Disputaser - Side 3

M.Sc. Haifeng Xu at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Prediction of clinical outcomes for precision oncology using multi-omics data and machine learning” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Master Erik Kristoffer Arnesen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Diet, serum lipids, and cardiovascular disease – from fatty acids to foods: Epidemiological aspects” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Even Moa Myklebust at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Statistical modeling of cell population dynamics for personalized cancer medicine” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Torunn Heggland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Enhancing the understanding of key mammography screening outcomes using statistical modelling and Norwegian data” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Sara Nafisi at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Drug repurposing: new options for prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Atanaska Ivanova Doncheva at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Serglycin, perilipin 2 and perilipin 4 in obesity-related lipid metabolism and inflammation” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Emilie Rylund Glesaaen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 1 (HCAR1) as a potential target following neonatal hypoxia ischemia” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Andreas Sigstad Lande at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The role of the retrosplenial cortex in landmark encoding” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Nicholas James Hagger-Vaughan at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Mechanisms and modulation of plateau potentials in the neocortex and hippocampus” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Dena Treider Alavi at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Body composition in colorectal cancer patients - Validation of methods, new approaches using artificial intelligence, and the effect of a one-year dietary intervention” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Anna Christina Garvert at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Space, time and objects in the retrosplenial cortex” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Kristin Stensland Torgersen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Personality, depression and cardiovascular risk - shared genetic susceptibility and prognosis of coronary heart disease” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Brian Christopher Gilmour at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “β2, or not β2: that is the question. Expanding the SH2D2A-interactome to adhesion & β-integrins using a combined bioinformatic & wet-lab approach” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Maryan Mohamed Ali at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Prevention of graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic stem cell transplantation for adult hematological malignancy” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Chencheng Wang at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Human pluripotent stem cell-derived islet cells for diabetes modelling and drug testing” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Nita Kaupang Shala at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Occupational exposures and cancer of the bladder, kidney, and pleura in Norwegian offshore petroleum workers” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Nadia Skauli at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Factors regulating the expression and perivascular localization of Aquaporin-4 and its isoforms” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MPH Shreeshti Uchai at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Adiposity measures and pre-frailty/frailty among community-dwelling older adults: The Tromsø Study 1994–2016” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Henriette Solberg Jæger at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “The Use of Biomarkers to Differentiate Acute Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Emilie Eliseussen Ødegaard at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Rank-based Bayesian methods for high-dimensional data in transcriptomic analyses” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Håvard Ringsevjen at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Pre- and postsynaptic organization of synaptic regulatory proteins” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MD Siri Asheim Eikeland at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Late effects in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors after contemporary risk-adapted treatment” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

M.Sc. Dina Moxness Konglevoll at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Diet and Frailty in Norwegian Older Adults - The Tromsø Study” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MSc Justyna Maria Polak at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Intrathecal B cells in multiple sclerosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).