Ongoing academic degrees
(candidate, tentative project titles, supervisors)
PhD projects
- Ingrid Vikan Sjurgard. Molecular- and immuno- profiling of esophageal adenocarcinoma. Supervisor: Guro E. Lind; co-supervisor: Tom Mala
- Jakob Mørkved Stenersen. E3 ubiquitin ligases as prognostic and predictive biomarkers in colorectal cancer. Supervisor: Edward Leithe; co-supervisors: Kushtrim Kryeziu and Anita Sveen
- Ida Sophie Gjøstøl Strømsvåg. Improving the activity of PARP inhibitors against colorectal cancer
Supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu; co-supervisors: Anita Sveen, Ragnhild A. Lothe - Ingrid Moa Bolstad. Transcriptomic plasticity in metastatic progression of colorectal cancer. Supervisor: Anita Sveen; co-supervisor: Luís Nunes.
Master projects
- Marte Tholvsen Hansen. Transcript expression profiling of selected biomarker genes in prostate cancer. Supervisor: Bjarne Johannessen; co-supervisor: Rolf I. Skotheim
- Ida Bergill. Role of oncogenic E3 ubiquitin ligases in promoting the loss of intercellular communication via gap junctions in cervical cancer cells and its implications for resistance to cisplatin. Supervisor: Edward Leithe. Co-supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu
- Marguerite Pom Derwael, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. DNA methylation and integrative multi-omics of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Host: Anita Sveen
- Kira Jäger. Technische Hochschule Mannheim, Germany. Patient-derived organoid and tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte co-cultures for evaluating PARP inhibition in colorectal cancer. Supervisor: Kushtrim Kryeziu
- Cameron Aldgate. University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Role of connexin43-based gap junctions in cancer drug resistance. Supervisor: Edward Leithe