Institute News
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Hanne-Sofie Spenning Dahlback’s PhD thesis
Hanne-Sofie Spenning Dahlback at the Section for Cancer Cytogenetics defended her PhD thesis entitled “Cytogenetic and Molecular Cytogenetic Analyses of Brain Tumours” on Friday 10 February 2012.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Norway to bring cancer-gene tests to the clinic
Norway is set to become the first country to incorporate genome sequencing into its national health-care system. In its three-year pilot phase, the Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium will sequence the tumour genomes of 1,000 patients in the hope of influencing their treatments.
Our Institute Director at IMI, Håvard Danielsen, is partner at the Norwegian Cancer […]
Friday, January 6th, 2012
New version of software for DNA ploidy measurements
A brand new version of software for DNA ploidy measurements has been developed at IMI, and is now implemented in the clinical routine at Oslo University Hospital.
To read more about this software see “DNA ploidy in diagnostics”
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Research grants from the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority
On December 20th 2011 an announcement from the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority granted The Institute for Medical Informatics(IMI) 9 million NOK over the next 3 years.
IMI is dependant on external funding to improve our research activity. Funding applications were sent in september 2011, and we are happy to learn our efforts have been […]
Friday, October 14th, 2011
About Oncolex in GAP Connect
End September Håvard Danielsen, M.D., head of the Institute for Medical Informatics and Sigbjørn Smeland, Director of the Surgery-, Cancer Medicine and Transplantation Clinic at Oslo University Hospital, travelled to Houston to launch the cooperation with MD Anderson on an international version of Oncolex.
Following their visit “Gap Connect”, a weekly newsletter intended to engage and […]
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Oslo Science Fair 2011
Friday 23rd and saturday 24th of september the centre for Cancer Biomedicine(CCB) had a stand at the Oslo Science Fair (Forskningstorget 2011).
The stand aimed to visualize and explain how our research on colorectal cancer impacts diagnosis and treatment today, tomorrow and in the future.
Tarjei S. Hveem and Danial Sheikh represented the Institute for Medical Informatics. […]
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Article tagged with the label ‘Highly accessed’ .
Prof Eivind Hovig, head of our bioinformatics core facility, is co-authour on the article “Immunological network signatures of cancer progression and survival”, published in march 2011.
We are proud to learn that the article has been tagged with the label ‘Highly accessed’ on the biomedcentral.com website.
This graphic appears on journal table of contents and results […]
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Research funding applications submitted to the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority.
The Institute for medical Informatics is dependant on external funding to improve our research activity. This week we have submitted applications to the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority hoping to achieve funding.
This years announcement allows, among other, applications for PhD grants, Postdoctoral grants, Researcher grants, Extended researcher grants and Regional technological core facilities, and the […]
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Posters at the CCB seminar 2011
IMI is part of Centre for Cancer Biomedicine (CCB), appointed Centre for excellence in research by the Norwegian Research Council. The Centre for Cancer Biomedicin was assessed as ‘Exceptionally good’ at the midterm evaluation in spring 2011. (Click to read more)
At the CCB seminar 1st – 2nd september 2011 Håvard Danielsen will host a session […]
Monday, August 15th, 2011
Section for Applied Informatics’ new unit
The Institute for Medical Informatics is experiencing a further demand for interactive media solutions. The Interactive Media Unit will focus on applications and solutions for web and devices. Among them is the project kreftsykdommer.no
The unit is part of the Section for Applied Informatics and is lead by Jostein Eikanger.
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Succesful midterm evaluation of CCB
The Research Council of Norway has published the results of the midterm evaluation of eight Centres of Excellence after three and half years of activity. The Centre for Cancer Biomedicine (CCB), is assessed as ‘Exceptionally good’ and is secured funding for the next five years.
The midterm evaluation has been carried out by the Research Council […]
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Cancer Research Prize to Sverre Heim
Professor Sverre Heim has today recieved King Olav V’s Cancer Research Prize. Heim is one of the worlds leading experts within cancer cytogenetics, and head of the Section for Cancer Cytogenetics at the Institute for Medical Informatics.
For more information (in norwegian), please follow this link.
To see a video featuring Sverre Heim, please click here.
Friday, June 10th, 2011
IMI on facebook and twitter
IMI has it’s own facebook-organization-page at:
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Institute-for-Medical-Informatics-Medinfo
Please click in to “like” us, or send us a message.
The twitteraccount is available at; http://twitter.com/#!/MedinfoOslo
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Lecture at the CATAI/UNESCO meeting (Tenerife)
Room4 and the Institute for Medical Informatics were invited to give a lecture, in telepathology and the Interpath multiplatform virtual slide application at the CATAI/UNESCO meeting in Tenerife 31st of March 2011. Participants were given the opportunity to explore the new Interpath version on an iPad, iPhone or 4G Mobile Phones.
The application allows for a […]
Friday, April 16th, 2010
iOncolex available from Applestore
We are proud to present iOncolex; the first iPhone app for Cancer patients and loved ones to better understand and face the disease.
iOncolex is a new iPhone application aimed at helping cancer patients by providing up-to-date information on diagnosis, treatment, and follow up care. The application is based on Oncolex.no, an online encyclopedia about cancer […]