About
Adjunct Professor Marius Trøseid is also a senior consultant in infectious diseases and clinical immunology at Oslo University Hospital and leading a national research network on clinical microbiota science (Microbiota).
They have developed an in house sequencing-based microbiota-profiling pipeline including bioinformatics and applied it in multiple conditions and study designs, including RCTs in chronic infections and inflammatory diseases.
Trøseid has been involved in several RCTs as PI or co-PI, including interventions with statins, probiotics, antibiotics and life style interventions.
Ongoing projects
- CoMicS (Copenhagen-Oslo HIV Comorbidity and Microbiota Study) - The largest microbiota study in HIV-infected individuals to date
- SCRATCH consortium (Microbiota-based SCReening of Anal Cancer in HIV-infected individuals) - EU funded
- GutHeart trial (RCT of gut microbiota intervention in heart failure) - First-in-man multi center
Clinical and scientific focus
More recently, the clinical and scientific focus has shifted to also include COVID-19, as part of the Nordic branch of the WHO solidarity trial, as coordinator of the national reference group on COVID-19 treatment in Norway and as co-applicant for the Horizon 2020 consortium EU-RESPONSE (European Research and Preparedness Network for Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases).
Trøseid is now chief investigator of the novel pan-European adaptive platform trial for COVID and emerging pandemics, EU SolidAct, set up to run phase II and phase III trials in around 15 European countries.