Public Defence

Master Hanne Bjørg Slettahjell at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Managing Nutritional Risks in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: From Malnutrition to Obesity Prevention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Julie Marie Lengle at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Healthy and environmentally sustainable diets for Norway: current patterns and future scenarios The NOR-Eden Project” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Alberto Lopez Sanchez at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Machine learning on multi-modal data” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Arja Katrina Lea Arnesen Løchen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Identification and characterisation of autophagy regulators in health and disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Inger Anine Aunan at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Molecular Mechanisms Preserving Skeletal Muscle Integrity and Capacity to Resist Cancer Cell Colonization” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Mari Bergstøl Gornitzka at Insitute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Resolving the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus; Methodological advances, genetic diversity, and constant region bias in multiple sclerosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Ronnie Babigumira at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Cohort Profiling, Data Harmonization and Epidemiological Analysis of Benzene Exposure and Cancer Risk in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers Cohort” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Daria Evensen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Revealing cellular and molecular mechanisms of human aortic valve calcification” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Rut Anne Thomassen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Effect of prebiotics in children with intestinal failure. Gut feeling or evidence-based practice?” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Amir Aamodt Kazemi at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables Affecting the Choice of a Categorical Treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Shoshy Alam Brinch at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Tankyrase inhibition of WNT/β-catenin and YAP signaling in cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis” for the degree of Dr. Philos. (Doctor Philosophiae).

Cand.med. Ingvild Strand Hovland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Health care professionals’ experiences and psychological distress of working in intensive care units during COVID-19 A national longitudinal mixed-method study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Karin Pleym at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Clinical and health economic effects of an in-hospital nurse-led smoking cessation intervention after atherosclerotic vascular disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Wei Hai Deng at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Targeting fatigue, mental health, and quality of life through latent profiles and physical activity interventions in childhood and young adult cancer survivors” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Fikirte Debebe Zegeye at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Occupational exposure and associated health effects among workers in the shrimp processing industry” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc. Gerharda Maria Timmer at Insitute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Dynamic regulation of nuclear envelope integrity: From molecular mechanisms to cell fate” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Kim Lindland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Preclinical Development of ²¹²Pb Antibody Therapeutics for Cavitary Cancers” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Siddhartha Das at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Environmental exposures and gene expression: Evidence from in vitro and population-based studies” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Andre Sevenius Nilsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Consciousness When Is It Present and How Would We Know? Testing Measures and Assumptions for Detecting Consciousness Across States and Substrates” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MBio Lauren Sophie Johnson at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Lipid binding proteins in the regulation of autophagy and disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Ingrid Engebretsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Treatment patterns and adherence to lipid lowering drugs in Norway” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Mario Fernández de la Puebla at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Astrocytic Calcium Dynamics: Mechanisms and Impacts on Neurons” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Anette Ålykkja at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Life after treatment and follow-up care needs of pediatric brain tumor survivors. Developing and evaluating a nurse-led transition to adult care intervention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).