Research at Oslo University Hospital

 

More than 50 per cent of the total medical research in Norwegian medical centres is performed at Oslo University Hospital. This is the result of the hospital’s general research strategy and its extensive international and national network cooperation.

In this way, the medical centre complies with the requirements of its owner and patients relating to its role as national reference hospital, responsible for introducing and developing new medical examination methods, treatment methods and follow-ups. Research that supports prioritised areas of commitment will also safeguard the operation and development of national and multi-regional assignments, as well as the functions of the medical resource centres.

 

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JBI Award for for "Best Paper in Translational Bioinformatics" to scientists from Department of Genetics

 
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo

The Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) Award for "Best Paper in Translational Bioinformatics" was given to a work entitled "Allele-specific copy number analysis of breast carcinomas" and originating from the Department of Genetics at the Institute for Cancer Research. Presenting author was Peter Van Loo (photo), visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Genetics. Co-authors affiliated to the Oslo University Hospital were Silje Nordgard, Hege Russnes, Inga Rye, Bjørn Naume, Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale and Vessela Kristensen.

The ceremony took place during the annual international conference on "Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology" (ISMB), which was held in Boston this summer. The ISMB 2010 is counted as the year’s most important computational biology event globally. This is the major meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

 
 

Torsten Waldminghaus finds that surprising results of ChIP on Chip experiments are often false positives

 
T. Waldminghaus
T. Waldminghaus

In a currently published article in BMC Genomics, Torsten Waldminghaus and group leader Kirsten Skarstad from the Department of Cell Biology reveal a high number of false positives in ChIP on Chip experiments and develop a modified protocol.

 
 

Edgar Rivedal elected Chairperson of the IARC

 
E. Rivedal
E. Rivedal

Dr. Edgar Rivedal, head of the cell biology group at the Department of Cancer Prevention is elected Chairperson of the Scientifc Council of the "International Agency for Research on Cancer" (IARC).
The Scientific Council consists of scientists appointed as experts in cancer research, one from each of the 21 member states.