Gerd Berge
Job description
Associate professor and group leader for Tumor Biology Research Group.
My interests are cancer research, developing new methods for treating cancer, and increasing the quality of life in patients.
As a teacher, my passion is that students should take responsibility of their own learning. I design my teaching in order to induce feeling of safety, a sence of accomplishment and building relationships among students to promote motivation for learning. Based on this work I was assigned the Teaching Price at Health Faculty in 2022.
Distinguished teacher 2023.
gerd Berge,
Iris Borch,
Kine Maridatter Dørum Maxwell,
Jens Breivik,
Torill Sommerlund,
Marko Lukic
:
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: A COLLABORATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR CO-CREATING NOVEL ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN A WORLD WHERE GENERATIVE AI EXISTS
ICERI Proceedings 10. November 2025
Iris Borch,
Kine Maridatter Dørum Maxwell,
Jens Breivik,
gerd Berge,
Marko Lukic,
Torill Sommerlund
:
Strengthening dialogue between students and teachers about generative AI in rethinking assessment practices in higher education
ICERI2025 Proceedings 10. November 2025 DOI
Kjersti Sellæg,
Ruth Schwienbacher,
Mathias Kranz,
Anna Engan Aamodt,
Anna Maria Wirsing,
gerd Berge
et al.:
4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide-induced oral epithelial lesions exhibit time- and stage-dependent changes in the tumor immune microenvironment
Tina Coucheron,
Malgorzata Uhrynowska,
Katarzyna Guz,
Agnieszka Orzińska,
Marzena Debska,
Agnieszka Gierszon
et al.:
What's with the boys? Lower birth weight in boys from HPA-1a alloimmunized pregnancies – New insights from a large prospective screening study in Poland
Susannah von Hofsten,
Manuel K Langer,
Katja Korelin,
Synnøve Norvoll Magnussen,
Dominik Ausbacher,
Trude Anderssen
et al.:
Amphipathic barbiturates as marine product mimics with cytolytic and immunogenic effects on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines
Eirik André Lindeløff Rustad,
Susannah von Hofsten,
Robin Kumar,
Eirik Abrahamsen Lænsman,
Gerd Berge,
Natasa Skalko-Basnet
:
The pH-Responsive Liposomes—The Effect of PEGylation on Release Kinetics and Cellular Uptake in Glioblastoma Cells
Susannah von Hofsten,
Marianne Hagensen Paulsen,
Synnøve Magnussen,
Dominik Ausbacher,
Mathias Kranz,
Annette Bayer
et al.:
The marine natural product mimic MPM-1 is cytolytic and induces DAMP release from human cancer cell lines
Ketil Andre Camilio,
gerd Berge,
Chandra Sekhar Ravuri,
Øystein Rekdal,
Baldur Sveinbjørnsson
:
Complete regression and systemic protective immune responses obtained in B16 melanomas after treatment with LTX-315
Gerd Berge,
Liv Tone Eliassen,
Ketil Andre Camilio,
Kristian Bartnes,
Baldur Sveinbjørnsson,
Øystein Rekdal
:
Therapeutic vaccination against a murine lymphoma by intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy 2010 DOI
Liv Tone Eliassen,
Gerd Berge,
Arild Leknessund,
Mari Wikman,
inger Lindin,
Cecilie Løkke
et al.:
The antimicrobial peptide, Lactoferricin B, is cytotoxic to neuroblastoma cells in vitro and inhibits xenograft growth in vivo
International Journal of Cancer 2006
liv tone Eliassen,
Bengt Erik Haug,
Gerd Berge,
Øystein Rekdal
:
Enhanced antitumor activity of 15-residue bovine lactoferricin derivatives containing bulky aromatic amino acids and lipophilic N-terminal modifications
Journal of Peptide Science 2003
liv tone Eliassen,
gerd Berge,
Baldur Sveinbjørnsson,
John Sigurd Svendsen,
Lars H. Vorland,
Øystein Rekdal
:
Evidence for a direct antitumor mechanism of action of bovine lactoferricin
Anticancer Research 2002
Kjersti Sellæg,
Susannah von Hofsten,
Saikat Das Sajib,
Karoline Sollid Evensen,
Beate Hegge,
Margrethe Similä Vasslag
et al.:
Hva gjør en kreftforsker?
2025
Margrethe Similä Vasslag,
Kjersti Sellæg,
Morten Bøhmer Strøm,
Stine Figenschau,
Rodrigo Berzaghi,
Mathias Kranz
et al.:
Intratumoral treatment of glioblastoma in mice using the novel compound MPM-1
2025
Eirik André Lindeløff Rustad,
Stine Figenschau,
gerd Berge,
Natasa Skalko Basnet
:
Role of liposomal PEGylation on protein corona formation and cellular uptake mechanisms
2023
Kjersti Sellæg,
Ruth Schwienbacher,
Anna Maria Wirsing,
Anna Engan Aamodt,
Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen,
Gerd Berge
et al.:
The spatiotemporal immune profile during mouse oral carcinogenesis
2023
Ruth Schwienbacher,
Anna Engan Aamodt,
Anna Maria Wirsing,
Gerd Berge,
Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen,
Synnøve Magnussen
:
The spatiotemporal immune profile during mouse oral carcinogenesis - high-endothelial venules develop during early stages - and accumulate in late-stage disease
2023
Ruth Schwienbacher,
Anna Engan Aamodt,
Anna Maria Wirsing,
Gerd Berge,
Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen,
Synnøve Magnussen
:
The spatiotemporal immune profile during mouse oral carcinogenesis - high-endothelial venules develop during early stages - and accumulate in late-stage disease
2023
Synnøve Magnussen,
Gerd Berge,
Ruth Schwienbacher,
Anna Maria Wirsing,
Elin Synnøve Hadler-Olsen
:
The spatiotemporal immune profile during mouse oral carcinogenesis
Molecular Oncology 2023 DOI
May-Britt Five,
gerd Berge,
Susannah von Hofsten,
Kjersti Sellæg
:
Medisiner fra havet
2023
Susannah von Hofsten,
Marianne Hagensen Paulsen,
Manuel K Langer,
Synnøve Norvoll Magnussen,
Dominik Ausbacher,
Annette Bayer
et al.:
A Compound Inspired by Arctic Marine Animals Kills Cancer Cells in vitro and in vivo
2022
Susannah von Hofsten,
Synnøve Norvoll Magnussen,
Dominik Ausbacher,
Marianne Hagensen Paulsen,
Annette Bayer,
Morten B. Strøm
et al.:
The Marine Natural Product Mimic MHP88 Shows Anticancer Activity and has the Potential to Cause Immunogenic Cell Death
2020 ARKIV
gerd Berge
:
Kreftcellejakten
2019
Kristel Berg,
gerd Berge,
inger Lindin,
Ketil Andre Camilio,
I Chapman,
O Rekdal
et al.:
Protection against murine A20 B-cell lymphoma tumour re-growth can be passively transferred to untreated naive mice via splenocytes from donors previously treated with LTX-315
European Journal of Cancer 2009
gerd Berge
:
In vivo studies of antitumor peptides
2006
Klara Stensvåg,
Tor Haug,
Gerd Berge,
Guro Strandskog,
Terje Vasskog,
Erling Sandsdalen
et al.:
Antibacterial peptides in spider crab (Hyas araneus)
2003
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Research interests
Tumor immunology
Glioblastoma
Personalized medicine
Drug development in cancer treatment
Teaching
Course leader:
MBI-3012: Advanced methods in experimental biomedicine, 30 stp.
ERN-2013: Immunology, pharmacology, epigenetics and microbiology, 7 stp.
Teacher:
Integrated metabolism (ERN-2013 Micronutrients), Innovation for master's students (MBI-3012), Tumor immunology and immunotherapy (MBI-3004 The biology of cancer, MBI-2004 Immunology), In vivo/in vitro methods (ERN-3004 Epidemiology, statistics and research methods)
Distinguished teacher 2023
