2015

This conference on clinical cancer genomics was organized on March 11-12 2015. NCMM Director Kjetil Tasken and NCMM group leader Ian Mills participated in panel discussions.

NCMM is seeking outstanding candidates for new Associate Investigators in an open call with deadline September 1.

FIMM Director Olli Kallioniemi has been appointed director of the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Sweden and will start in this position in September, 2015. Olli Kallioniemi will join SciLifeLab as a professor at Karolinska Institutet and continue as a part-time Research Director at FIMM. NCMM congratulates Olli Kallioniemi to the appointment.

NCMM as a national center offers a mechanism for Young Associate Investigators and presently has an open call with application deadline September 1.

The NCMM Board appoints 5 new Associate Investigators and 7 new Young Associate Investigators.

The Norwegian Research Council today published the results of its latest call for new research infrastructures under the National Infrastructure programme. In total 1.3 billion NOK is allocated to new infrastructure investments. One of the applications invited for contract negotiations is NOR-OPENSCREEN, a distributed infrastructure for chemical biology and marine bioprospecting with the Universities of Oslo, Tromsø, Bergen and SINTEF (Trondheim) as partners.

The 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Meeting took place in Chicago on May 29 - June 2. This Annual Meeting brings together 30,000 oncology professionals from around the world. On May 30 NCMM PhD fellow Simer Bains gave an oral presentation entitled "Impact of aspirin as secondary prevention in an unselected cohort of 25 644 patients with colorectal cancer: A population-based study".