Ongoing studies

Major research projects

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells and development of organoids. Several projects developing
    models for the study of fat metabolism, cholestasis development (PNALD) and liver organoids.
  • Cholestatic diseases. Studies on cholestatic disease with genetic studies and
    cell models.
  • Early diagnosis of cholestasis and biliary atresia. Development of new methods to identify
    biomarkers.
  • Complications and long-term follow-up after organ transplantation in children
    (several projects on patients who have been transplanted with a kidney or liver):
    - metabolic risk factors and inflammation after kidney transplantation in children and adolescents
    - motor and cognitive function after transplantation
    - post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease
  • Transition: Adherence and graft loss in kidney transplanted adolescents in the period 2000-2020. Norwegian
    kidney registers.
  • ABO incompatible living donor kidney transplantations in pediatric patients: a collaborative study
    from the Nordic Paediatric Renal Transplantation Study Group (NPRTSG)
  • “Genetic factors in children with congenital kidney and urinary tract malformations” – multicentre
    study from Hannover
  • Cystransfer Norwegian study to compare outcomes before and after introduction of long-acting cysteamine versus short-acting. Retrospective study

National/international multicentre studies

  • Autoimmune hepatitis in the Nordic countries (Collaboration Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia).
  • Biliary atresia in northern countries (Collaboration Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland)
  • Genetic cholestasis disease (Collaboration Norway, Czech Republic)
  • EVITA study - Epstein-Barr Virus Infection moniToring in renal transplant recipients - Early identification of increased risk of infection and cancer for individualised immunosuppression.
    Collaboration with Odense and Aarhus, DK. Prospective multicentre study.