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Siv.ing./M.Sc. Stig Støa ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Applications.

M.Sc. Ane Hansen Kjenseth ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Posttranslational modification of the tumor suppressor protein connexin43 – implications for cell communication and cancer.

Cand.med. Grethe Månum ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Adults with spastic cerebral palsy. Studies on effects of botulinum toxin A, walking function and gait analysis outcomes.

Cand.med. Mari Bunkholt Elstrand ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Malignant effusions in advanced ovarian carcinoma – Chemotherapy resistance and surgical treatment of stage IV disease.

Cand.med. Sissi Espetvedt Finstad ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Body Composition, Estradiol, Insulin and Breast Cancer.

Cand.psychol. Tone Hellvin ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Neurocognition and social functioning in bipolar disorder at first treatment contact.

Cand.med. Lena Lande Wekre ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): A population-based study of osteogenesis imperfecta in adults

Fagområde: Farmakologi

Cand.med. Jon Riise ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Inotropic effects of prostaglandins in ventricular myocardium.

Fagområde: Patient-provider communication

Cand.scient. Lena Heyn ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Improving communication in cancer care - a quasi-experimental study testing the effects of an interactive tailored patient assessment on communication between patients and physicians and nurses.

M.Sc. Stine Margarethe Biong ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Common genetic variation and mammographic density: risk factors for breast cancer.

Master i psykologi Anne Bukten ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Criminal convictions among patients in opioid maintenance treatment in Norway. A national cohort study.

M.Sc. Trine Baur Opstad ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Selected polymorphisms in coronary artery disease. Influence on gene expression and circulating levels of atherothrombotic risk markers.

Cand.med. Eva Sigstad ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Thyroid tumors – A modern diagnostic approach improves the management of thyroid cancer patients.

Cand.med. Kristoffer Watten Brudvik ved Bioteknologisenteret vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Tumor biology and immunology of colorectal cancer - Studies of prostaglandin E2 signaling versus clinical outcome in disease models and patients with metastatic disease

Cand.med. Berte Grimsmo Bøe ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Bone remodelling and migration after insertion of femoral stems with different surface coatings. Clinical and experimental studies.

Fagområde: Molekylærbiologi

Siv.ing. Hanne Korvald ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Repair of alkylation induced DNA damage in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

M.Sc. Cathinka Halle ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Biomarkers in chemoradiotherapy of cervical cancer: Focus on EGFR and DCE-MR imaging

Cand.med. Ajmal Hussain ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Long term mental health effects of the 2004 tsunami – a prospective study of Norwegian tourists exposed to the disaster.

Cand.med. Anne Benedicte Skirbekk ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Neurodevelopmental problems in a clinical sample of children with anxiety disorders.

Fagområde: Radiologi

Cand.med. Trond Mogens Aaløkken ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): High Resolution Computed Tomography of Interstitial Lung Disease.

Fagområde: Diabetes og nefrologi

Cand.med. Tone Gretland Valderhaug ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): New-onset diabetes after renal transplantation: Diagnosis, incidence, and long-term effect on patient survival.

Cand.med. Per-Henrik Randsborg ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Fractures in Children; Aspects on health service, epidemiology and risk factors.

Fagområde: Molekylærbiologi

Siv.ing. Line Nilsen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Repair of AP sites in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Cand.med. Jon Sponheim ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Interleukin-33 in inflammation and wound repair - an experimental study with special reference to endothelial cells and myofibroblasts.

Fagområde: Radiologi

Cand.med. Trygve Syversveen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Diagnostic ultrasound in the evaluation of complications after kidney transplantation.

Cand.med. Anne Wæhre ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Chemokines in cardiac remodelling and heart failure, and their role in regulation of small leucine-rich proteoglycans in the extracellular matrix.

Cand.med. Helge Rørvik Røsjø ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): The granin protein family in cardiac disease.

Cand.med. Linda Björk Helgadóttir ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Intrauterine fetal death: classification and risk factors. A case-control study of sociodemographic, clinical and thrombophilic risk factors.

Cand.med. Inger Elisabeth Ellingsen Husebye ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Intramedullary reaming and nailing of femoral shaft fractures. A study on the procedure-related inflammatory- and cardiopulmonary responses.

Cand.med. Emil Kostovski ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Muscle metabolism, diurnal androgenic axis activity and hemostatic regulation of importance to health after cervical spinal cord injuries.

Cand.med. Per Selnes ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Understanding early events in Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis.

Cand.med. Lars Borgen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Radiation doses in medical imaging: Historical development, current radiation knowledge and future optimizing tools.

Cand.san. Anne Lund ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Lifestyle intervention for older adults in rehabilitation after stroke: Development, implementation and evaluation.

Master of Technology Eldrid Borgan ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Transcriptomics and metabolomics of breast cancer to improve the understanding of disease mechanisms and treatment response.

Fagområde: Immunologi

Cand.med. Michael Bodd ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Gluten-reactive CD4⁺ T cells in celiac disease.

Cand.med. Jan-Erik Berdal ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Airway colonization, pathogenesis and prognosis in mechanically ventilated patients.

Fagområde: Immunologi

Cand.med. Andrey Sokolov ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): The role of the complement system in determining the biocompatibility of candidate materials for medical implantable devices.

Cand.psychol. Sofie Ragnhild Aminoff ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Emotion processing in bipolar disorder and its relationship to neurocognitive and clinical characteristics.

Cand.med. Aasne Fenne Hoksrud ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Treatment in patients with patellar tendinopathy.

M.Sc. Ida Gjervold Lunde ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Molecular mechanisms of heart failure;  Nuclear Factor of Activated T-cell (NFAT) signaling in myocardial hypertrophy and dysfunction.

M.Sc. Trevor Clancy ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Unraveling the complexity of protein networks. Application in tumor immunity.

Cand.med. Kjetil Gorseth Ringdal ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Developing a common, international template for documenting and reporting data from major trauma patients. A proposed core dataset and evaluations of its feasibility and reliability.

Fagområde: Ortopedi

Cand.med. Sigurd Liavaag ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Acute primary traumatic shoulder dislocation. Epidemiology, lesions and treatment.

Cand.med. Anne Kristine Gulsvik ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Age, modifiable risk factors, and mortality. A 42 years prospective follow-up study in a general population.

Humanbiolog Maren Bakkebø ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Transforming growth factor β superfamily signaling and its role in B-cell lymphoma.

Cand.med. Ida Kristin Haugen ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): The Reliability and Validity of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Hand Osteoarthritis.

Fagområde: Immunologi

M.Sc. Luka Mesin ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Plasma cells of the human small intestine.

Cand.med. Anne Beate Helseth Udal ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Beyond diagnoses: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder versus early onset bipolar disorder. A study of neurological variety behind symptoms

Cand.med. Ole Magne Kalgaard ved Institutt for klinisk medisin vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor): Erythromelalgia: Clinical aspects, pathology and therapy