Disputaser - Side 20

M.Sc. Phong Khac Thanh Chau at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Thermoregulation and Pain Perception: Does the timing matter?” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Vegard Testad Svendsen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Psychiatric disorders, recidivism, and mortality among women with a history of incarceration in Norway: A registry-based national cohort study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Hil Ousland Vandeskog at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Out of text, out of mind? Exploring competing discourses of gendered vulnerabilities in Norwegian NGOs’ development aid through corpus-assisted discourse analysis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Ine Tracey Cockerell at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Evaluation of renal manifestations and treatment with mTOR-inhibitor everolimus for three indications in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Line Hustad Widing at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Psychotic disorder not otherwise specified – clinical characteristics and long-term outcomes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Ingvild Kristin Elisabeth Finckenhagen Farnes at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Optimizing the Diagnostic Work-Up and Treatment for Borderline Resectable - and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Insights from the NORPACT-2 Trial” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Pia Bålsrud at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The role of diet and inflammation on frailty in Norwegian, home-dwelling older adults” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Petra Hei Sun Larsson at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Physical fitness, physical activity and fatigue after stroke” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Eivind Heggernes Ask at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Integrative immune profiling and computational tools for prognostic biomarker discovery in lymphoma” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Lars Aastebøl Frøjd at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Insomnia in patients with coronary heart disease: A cross-sectional and prospective observational study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Jorun Tangen at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Disease manifestations and prognostication by imaging and echocardiography in covid-19 patients and in patients with myocardial infarction” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Erin Beate Bjørkeli at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Enhancing Glioma Diagnosis with Deep Learning and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Matthias Lippert at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Towards anatomic digital twins in structural heart disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Mirjam Podgorica at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Precision medicine in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with subtype classification for biomarker and therapeutic target discovery” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).