The Section of Cellular Therapy

Welcome to the Department of Cellular Therapy which is home to one of Europe’s biggest and most modern GMP facilities for cellular products.

  Dag Josefsen, MD PhD, Head of Department

(Group leaders: E.M. Inderberg and S. Wälchli) has the capacity to undertake complete pre-clinical studies for immunotherapeutic molecules such as vaccines and adoptive T cell transfer (TCR, CAR). It possesses the competence to deliver molecular biology products isolated from patient material (TCR), to perform cellular assays and in vivo animal studies. Finally, innovative tools are also developed in collaboration with academy and private companies.

The Immunomonitoring Lab (Head: E.M. Inderberg) is a heritage from the former research group of Prof. G. Gaudernack and was included in the Department of Cellular Therapy in 2012. It participated to both academic and industrial trials, more information can be found here

Our labs are located at the Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator OCCI

ACT-centre aims at facilitating the development of novel advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP) and make novel therapies available to Norwegian patients. More information can be found here

FRESH NEWS:

ALTERCAR-STRATCELL Meeting on CAR-T, Thursday 11/04 at 14:00 IKF-Auditorium

we will welcome two speakers on Thursday the 11th of April at 14:00-15:00 at the Institute for Cancer Research main Auditorium (here)

 

Pablo Menendez (Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)

Cell-of-origin, pathobiology and therapeutics of MLL-rearranged B-cell ALL

 

Magdalena Winiarska (Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)

Development of alternative CAR constructs targeted against refractory B-cell malignancies

 

 ->CAR aficionados are welcome to stay longer for an after-speech informal discussion with our guests<-

z-movi almost ready for general use

We are extremly thankful to Radiumhospitalet Legater for their financial support to acquire a Lumicks z-movi device for Avidity analysis. We are greatful to the Head of our Clinic for making this acquisition possible.

(Picture. C. Forcados: z-movi freshly tagged with Legater sign)

It is now in place and running. Together with the OUS-core facility we have established a booking system and appointed two responsible scientists here. By mid-April we might be able to support future users.

Future users will have access to the booking system once training has been carried out, please contact Else Marit Inderberg or Sebastien Wälchli to organize the training.