Bilde av Urbarova, Ilona H.
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Bilde av Urbarova, Ilona H.
Postdoctoral Fellow in molecular cancer epidemiology Department of Community Medicine ilona.urbarova@uit.no You can find me here

Ilona H. Urbarova


Job description

Ilona H. Urbarova is a postdoctor in molecular biology and bioinformatics at the Faculty of Health Sciences at UiT. Her research is targeted at analyses of sequencing data in blood samples of lung cancer patients, both at and prior to diagnosis, and how they correlate with changes in immune cells in blood and in tumour. She has a long experience (over 10 years) with analyses of different sequencing data at genome, transcriptome and proteome level (including epigenomics, miRNA expression and de novo genomics and transcriptomics). She is currently also part of other studies that are looking at inflammatory blood markers and their association with colorectal cancer, periodontitis or human social exposome. She has also been involved in EU-funded PERFORCE3 project studying environmental contaminants and last year she got also involved in EU-funded DISCERN project that tries to identify the causes of three poorly understood cancers in Europe – renal, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer.

Ilona H. Urbarova is a postdoctor in Systems Epidemiology group at the Department of Community Medicine (ISM).


  • Ana Carolina Miranda Fernandes Coelho, Lara Cioni, Wendy van Dreunen, Vivian Berg, Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander, Ilona Halva Urbarova et al.:
    Legacy perfluoroalkyl acids and their oxidizable precursors in plasma samples of Norwegian women
    Environment International 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sebastian Löding, Ulrika Andersson, Rudolf Kaaks, Matthias B. Schulze, Valeria Pala, Ilona Halva Urbarova et al.:
    Altered plasma metabolite levels can be detected years before a glioma diagnosis
    JCI Insight 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ilona Halva Urbarova, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Yi-Qian Sun, Xiao-Mei Mai, Bjørn Henning Grønberg, Torkjel Manning Sandanger et al.:
    Increased expression of individual genes in whole blood is associated with late-stage lung cancer at and close to diagnosis
    Scientific Reports 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ruomei Li, Sabin Bhandari, Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Ilona Halva Urbarova, Bård Smedsrød et al.:
    Changes in the proteome and secretome of rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells during early primary culture and effects of dexamethasone
    PLOS ONE 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Ilona Halva Urbarova, Robin Mjelle, Erna-Elise Paulsen, Tom Dønnem et al.:
    Increased levels of microRNA-320 in blood serum and plasma is associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
    Molecular Oncology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Vivian Viallon, Mathilde His, Sabina Rinaldi, Marie Breeur, Audrey Gicquiau, Bertrand Hémon et al.:
    A new pipeline for the normalization and pooling of metabolomics data
    Metabolites 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Karine Alcala, Ilona Urbarova, Karl Smith Byrne, Florence Guida, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank
    European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Md Ashraful Islam, Ilona Urbarova, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez :
    LARGE-SCALE SECRETOME ANALYSES UNVEIL THE SUPERIOR IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE PHENOTYPE OF UMBILICAL CORD STROMAL CELLS AS COMPARED TO OTHER ADULT MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS
    European Cells and Materials 20. February 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Md Ashraful Islam, Vegard Fossum, Ann Kristin Hansen, Ilona Urbarova, Gunnar Knutsen, Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez :
    In vitro chondrogenic potency of surplus chondrocytes from autologous transplantation procedures does not predict short-term clinical outcomes
    BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jorunn Pauline Cavanagh, Fatemeh Askarian, Maria Pain, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Ilona Urbarova, Sun Nyunt Wai et al.:
    Proteome profiling of secreted and membrane vesicle associated proteins of an invasive and a commensal Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate.
    Data in Brief 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ilona Urbarova, Sylvain Forêt, Per Mikael Dahl, Åse Emblem, Marco Milazzo, Jason M. Hall-Spencer et al.:
    Ocean acidification at a coastal CO2 vent induces expression of stress-related transcripts and transposable elements in the sea anemone Anemonia viridis
    PLOS ONE 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Stine Figenschau, Erik Knutsen, Ilona Urbarova, Christopher Graham Fenton, Bryan Elston, Maria Perander et al.:
    ICAM1 expression is induced by proinflammatory cytokines and associated with TLS formation in aggressive breast cancer subtypes
    Scientific Reports 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sylvia Ighem Chi, Ilona Urbarova, Steinar Daae Johansen :
    Expression of homing endonuclease gene and insertion-like element in sea anemone mitochondrial genomes: Lesson learned from Anemonia viridis
    Gene 2018 DOI
  • Ilona Urbarova, Hardip Patel, Sylvain Forêt, Bård Ove Karlsen, Tor Erik Jørgensen, Jason M. Hall-Spencer et al.:
    Elucidating the Small Regulatory RNA Repertoire of the Sea Anemone Anemonia viridis Based on Whole Genome and Small RNA Sequencing
    Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jorunn Pauline Cavanagh, Maria Pain, Fatemeh Askarian, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Ilona Urbarova, Sun Nyunt Wai et al.:
    Comparative exoproteome profiling of an invasive and a commensal Staphylococcus haemolyticus isolate
    Journal of Proteomics 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ilona Urbarova, Bård Ove Karlsen, Siri Okkenhaug, Ole Morten Seternes, Steinar Johansen, Åse Emblem :
    Digital Marine Bioprospecting: Mining New Neurotoxin Drug Candidates from the Transcriptomes of Cold-Water Sea Anemones
    Marine Drugs 2012 ARKIV / DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Ilona Halva Urbarova, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Robin Mjelle, Erna Elise Paulsen, Tom Dønnem et al.:
    Increased levels of mRNAs and miRNAs associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
    2022
  • Ilona Urbarova :
    Climate Change Causes Molecular-Level Stress Responses
    Science Trends 2019 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / OMTALE
  • Sabin Bhandari, Ruomei Li, Ingelin Kyrrestad, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Ilona Urbarova, Bård Smedsrød et al.:
    Effect of glucocorticoids on liver sinusoidal endothelial cells in vitro
    2019
  • Ashraful Islam, Vegard Fossum, Ann Kristin Hansen, Ilona Urbarova, Gunnar Knutsen, Inigo Zubiavrre Martinez :
    In vitro chondrogenic potency of surplus chondrocytes from ACI does not predict short-term clinical outcomes.
    2018
  • Ruomei Li, Jaione Simon-Santamaria, Sabin Bhandari, Jack-Ansgar Bruun, Ilona Urbarova, Bård Smedsrød et al.:
    Phenotypic changes in rat liver sinusoidal endothelial cells during early stages of in vitro culture
    2017
  • Ilona Urbarova :
    Exploring genomes and transcriptomes of cold-adapted anthozoans
    2013

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