SNSF Sinergia grant awarded to research groups in Switzerland and Norway to identify novel treatment strategies for children with aggressive brain tumours.
Larissa will be working closely with NCMM's administrative team, and will also take over the Director's PA duties from Berit Barkley, who retired from NCMM in August 2020.
Study initiated by the Morth Group at NCMM, and completed at DTU Bioengineering, has enabled researchers to map how coliform bacteria attach to the intestinal wall giving hope for development of new treatments.
26 new NCMM Associate Investigators appointed after a fifth call, extending the network to include 47 scientists from all over Norway
A warm welcome to the three new researchers who joined NCMM in October and November 2020.
Research into evolutionary origins and primitive cell division published
Funding will enable further investigation of sarcoma samples drawn from the NoSarC biobank
NCMM welcomed two new staff members in October: Harold Gutch, Senior Engineer, IT and Pavel Kopcil, PhD student, Haapaniemi Group
Ahmad Ali Ahmad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sekulic Group at NCMM. He is currently spending time in the group of Dr. Linda Sandblad, director of the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM), based at Umeå University.
Professor Charpentier was one of the first young group leaders recruited to NCMM’s Swedish sister centre, the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) in 2009.
NCMM is pleased to announce that Judith Zaugg, EMBL Heidelberg, has been appointed as a member of NCMM's SAB (Scientific Advisory Board)
Article 'CENP-A nucleosome—a chromatin-embedded pedestal for the centromere: lessons learned from structural biology' published in the journal Essays in Biochemistry
Swedish Nordic EMBL node, MIMS, hosts the 10th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership meeting from Umeå, Sweden.
Dr. Edna Xian Hu joined NCMM in September 2020. She has a PhD from the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.
Across the Nordic EMBL Partnership, a wide range of projects are underway to help tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Karen-Marie joined NCMM in September 2020. Previously she worked at Oslo's Radium Hospital, both as a researcher and as a health and safety representative.
Publication from the Gözen group in the journal Small is featured on Advanced Science News
Marieke Kuijjer and Anthony Mathelier awarded funding as part of the ‘Rosa sløfe’ (Pink Ribbon) campaign
Dr Kuijjer's article, 'Predicting Evolution Using Cell State Dynamics', examines research using state transitions to model cancer development and progression. The group has also recently published in the journals Cell Reports and Bioinformatics.
Hsieh joined the Kuijjer group as a PhD student in May 2019. His current project involves developing and improving network inference tools.
Research published in the leading multidisciplinary journal, Small
From Scientific Discovery to Personalised Medicine: EATRIS 2019 annual report
Paula Lindner defended her PhD on 9 June 2020. Her PhD was a joint project between NCMM, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and DANDRITE (the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Aarhus), Aarhus University.
NCMM is now seeking outstanding candidates for both senior and early-career NCMM Associate Investigators. Deadline: 25 August 2020.
Some activities are now able to re-start at NCMM, with the hope that the Centre will continue to scale up operations in June.