TRACE Seminars spring 2025
The aims of the TRACE seminars are to provide knowledge into the field of translational research in epidemiology and provide a more robust understanding of the causal mechanisms behind non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The seminars are organised as monthly meetings.
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Planned seminars spring 2025:
1) Time: February 19 at 12:00
Place: Online/Seminar room Midgard (0B20) at Alrek (Årstadveien 17)
Title: Cancer biomarker research in the Janus Serum Bank cohort
Speaker: Hilde Langseth, PI Janus Serum Bank, Cancer Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
2) Time: March 26 at 12:00
Place: Seminar room Borgaskaret (3F15) at Alrek (Årstadveien 17)
Title: From bench to bedside to bench: The development of a therapeutic molecule for cancer and the journey, taking the molecule into clinical trials, and back to research
Speaker: Professor emeritus Rolf Bjerkvig, Department of Biomedicine, UiB
3) Time: April 23 at 12:00
Place: Seminar room Midgard (0B20) at Alrek (Årstadveien 17)
Title: miR-146a-5p increases melanoma brain metastasis development by elevating Notch signaling
Speaker: Professor Frits Alan Thorsen, Department of Biomedicine, UiB
4) Time: May 21 at 12:00
Place: Online / Seminar room Midgard (0B20) at Alrek (Årstadveien 17)
Title: To be announced
Speaker: Eileen Morgan, PhD, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
5) Time: June 18 at 12:00
Place: Seminar room Borgaskaret (3F15) at Alrek (Årstadveien 17)
Title: Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes during early breast cancer progression
Speaker: Senior researcher Carina Strell, Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO), Department of Clinical Medicine, UiB
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