henrica Werner received the 2015 Young Researcher Award from Onkologisk Forum. "The hope to give patients the for them correct treatment from the start, avoiding unnecessary side effects and ‘right-treatment delay’ in future through development of both prognostic and predictive biomarkers is what drives me", says the CCBIO postdoc and gynaecologist in an interview.
doctor balancing on a wire which is a stetoscope, high up in the air.
Cancer Research: Ethical, economical and societal aspects (15.04.2016)
Have you ever struggled to cope with the complexity of cancer biology, while also trying to produce results that are relevant for the research community? Or maybe you've thought about the difficult gap between patients' expectations and what your science can actually provide?
Vector showing an ovarian cancer tumor
Striking results in ovarian cancer trial using small peptides (10.03.2016)
CCBIO PI Lars A. Akslen and Postdoc Anna Blois (shared 1st author) are collaborators in a recently published study which shows that small peptides attack ovarian cancer on 2 fronts.
Group photo of the Kreyberg committee and the awardees.
Pathology award to CCBIO postdoc (25.02.2016)
Professor Kreyberg's Prize is awarded every leap year day to the best dissertation in the field of pathology during the last 4 years. An award of NOK 100.000 goes this year to Dr.Med. Elisabeth Wik, Fellow at the Department of Clinical Medicine and CCBIO Postdoc.
Image of young woman scientist in goggles against futuristic looking media screen.
Visit to the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University (21.01.2016)
14-15 January 2016, Roger Strand (SVT and CCBIO) took part in two events organized by the Initiative for the Humanistic Study of Innovation at Indiana University in Bloomington, US.
From left: Herlof Nilssen, Managing Director at Helse Vest, James Lorens, Helga Salvesen og Baard-Christian Schem, Senior Advisor at Helse Vest.
Helse Vest awards to CCBIO researchers (30.10.2015)
Helse Vest's Research Prize was this year awarded to the Gynaecologic Research Group led by CCBIO PI Helga B. Salvesen. The Innovation Award went to James Lorens at BerGenBio and UiB, also CCBIO PI.
the Norwegian flag and a doctor as a background, a scale with money and medicine in the front.
Health Priorities of the Future (27.10.2015)
Perhaps we should issue a time frame on the public health bureaucracy, says CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen, when considering the time it takes new drugs to be accepted to Norway.
Collage of educational session in auditorium and logos of CCBIO, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School.
INTPART-support for CCBIO-Harvard project (12.10.2015)
CCBIO applied for 4,5 million NOK over 3 years and has now been granted INTPART-funding from the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) and the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU).
Bjørn Tore Gjertsen teaching in the auditorium.
CCBIOs 5th Junior Scientist Symposium (12.10.2015)
At this semester’s first CCBIO Junior Scientist Symposium September 17th, there was again large interest in participating at the seminar. More than 40 registered for the whole seminar and even more participated at selected presentations.
Elisabeth Wik holding a presentation at a pathology conference in 2015.
CCBIO-researcher excelled in oral presentation at the ESP-Congress in Belgrade (23.09.2015)
Dr. Elisabeth Wik was awarded with 2nd best oral presentation at the European Congress of Pathology which took place in Belgrade, Serbia, September 5-9 2015.
Politiceller freistar å stoppe kreftcella Fråtse-Frida
The cancer cell Greedy Frieda thrilled researchers to-be (22.09.2015)
Excited children and adults crowded the Research Fair when researchers at the Center for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) performed a play about the cancer cell Greedy Frieda.
Kreftcella Fråtse-Frida får hjelp til å kople seg på blodsirkulasjonssystemet
Kreftcella Fråtse-Frida engasjerte unge forskarspirar (21.09.2015)
Begeistra born og vaksne stod tett i tett då forskarar ved Center for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) framførte skodespelet om kreftcella Fråtse-Frida på Forskingstorget.
investigator swabs a person in his mouth.
Smoking can activate a wide range of cancer types (24.08.2015)
CCBIO’s Professor Helga Salvesen has been co-author of a study recently published in the renowned journal JAMA Oncology. The results of the study may indicate that cigarette smoke helps to activate an entire universal "cancer program" which are also present in cancer that are not usually associated with smoking, including breast and gynecological cancers.

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