Biomedical research at Oslo University Hospital
Oslo University Hospital is a merger of three former university hospitals in Oslo. Biomedical research is one of the hospital's core activities. Research at the hospital is closely interlinked with research undertaken at the University of Oslo. More than 50% of all biomedical research in Norway is published by researchers affiliated with the hospital. Research undertaken cover both basic research, translational research, and clinical research.
Oslo University Hospital has a central role in developing and supporting biomedical research within the South-Eastern Regional Health Authority. The hospital also pursues international research collaborations.
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Summary of publications:
Publications from Oslo University Hospital 2016 - 2020
Includes ordinary journal articles and reviews only.
| Name | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OUS - Oslo University Hospital | 1901 | 2096 | 2024 | 2231 | 1789 |
| OUS - Division of Cancer Medicine | 432 | 406 | 371 | 419 | 362 |
| OUS - Department of Gynaecological Oncology | 24 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 17 |
| OUS - Department of Haematology | 42 | 51 | 47 | 54 | 42 |
| OUS - Department of Medical Physics | 5 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 13 |
| OUS - Department of Oncology | 147 | 125 | 166 | 159 | 147 |
| OUS - National Advisory Unit on Late Effects after Cancer Treatment | 39 | 28 | 21 | 27 | 28 |
| OUS - Section for Breast and Endocrine Surgery | 5 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| OUS - Section for Breast Oncology | 13 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 8 |
| OUS - Section for Cellular Therapy | 10 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 10 |
| OUS - Section for Experimental Cancer Treatment | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 7 |
| OUS - Section for gastrointestinal oncology | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
| OUS - Section for gynaecological radiotherapy | 8 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 7 |
| OUS - Section for head and neck oncology | 7 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 15 |
| OUS - Section for lung oncology | 17 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
| OUS - Section for Lymphoma and Medicine | 20 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 15 |
| OUS - Section for palliative medicine | 23 | 23 | 19 | 29 | 23 |
| OUS - Section for sarcoma and melanoma | 10 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 11 |
| OUS - Section for urological oncology | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 2 |
| OUS - Dept of Clin. Serv. (Div Cancer Med) | 5 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 8 |
| OUS - Diet and Oxidative Stress | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 6 |
| OUS - Nasj komp.tjeneste for sykdomsrelatert underernæring | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| OUS - Section of psychosocial oncology | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| OUS - Institute for Cancer Genetics and Informatics | 44 | 47 | 33 | 29 | 31 |
| OUS - Section for Cancer Cytogenetics | 15 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 17 |
| OUS - Institute for Cancer Research | 242 | 207 | 147 | 217 | 161 |
| OUS - Department of Cancer Genetics | 70 | 48 | 32 | 42 | 36 |
| OUS - Molecular Genetic Studies of Breast and Ovarian Cancer | 51 | 36 | 20 | 30 | 18 |
| OUS - Translational studies with a special focus on pancreatic cancer | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| OUS - Department of Cancer Immunology | 27 | 20 | 18 | 31 | 32 |
| OUS - Experimental Immunotherapy (Olweus) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| OUS - Lymphoma biology group | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| OUS - Molecular Medicine (Sioud) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| OUS - Department of Molecular Cell Biology | 38 | 34 | 22 | 30 | 30 |
| OUS - Cellular membrane dynamics (Stenmark) | 22 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 12 |
| OUS - Unit of Cellular Electron Microscopy | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| OUS - Intracellular transport (Sandvig) | 13 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 11 |
| OUS - Department of Molecular Oncology (2006-2014 Dept of Cancer Prev.) | 25 | 25 | 14 | 21 | 9 |
| OUS - Epigenetics (Lind) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| OUS - Genetics (Lothe) | 9 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 6 |
| OUS - Molecular Cell Biology (Leithe) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| OUS - Genome Biology Group (Skotheim) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| OUS - Department of Radiation Biology | 26 | 33 | 25 | 30 | 25 |
| OUS - Clinical Radiation Biology | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| OUS - Molecular Radiation Biology | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| OUS - Photochemical Internalisation (PCI) | 5 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
| OUS - Photodynamic therapy (PDT) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| OUS - Radiation biology & tumor physiology | 5 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| OUS - Radiation Biology and DNA Damage Signaling group | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| OUS - Regulation of translation in cell cycle and stress | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| OUS - Department of Tumor Biology | 63 | 55 | 46 | 74 | 36 |
| OUS - Induction of resistance in stem cells | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| OUS - Metastasis - biology and therapy | 16 | 13 | 5 | 19 | 7 |
| OUS - Metastasis - molecular studies and development of methods | 14 | 13 | 11 | 20 | 20 |
| OUS - Molecular characterization of mesenchymal cancer development | 9 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
| OUS - Translational Cancer Therapy | 25 | 18 | 12 | 23 | 9 |
| OUS - Division of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases | 178 | 191 | 194 | 174 | 159 |
| OUS - Department of Cardiology (Div CPD) | 74 | 97 | 98 | 78 | 81 |
| OUS - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery | 34 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 19 |
| OUS - Department of Respiratory Medicine | 24 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 23 |
| OUS - Department of Vascular Diseases | 13 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 10 |
| OUS - Institute for Experimental Medical Research (IEMR) | 27 | 47 | 32 | 39 | 24 |
| OUS - Institute for Surgical Research ISR | 30 | 38 | 37 | 32 | 24 |
| OUS - Division of Clinical Neuroscience | 196 | 191 | 186 | 242 | 183 |
| OUS - Department of Complex Epilepsy | 28 | 20 | 19 | 26 | 21 |
| OUS - Department of Neurohabilitation | 7 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 11 |
| OUS - Department of Neurology | 84 | 83 | 84 | 120 | 79 |
| OUS - Department of Neuropsychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine | 24 | 20 | 25 | 14 | 4 |
| OUS - Department of Neurosurgery | 45 | 42 | 52 | 54 | 34 |
| OUS - Neurovascular-Hydrocephalus Research Group | 21 | 28 | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| OUS - Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 32 | 36 | 25 | 28 | 38 |
| OUS - Division of Emergencies and Critical Care | 126 | 179 | 156 | 170 | 116 |
| OUS - Department of Anesthesiology | 40 | 68 | 60 | 67 | 37 |
| OUS - Department of Intensive Care Medicine | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
| OUS - Department of Pain Management and Research | 16 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 23 |
| OUS - Department of Research and Development (Div Emerg. & Clin. Care) | 22 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 15 |
| OUS - Department of Traumatology | 8 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| OUS - The Intervention Centre | 54 | 62 | 65 | 71 | 37 |
| OUS - Division of Head, Neck and Reconstructive Surgery | 51 | 66 | 59 | 66 | 59 |
| OUS - Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Odontology | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| OUS - Department of Ophthalmology | 27 | 37 | 30 | 40 | 24 |
| OUS - Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery | 14 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 12 |
| OUS - Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 10 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 24 |
| OUS - Division of Laboratory Medicine | 435 | 466 | 449 | 450 | 372 |
| OUS - Department of Immunology (Div LabMed) | 94 | 95 | 84 | 98 | 63 |
| OUS - Centre for Immune Regulation (CIR) | 30 | 29 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| OUS - NKRG | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| OUS - Unit for Cell Signalling (Krauss) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| OUS - Department of Medical Biochemistry | 75 | 77 | 68 | 67 | 60 |
| OUS - Department of Medical Genetics | 81 | 75 | 102 | 96 | 56 |
| OUS - Department of Microbiology | 61 | 63 | 35 | 43 | 38 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology (MIK), Section for Research, former CMBN | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Bioinformatics group (Rognes) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Cellular Responses to DNA Damage (Bjørås) | 15 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 10 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Clinical Virology Research Group (Dudman) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, DNA replication and chromosome dynamics (Skarstad) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Genome dynamics and microbial pathogenesis (Tønjum) | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Lab for genome repair and regulation (Klungland) | 17 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 |
| OUS - Dept. of Microbiology, Virology research group (Kaarbø) | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| OUS - Department of Pathology | 125 | 132 | 132 | 91 | 113 |
| OUS - Department of Pharmacology | 42 | 29 | 24 | 40 | 32 |
| OUS - Division of Medicine | 288 | 331 | 311 | 388 | 284 |
| OUS - Department of Acute Medicine | 26 | 10 | 21 | 27 | 13 |
| OUS - Department of Cardiology B (Div Med) | 70 | 76 | 70 | 89 | 64 |
| OUS - Center for Clinical Heart Research | 21 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 18 |
| OUS - Department of Clinical Service (Div Med) | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| OUS - Department of Digital Health Research | 5 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 12 |
| OUS - Department of Endocrinology, Morbid Obesity and Preventive Medicine | 96 | 118 | 106 | 131 | 97 |
| OUS - Section of Endocrinology | 56 | 71 | 76 | 104 | 52 |
| OUS - Section of Morbid Obesity and Bariatric Surgery | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
| OUS - Section of Preventive Medicine | 40 | 45 | 30 | 30 | 40 |
| OUS - Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| OUS - Section for Preventive Cardiology | 9 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 9 |
| OUS - Section of Cardiovascular and Renal Research | 10 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| OUS - The Lipid Clinic | 16 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| OUS - Department of General Internal Medicine | 8 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 5 |
| OUS - Department of Geriatric Medicine | 28 | 48 | 37 | 72 | 49 |
| OUS - Department of Infectious Diseases | 30 | 30 | 28 | 20 | 19 |
| OUS - Department of Nephrology (Div Med) | 13 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| OUS - Department of Pulmonary Medicine | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| OUS - Dept. of Gastroenterology (Div Medicine) | 32 | 30 | 33 | 37 | 25 |
| OUS - Division of Mental Health and Addiction | 144 | 155 | 163 | 205 | 150 |
| OUS - Addiction Treatment Research Units | 12 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 13 |
| OUS - Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| OUS - Centre for National and Regional Mental Health Services | 19 | 27 | 20 | 32 | 15 |
| OUS - Personality Disorders Research Unit | 4 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 5 |
| OUS - Regional Department for Eating Disorders (RASP) | 15 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 7 |
| OUS - Centre of Mental Health Services, local services | 3 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| OUS - Research and Development Mental Health | 95 | 98 | 113 | 137 | 118 |
| OUS - Centre of Connected Care C3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| OUS - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research Unit | 6 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 8 |
| OUS - Psychosis Research (NORMENT) | 79 | 86 | 94 | 116 | 95 |
| OUS - Section for treatment research | 8 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 11 |
| OUS - Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 87 | 94 | 84 | 87 | 54 |
| OUS - Department of Gynaecology | 34 | 22 | 30 | 28 | 17 |
| OUS - Department of Reproductive Medicine | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| OUS - Department of Obstetrics | 44 | 49 | 35 | 40 | 25 |
| OUS - Division of Orthopaedic Surgery | 70 | 95 | 91 | 86 | 64 |
| OUS - Division of Oslo Hospital Services | 91 | 100 | 110 | 117 | 86 |
| OUS - Avdeling for smittevern | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| OUS - Forskningsstøtte | 83 | 91 | 95 | 103 | 78 |
| OUS - Avdeling for forskningsadministrasjon og biobank | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| OUS - Biobank og registerstøtte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| OUS - Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology | 81 | 90 | 91 | 95 | 74 |
| OUS - Medisinsk teknologisk virksomhet | 6 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 5 |
| OUS - Division of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine | 147 | 156 | 182 | 166 | 149 |
| OUS - Department of Clinical Neurosciences for Children | 18 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 26 |
| OUS - Department of Neonatal Intensive Care | 14 | 16 | 13 | 20 | 23 |
| OUS - Department of Paediatric Medicine | 61 | 65 | 88 | 68 | 64 |
| OUS - Department of Pediatric Research | 32 | 26 | 36 | 31 | 32 |
| OUS - Division of Prehospital Service | 12 | 18 | 12 | 23 | 19 |
| OUS - Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine | 88 | 95 | 101 | 122 | 109 |
| OUS - Division of Surgery, Inflammatory Medicine and Transplantation | 259 | 290 | 263 | 302 | 216 |
| OUS - Department of Gastrointestinal and Paediatric Surgery | 55 | 57 | 60 | 81 | 63 |
| OUS - Department of Paediatric Surgery | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 |
| OUS - Department of Rheumatology, Dermatology and Infectious Diseases | 74 | 94 | 75 | 84 | 61 |
| OUS - Dermatology Research Group | 5 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 12 |
| OUS - Rheumatology Research Group | 19 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 17 |
| OUS - Department of Transplantation Medicine | 95 | 121 | 108 | 107 | 83 |
| OUS - Department of Nephrology Rikshospitalet (Div SIMT) | 28 | 33 | 32 | 25 | 15 |
| OUS - Department of Transplantation Surgery | 9 | 23 | 31 | 22 | 19 |
| OUS - Dept. of Gastroenterology RH (Div SIMT) | 35 | 32 | 19 | 21 | 21 |
| OUS - Department of Urology | 20 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 8 |
| OUS - Research Institute of Internal Medicine | 75 | 76 | 71 | 71 | 42 |