The Institute for Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital celebrated its 70th anniversary with the Norwegian Cancer Symposium 2024 on September 9-10.
The event highlighted the institute's groundbreaking contributions to cancer research, featuring 15 distinguished speakers, 8 selected short talks, 118 posters, and 430 registered participants.
The UiO Growth House invites you to spend with great science, innovation and networking opportunities at this meeting place for academia, the institute sector, the public sector, start-ups and industry.
Topic: Artificial intelligence in life sciences and energy. The conference is a part of Oslo Innovation Week 2024.
Time and place: Sep. 25, 2024 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Oslo Science Park, Gaustadalléen 21, Oslo
The Porto Municipal Medals ceremony for 2024 was held on July 9th, recognising several individuals and institutions for their distinguished merits and civic achievements. Among the recipients of the Medal of Merit - Gold grade, was Professor Ragnhild A. Lothe from the Norwegian Radiumhospital - Institute for Cancer Research. Professor Lothe has played pivotal role in over 30 years of collaboration with scientists and clinicians at medical institutions in Porto, including IPATIMUP, the Portuguese Oncology Institute, and the University of Porto. This collaboration has resulted in numerous joint scientific papers, PhD degrees, innovation projects, and exchanges of scientific and technological expertise.
The Mayor, Rui Moreira, and the President of the Minicipal Assembly, Sebestião de Azevedo, presented the medal in the presence of the municipal executive council.
A paper entitled "Pan-cancer profiling of tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells through transcriptional reference mapping" was published in the highly ranked journal Nature Immunology on July 2. This work will be an important resource when designing new NK cell therapies.
The authors have been analyzing transcriptional data from 427 patients and 39 datasets, including 7 solid tumor types (lung, brain, skin, pancreas, prostate, breast, sarcoma). They could identify 6 different functional states of tumor-infiltrating NK cells, and the state of the NK cells correlate with survival for cancer patients.
Tore Skotland and Kirsten Sandvig, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, have together with four international experts on mass spectroscopy (MS) analyses of lipids, published a short comment (2 pages with a supplementary of 2 pages) in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
The article is entitled “Pitfalls in lipid mass spectroscopy of mammalian samples – a brief guide for biologists”.
Three Oslo University Hospital scientists received prestigous awards for their outstanding research on Friday June 14th.
The major prize - the "Excellent Researcher Award" - went to Kjetil Taskén.
Chloé Beate Steen and Andreas Kleppe both received the "Early Career Award".
The prize money - 400.000 and 200.000 NOK respectively - is earmarked for research activities.
The awards are distributed anually in order to honour excellent scientific work. The awarding process is organized by the hospital's research committee, while an external Scientific Advisory Board has evaluated the candidates.