In the 25 June issue of Nature, Harald Stenmark at Institute for Cancer Research and colleagues in Berkeley, Baltimore and Warsaw publish a review article on “The expanding repertoire of ESCRT functions in cell biology and disease”.
The review discusses the functions of ESCRT proteins in diverse cellular functions and highlights the associations between ESCRT dysfunctions in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.
Eirik Malinen at the Department of Radiation Biology received this year’s Michael Goitein Biology Award at the Annual Conference of the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG) for the work “Enhancing immunotherapy with proton- vs x-irradiation in mouse tumor models”.
The work is a collaborative effort between Malinen and the group of Nina Jeppesen Edin at the Physics Department, UiO, and Brita Sørensen at the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy in Aarhus. The proton experiments were performed in Aarhus, paving the way for follow-up activities at our new preclinical proton facility in Oslo.
