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<title><![CDATA[Erik Boye Institute seminar June 19th]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13572</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Institute Seminar on Wednesday June 19h will ble held by Erik Boye, Scientific Director at the Institute for Cancer Research.Title of his talk: &ldquo;Information from the Institute Council&rdquo;.Time and place: 12 - 13 in the Auditorium, New Research Building, Montebello.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-17T15:27:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Important findings from Skjeven, Lødrup Carlsen and coworkers published in New England Journal of Medicine ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13569</link>
<description><![CDATA[H&aring;vard Ove Skjerven and Karin C. L&oslash;drup Carlsen (photo) from the Department of Pediatrics at OUS are first and last author of an article published in New England Journal of Medicine (journal impact factor 53.3) June 13th, entitled "Racemic Adrenaline and Inhalation Strategies in Acute Bronchiolitis".&nbsp;In this paper Skjerven, L&oslash;drup Carlsen and coworkers aimed to assess the effectiveness of inhaled racemic adrenaline as compared with inhaled saline and the strategy for frequency of inhalation (on demand vs. fixed schedule) in infants hospitalized with acute bronchiolitis. Their findings has led to changes in the national guidelines, thus improving the treatment of bronchiolits.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-14T14:52:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Announcement of research funding for 2014 from Helse Sør-Øst  ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13568</link>
<description><![CDATA[Helse Sør-Øst RHF, in cooperation with the University of Oslo, are now announcing research funding opportunities for 2014.#BILDE#The total amount available will be approx. 100 million kr for new measures in 2014.The application deadline is 6th September 2013, 4:00 PM.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-13T14:47:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[International approaches to personalized cancer medicine OUS research seminar June 12th 12:00-16;00]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13554</link>
<description><![CDATA[The interest in personalized approaches to cancer treatment is increasing sharply, and in several countries there are national initiatives to evaluate and implement these in clinical practise. Most notable has been the initiatives in the UK, France and Norway, and these will be presented at this symposium at Radiumhospitalet. Both the exciting possibilities, the technical issues and clinical challenges will be addressed.The symposium is organised in collaboration with the National Collaboration Group for Health Research (NSG) and Oslo Cancer Cluster. Everyone is welcome, also if you cannot attend the whole symposium.Time and place: Wednesday, June 12th 2013, at 12:00-16:00 in the Auditorium FOBY (Forskningsbygget), Radiumhospitalet, OUS]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-05T11:40:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Guttorm Haraldsen appointed "Scientist of the Month" by "Helse Sør-Øst" for May 2013 ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13553</link>
<description><![CDATA[The South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse S&oslash;r-&Oslash;st) aims to profile ongoing excellent research in the region by calling special attention to a "Scientist of the Month".For the month of May 2013, this honor goes to Guttorm Haraldsen from the Department of Pathology at the Division of Diagnostics and Intervention at Oslo University Hospital.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-04T16:05:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Janne Lehtiö Guest lecturer - K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research - June 13th]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13552</link>
<description><![CDATA[The K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research has invited Janne Lehti&ouml; from Karolinska Institutet, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm will to give a guest lecture on Thursday June 13th, entitled "From genotype to molecular phenotype: In-depth cancer proteomics on hormonal and EGFR driven cancers." Time and place: 10:00-11:00 am, in the Auditorium, FOBY, MontebelloJanne Lehti&ouml; is heading clinical cancer proteomics group at Karolinska Institutet, and he is platform manager for mass spectrometry platform at Science for Life Laboratory in Stockholm.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-06-04T14:07:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Focus on recruitment and career building in health research Kick-off seminar at Montebello on June 21st:]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13538</link>
<description><![CDATA[A kick-off seminar focusing on how to improve recruitment and facilitate career building within the field of health research will be held in the new research building at the Norwegian Radium Hospital at Montebello June 21st. Main target groups for the seminar are leaders and heads of research from hospital trusts, universities and colleges within South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Sør-Øst). The programs represent a regional effort from Helse Sør-Øst.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-24T14:04:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A newly identified protein regulates cell division ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13533</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anja Nilsen (photo) from Arne Klungland's group at the Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, is shared first-author on a collaborative work entitled "ALKBH4-dependent demethylation of actin regulates actomyosin dynamics", recently published in Nature communications.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-21T11:18:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The story of PCI popularized and presented in national media ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13529</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kristian Berg at the Department of Radiation Biology at the Institute for Cancer Research played a key role in when the technique of "photochemical internalization" (PCI) was developed. This method was introduced in 1995. The story behind PCI is widely presented in a popularized form on the web page of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) as well as on the much visited Norwegian popular science web site "forskning.no".]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-14T13:57:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Publication in Nature Genetics on testicular cancer susceptibility ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13528</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers from Department of Cancer Prevention, Institute for Cancer Research and Centre for Cancer Biomedicine are involved in an international consortium on genetics of testicular germ cell tumours. The testicular cancer consortium, which is directed from National Cancer Institute and University of Pennsylvania, recently published two articles in Nature Genetics (Chung et al., May 2013) and Human Molecular Genetics (Schumacher et al., March 2013) respectively. Rolf Skotheim (photo) is the site responsible in Oslo, and says that across all types of cancer, testicular cancer is now the type for which known susceptibility genes explain the largest fraction the genetic risk.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-13T15:17:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Gunnar Kvalheim Institute seminar May 8th]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13521</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Institute Seminar on Wednesday May 8th will ble held by Gunnar Kvalheim.Title of his talk: "Translational research and clinical activities on human stem cells at Department of Cellular Therapy, Radiumhospitalet".Time and place: 12 - 13 in the Auditorium, New Research Building, Montebello.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-06T10:56:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Llorente and coworkers publish detailed lipidomic analyses of exosomes released from prostate cancer cells ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13515</link>
<description><![CDATA[Project group leader Alicia Llorente, working in the group of Kirsten Sandvig, has recently published the lipid composition of a prostate cancer cell line and of the exosomes released from these cells. The work was performed in collaboration with two Finnish research groups and published in Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Mol. Cell Biol. Lip.; journal impact factor 5.3). The study, based on the quantification of 280 molecular lipid species, provides the most extensive lipid analysis of cells and their released exosomes to date.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-05-02T14:44:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Annetine Staff appointed "Scientist of the Month" by "Helse Sør-Øst" for April 2013 ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13495</link>
<description><![CDATA[The South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse S&oslash;r-&Oslash;st) aims to profile ongoing excellent research in the region by calling special attention to a "Scientist of the Month".For the month of April 2013, this honor goes to Annetine Staff from the Department of Gynaecology at the Women and Childrens Division at Oslo University Hospital.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-30T13:04:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Awards from Oslo University Hospital to outstanding research ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13489</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Friday April 26th nine research awards were distributed to scientists from Oslo University Hospital. The prizes were given out by Bj&oslash;rn Erikstein, managing director at the hosptital during a ceremony taking place at Rikshospitalet, Gaustad.
Awards went to six excellent research articles. For the first time, prizes also were given to three individual researchers. The "Excellent Researcher Award" was won by Harald Stenmark. The two "Early Career Awards" went to Guro Elisabeth Lind and Tom Hemming Karlsen.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-26T15:53:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Work on selective tankyrase inhibitor from Krauss and collaborators highlighted as cover story in Sci-Bx ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13486</link>
<description><![CDATA[A research team from  SFI-CAST Innovation center at the Oslo University  Hospital, led by Stefan Krauss, and including Jo Waaler, Daniel  Holsworth, Andrew Voronkov and Jens Preben Morth have developed a highly selective tankyrase inhibitor. Tankyrase is a druggable target in the otherwise hard-to-hit Wnt signaling pathway and has implications in colon cancer, pancreas adenocarcinoma, ovary cancer, lung cancer and other solid tumors. The tankyrase inhibitor may open a new therapeutic approach.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-25T14:31:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A newly identified mitochondrial enzyme protects against obesity. ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13480</link>
<description><![CDATA[Anja Solberg (photo), from Arne Klungland's group at the Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, is first-author on a collaborative work entitled "Deletion of mouse Alkbh7 leads to obesity.", published in Journal of Molecular Cell Biology (journal impact factor 7.667).]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-24T15:15:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Nine research awards will be distributed at Rikshospitalet - Gaustad on Friday April 26th at 7.45 am ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13460</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Friday April 26th nine research awards will be distributed to scientists from Oslo University Hospital. The prizes will be given out by Bj&oslash;rn Erikstein (photo), managing director at the hosptital, during an event taking place from 7.45 to 8.30 am in the Large auditorium at Rikshospitalet, Gaustad.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-22T15:38:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[OUS researchers in the media ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13459</link>
<description><![CDATA[Research activities performed by scientiste employed at the Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital have recently been presesented via major Norwegian media channels. Guro Lind from the Dept. of Cancer Prevention has been invited by "NRK Ekko"(the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) to talk about blood based testing for early detection of colorectal cancer. On April 20th Leonardo Meza-Zepeda and Ola Myklebost from the Dept. of Tumor Biology commented on the subject "New genetic test may revolutionize cancer treatment" on the major Norwegian TV channel "TV2".]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-22T14:39:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Drs Sigrid Marie Kraggerud, Christina Høi-Hansen and Sharmini Alagaratnam publish in Endrocrine Reviews ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13458</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a comprehensive review the Lothe group together with colleagues from University of Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet), Dr. Ewa Rajpert-Dde Meyts group, revisit the total literature on molecular biology of germ cell tumors of the ovary. Endrocrine Reviews is the highest ranked journal in the category of Endocrinology and metabolism with impact factor of 19.9.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-22T10:57:00Z</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[OUS researchers contribute to pioneering approach of crowdsourced research competition ]]></title>
<link>http://www.ous-research.no/institute/?k=institute/news&amp;amp;aid=13447</link>
<description><![CDATA[In an extensive collaboration with the Department of Pathology (Hege G. Russnes) and&nbsp;Department of Oncology (Lars Ottestad and Hans Kristian Vollan), scientists from the Department of Genetics lead by Anne-Lise B&oslash;rresen contributed to a pioneering approach of crowdsourced research competition &mdash; the Sage Bionetworks&ndash;DREAM Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge. In this competition computational biologist from the whole world made use of gene expression, gene copy number, and clinical data to develop prognostic models for breast cancer survival in an open challenge environment.In the April 17 issue of Science Translational Medicine, the Challenge&rsquo;s conception and execution as well as insights derived from its outcome are described.]]></description>
<dc:date>2013-04-18T23:43:00Z</dc:date>
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