Public Defence - Page 2

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).

M.Sc. Camilla Hagen Blixhavn at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Organising and integrating heterogeneous experimental murine brain data by anatomical location” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Lauritz Kennedy at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The lactate receptor Hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 1 (HCAR1) in brain development, exercise, and neonatal disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Mona Nilsson at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Patient-reported adverse health outcomes and shared decision making in Norwegian prostate cancer patients” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc. Lamprini Veneti at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Norway, February 2020- January 2022. Assessment of the disease severity, vaccine effectiveness and risk of reinfection using national registry data.” for the degree of Dr.Philos (Doctor Philosophiae).

M.Sc. Tonje Talsnes Stava at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Genetic testing in hereditary heart disease, severity and implications for screening” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Elna Hamilton Larsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “End of Treatment: What Now? Ensuring a good transition from active treatment to follow-up care for adolescents with cancer” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Anette Kathinka Dahl at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “BEACH domain containing proteins; structure, function, and localization” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Jonas Pivoriunas at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Evaluation of a novel blood test to monitor statin treatment in cardiovascular disease prevention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Paul Kakwangire at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Effects of a maternal education intervention on child development and maternal depression: Long-term follow-up of a cluster-randomized trial in rural Uganda” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Negar Zohoorian Izadpanah at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Assessing putative novel roles of AQP4 in brain” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Maria Fossli at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Dietary intake and interventions for weight loss and increased breastfeeding in postpartum women with overweight and obesity” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Ninni Olafsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in cancer cell proliferation, tumour growth and type I interferon signalling” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Sarah Jai Hazell Pickering at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “White and beige adipogenesis: Transcriptomic and epigenetic insights into human adipocyte plasticity” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Aminata Shamit Koroma at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Integrated Nutritional and Healthcare Interventions to Combat Maternal Undernutrition and Enhance Infant Birth Outcomes in Resource-Limited Rural Sierra Leone” for the degree of Dr.Philos (Doctor Philosophiae).

M.Sc. Andrea Mathisen Bratsberg at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “On variable selection in high-dimensional omics data in the presence of latent variables” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

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).

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. Chiara Veroni at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The interplays between lipids, autophagy and lysosomes” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Gernot Walter Ernst at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Heart rate variability as a prognostic factor in patients with hip fractures” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Anja Katrin Johansen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Factors influencing the risk of cardiovascular disease in children with genetically confirmed heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Sophie Emilie Bresson at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Mechanistic insights into the impact of persistent organic pollutants on pancreatic beta-cell function and the role of Nr1i2 in intestinal homeostasis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Martin Øvsthus at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Architecture of mouse brain subcortical networks Unraveling three-dimensional topographical distribution patterns by spatial integration of experimental tract-tracing data” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Ingrid Wilhelmsen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Characterization of human pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatic stellate cells for in vitro disease modeling” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).