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Kushtrim Kryeziu is 37 years and defended his PhD at the Medical University of Vienna in 2016. Kryeziu was recruited to the Lothe lab in 2016 via an EU financed fellowship and was included in the Scientia Fellows postdoc program at the University of Oslo. His recruitment has proven highly beneficial for the development of the current project on functional oncology in advanced solid tumors. His competence in molecular cell biology and hands-on experience with anti-cancer drug development was instrumental to the development of our pre-clinical pharmacogenomics platform. Kryeziu has recently accepted a permanent position at the Institute for Cancer Research. 

Ina A. Eilertsen and Christian Holst Bergsland defended their respective work in transcriptomics and molecular pathology of colorectal cancer, Maren Høland recently defended her work on genomics of Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and Jonas Meier Strømme defended his computational analyses in solid tumors last week, 9^th Dec. Their PhD theses comprise a total of thirteen papers from our groups, including eleven first-authorships among the PhD candidates.

Molecular biologist Anita Sveen and surgeon Pål-Dag Line join forces in a new project to improve the patient benefit from liver transplantation of metastatic colorectal cancer. This is a collaborative effort between Dept Molecular Oncology (KRE) and Dept Transplantation Medicine (KIT)

The project is a translational substudy of ongoing clinical studies and will generate the first large-scale molecular and pharmacological data of transplantable metastatic colorectal cancers. This project was recently supported by a research grant from the Norwegian Cancer Society.

Anita Sveen, project group leader and member of the Lothe lab at the Department of Molecular Oncology at the Institute for Cancer research, was invited speaker at the AACR special conference colorectal cancer, held October 1-4th in Portland, Oregon, USA.
In her well received speech Dr. Sveen presented the multidisciplinary work from the TEAM-ACT (Tumor Evolution in Advanced Models to Accelerate precision Cancer Therapy) - a strategic research area of OUS. 

Our prostate cancer projects received attention and interest at the recent Norwegian Cancer Symposium held in Oslo and at the 34^th European Congress of Pathology held in Basel, Switzerland.

On the 21^st of April, the 4x-great-grandchild of Frederik Holst - the first who defended a doctoral thesis in Norway, University of Christiania - Christian Holst Bergsland defended his thesis “Fluorescence-based multiplex immunohistochemistry in precision medicine of colorectal cancer” for the PhD degree at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.
He received excellent assessment from the committee, both in the written report and during the defense. The first and second opponents were Professors Manuel Salto-Tellez, Institute for Cancer Research, London and Lars Akslen, University of Bergen. Professor Anne Hansen Ree was the chair of the evaluation committee.

Gene expression profiling of multiple intra-patient tumor foci reveals new insights about the heterogeneity in prostate cancer.

Editorial and selected cover image for the calender year 2022 of BBA Rev on Cancer.

Anita Sveen from the Department of Molecular Oncolocy is this year's winner of the prestigious Dr. Ragnar Mørk's Prize for cancer research. Anita received the prize of NOK 200.000 for her excellent work on colorectal cancer during an award ceremony in the Auditorium of the Research building on Friday 19th November. After receiving the prize, Anita gave a 30-minutes presentation of her work, and this was be followed by cakes and drinks in the canteen area.

On October 15^th 2021, Kristina Totland Carm successfully defended her thesis “Genomic aberrations and molecular subtypes in multifocal prostate cancer” for the PhD degree at the Medical Faculty, University of Oslo. She also gave a trial lecture on the given topic: “Multiparametric MRI-guided biopsies in prostate cancer diagnostics – challenges on the road towards radiogenomics”.

The adjudication committee included first opponent, Professor Ian Mills, University of Oxford, UK; second opponent, Professor Karl-Henning Kalland, University of Bergen, and chair of the evaluation committee was Associate Professor Stig Müller, University of Oslo. Chair of the defence was Associate Professor June Helen Myklebust, University of Oslo.

Principal Supervisor was Rolf I. Skotheim, and co-supervisors were Marthe Løvf, Andreas Hoff and Ragnhild A. Lothe.