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February edition of the NCMM Newsletter.

Congratulations to NCMM Group Leader, Anthony Mathelier, who has been successful with an application for event support from UiO:Life Science. 

NCMM’s Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, addressed guests at day two of the Oslo Life Science Conference, talking about the future in personalized cancer therapy.

A closer look at NCMM's recent annual Network Meeting at Oslo Science Park

NCMM’s Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, has been interviewed by the University of Oslo’s flagship science and technology news outlet, Titan.uio.no, ahead of his appearance at the Oslo Life Science Conference on the 16 February.

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Nikolina Sekulic has received a prestigious Young Talent award from the Research Council of Norway for her work in chromatin biology.

NCMM and EATRIS Norway have been awarded a grant from the Helse-EU programme at the Research Council of Norway to recruit an EATRIS (European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine) Coordinator.

The merger between Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) and the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo (BiO) formally came into effect on 2 January 2017.

We congratulate NCMM Director Kjetil Taskén on receiving King Olav V Price for Cancer Research 2016 during a ceremony at the University of Oslo on June 6.

Bains' discovery that patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer while on aspirin have better survival rate than others, is published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

We congratulate NCMM and BiO Director Kjetil Taskén on receiving King Olav V Price for Cancer Research 2016.

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.

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

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

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".

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.

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.