Kreft og kreftbehandling

Photo: Kjetil Rydland
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Jeanette Hammer Andersen

Leder, Marbio
Unit: The Norwegian College of Fishery Science

Research areas:

marin bioprospektering, bioaktivitetstesting og identifisering av nye naturstoff som kan bli ny medisin

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Espen Holst Hansen

Nestleder forskning og professor
Unit: The Norwegian College of Fishery Science

Research areas:

Mitt ansvarsområde i Marbio er kjemisk karakterisering av bioaktive naturstoffer fra arktiske planter, dyr og mikroorganismer. Jeg jobber hovedsaklig med følgende teknikker:

  • Massespektrometri (MS)
  • Kromatografi
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Terje Johansen

Professor
Unit: Autophagy Research Group

Research areas:

Autofagi, celle signalering og genregulering med relevans for kreft,nevrodegenererende sykdommer og forsvar mot intracellulære infeksjoner.

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Erik Knutsen

Førsteamanuensis
Unit: Department of Medical Biology

Research areas:

I’m currently leading a single cell RNA-sequencing project with the aim of subclassifying breast cancer cell present in the lymph nodes for better personalized diagnosis and treatment.

The project will assess the transcriptional changes in breast cancer cells as they are subjected to the microenvironment of the lymph nodes, and will examine the impact of this new microenvironment on epithelial mesenchymal transition, cancer stem cells, and risk of metastasis, recurrence, and dormancy. The project combines the use of fresh patient samples, bioinformatics, and in vivo and in vitro models.

I have an ambition to better diagnosis for breast cancer patients to prevent overtreatment with serious side effects, to generate new basic knowledge on metastasis, and to find new targets for prevention of metastasis. I further want to tackle the problem of tumor dormancy, as this is one of the great challenges when it comes to relapse and metastasis.

I believe solving the problems of metastasis and tumor dormancy can only be reached by a strong collaboration between clinicians/ oncologists, bioinformaticians, and molecular biologists, and I have therefore established such collaborations locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Lill-Tove Rasmussen Busund

Professor/overlege i patologi
Unit: Department of Medical Biology

Research areas:

Biomarkører i kreftsvulster og blod som kan gi informasjon om framtidig kreftsykdom, hvilken type kreftsykdom, prognose av kreftsykdom og hvilken behandling som kan gi effekt. 

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Ole Morten Seternes

Gruppeleder for forskningsgruppen Cellesignalering og målrettet terapi
Unit: Cell Signaling and Targeted Therapy

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Arne O. Smalås

Dekan
Unit: Faculty of Science and Technology

arne.smalas@uit.no +4777644070
Research areas:
  • Makromolekylers struktur og funksjon
  • Det molekylære opphav til enzymers kuldeadaptasjon
  • Utvikling av enzymer for anvendelse
  • Bioprospektering
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Elisabete Weiderpass

Professor i kreftepidemiologi
Unit: Department of Community Medicine

Research areas:

My research interest is mainly on etiological factors in female cancers. In the project "Women's Lifestyle and Health" we try to identify potentially modifiable risk factors for cancers of the breast, ovarian, endometrium, colorectum and skin, as well as for cardiovascular diseases (myocardial infarction, stroke) and overall mortality. I am also interested in factors affecting cancer survival. I coordinate the Ugandan collaboration on infections diseases and cancer, where we are studying the role of infectious agents such as HIV, human papilloma viruses (HPV), and EBV in the etiology of cancer of the cervix uteri, conjunctiva, and Burkitt’s Lymphoma, hormones and cancer, cancer research in developing countries.

  • Etiological and prognostic cancer research
  • Cancer in low-income countries
  • Infections and cancer
  • Lifestyle and cancer
  • Women and cancer
fuf-kom-formidling@hjelp.uit.no