Bilde av Berge, Gerd
Bilde av Berge, Gerd
Associate professor Department of Medical Biology gerd.berge@uit.no +4777644648 You can find me here

Gerd Berge


Job description

Associate professor and study program leader for the master's in biomedicine

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.


  • 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
    Frontiers in Oncology 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Journal of Reproductive Immunology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Frontiers in Pharmacology 30. March 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Scientific Reports 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Pharmaceutics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy 2014 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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, 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
  • Eirik André Lindeløff Rustad, Stine Figenschau, gerd Berge, Natasa Skalko Basnet :
    Role of liposomal PEGylation on protein corona formation and cellular uptake mechanisms
    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
  • 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
  • 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

    Cancer vaccines

    Drug development in cancer treatment

    Teaching

    Course leader:

    MBI-3012: Advanced methods in experimental biomedicine, 30 stp.

    MBI-3911: Masterthesis in Biomedicine, 60stp.

    ERN-2013: Immunology, pharmacology, epigenetics and microbiology, 7 stp.

    Teacher:

    Basic chemistry (TPL-1004Biomedical basic subjects), 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)

     


    Member of research group