New Master’s Graduate – Marte Kristensen

A warm congratulations to Marte Kristensen, who has excellently presented and defended her master’s thesis entitled “Generation and Characterisation of Cell Lines with Controlled Expression of Full-Length p53 Isoforms” in the final examination of her master’s degree. The presentation and examination took place on Thursday 5th March at the Inkubatoren (rom 439C1), Thormøhlensgt. 55, Bioblokken, 4th READ MORE

PhD Dissertation – New PhD

“Ny kunnskap om blodkreft kan gi mer treffsikker behandling” Inga Kirstine Flaaten Motzfeldt is defending on February 19th 2026 for PhD. degree at the Universitetet of Bergen, with the thesis “Exploration of Disease Mechanisms and Targeted Therapies in Acute Myeloid Leukemia”. The defense is taking place at 12:15–15:00 Location: HUS – BB-bygget, Auditorium 1 The READ MORE

Poster Prize award: Nicolas Mattias Del Rio Fuenzalida

Congratulations to Nicolas who won the poster prize (2nd place) at the 20th Annual Research Presentations hold by the University of Bergen at Sentralblokka, Haukeland University Hospital, 28–30 January 2026. Poster: Myeloid-Specific Immunomodulatory Profiles Predict Relapse in Patients With Non-metastatic Proximal Colon Cancer. Nicolas Mattias Del Rio Fuenzalida, Kristin Bentung Lygre, Rakel Brendsdal Forthun, Reidun Kristin Kopperud, Pål Tore READ MORE

Grant award: The Norwegian Cancer Society

Luiza Ghila and her team in Cell Fate Lab has been awarded funding from The Norwegian Cancer Society’s call “Researcher projects 2025” for the research project “Mapping the bladder tumour immune microenvironment by single cell technologies“. More information is found here: https://chera.w.uib.no/2025/12/grant-award-the-norwegian-cancer-society/