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Month: December 2021
Studies on immune tumour microenvironment in colorectal cancer
Studies on immune tumour microenvironment in colorectal cancer (PI Diana Domanska and Frode Jahnsen)
The use of immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment by modulating immune responses against tumours. The first generation of antibody-based immunotherapies – immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) –
Frode Jahnsen (Group leader)

Frode is professor of medicine at the University of Oslo and senior consultant in clinical gastrointestinal pathology. He obtained his PhD in immunology under the supervision of Prof. Per Brandtzæg’s lab in 1997. He did a postdoc partly in the
Tuva Høst Brunsell (Postdoc)

Tuva started in January 2021 in a shared position as a pathologist in training and a postdoc in the lab. After completing her medical studies and internship she obtained a PhD focusing on the genomics of colorectal liver metastases at
Espen Bækkevold (Researcher)

Espen is molecular cell biologist and has a PhD in immunology from the University of Oslo. Following a postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital and a researcher appointment at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, he joined
Raquel Bartolome Casado (Postdoc)

Raquel is interested in studying the immune cells that are lodged in the human intestinal mucosa at single-cell resolution. After obtaining her degree in Biotechnology at the University of Salamanca (Spain), Raquel worked at the Cancer Research Center in Salamanca
Diana Domanska (Researcher)

Diana is a bioinformatician and matematician. She received her PhD in computer science from University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) in 2014. After PhD, she did her postdoc at the University in Oslo in Biomedical Informatics. She worked on statistical
Kjersti Thorvaldsen Hagen (Laboratory Scientist)

Kjersti is a biomedical laboratory scientist from Oslo Metropolitan University, and Kjersti joined the lab in 2008. Her main expertise is immunohistochemistry- and immunofluorescence methods. She also has genuine interests in molecular biology, especially in the working methods in single
Hanna Johannessen (PhD student)

Hanna joined the lab in February 2021 after completing her medical studies at the University of Oslo. Hanna is interested in the development of the mucosal immune system in the gut and in her PhD project she studies the relationship
Sol Lim (Postdoc)

Sol is a postdoc currently based in Inouye lab, department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. She received her BSc in Mathematics, MSc in Interdisciplinary program in Cognitive Sciences, and PhD in Computational Neuroscience from Seoul National