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Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Youxian Li, receives NOK eight million through the Research Council's program Research project for young talents (FRIPRO). In his project, Li aims to understand how cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) mediate cell death in cancer.
Harald Stenmark receives the award for his pioneering research in the field of cancer. He has particularly focused on proteins that are central to cell division and to the regulation of the cells' sorting system. Both these processes are critical to understand the cellular events underlying cancer.
Professor Johanna Olweus has been selected for the final of the Cancer Grand Challenges as part of a global research team. If successful, the team hopes to contribute in giving cancer patients new therapies.
In her new project, FINALphagy, Knævelsrud will study how autophagy is turned off in the body. One of the aims of her research is that it should be applicable in the development of new forms of cancer treatment.
The name of the new centre is the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Cardiac Biomarkers. The centre's research will contribute to increased knowledge about cardiac injury and heart failure. It will be led by Professor Torbjørn Omland and be located at the Institute of Clinical Medicine’s campus at Akershus University Hospital.
Therese Sørlie will lead the project in which she will investigate pre-invasive breast cancer stages where the milk ducts are filled with cancer cells, but these have not yet spread into surrounding breast tissue. The grant from the Norwegian Cancer Society is just under 6 million NOK.
The funding goes to two new research projects that will contribute to increased knowledge about early stages of cancer development and new forms of cancer treatment.
Professor Stein Kaasa and international partners are among the shortlisted candidates for the Cancer Grand Challenges awards.
The research group is an interdisciplinary forum that perform clinical trials and translational research on pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cysts.