Research Groups

The K.G. Jebsen Colorectal Cancer Research Centre was officially opened on the 28th of August 2014 by the chair of the Jebsen Foundation’s board of directors, Hans Peter Jebsen. Prof. Ragnhild A. Lothe leads the Centre together with the interdisciplinary PI team consisting of Prof. Arild Nesbakken, Prof. Guro E. Lind, Dr. Marianne G. Guren, and Prof. Rolf I. Skotheim.

The centre has five Principal Investigators:

Centre Leader, Prof. Ragnhild A. Lothe, Department of Molecular Oncology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital (OUH) and Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo (UiO)
Prof. Guro E. Lind, Department of Molecular Oncology, Institute for Cancer Research, OUH
Prof. Arild Nesbakken, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, OUH and Institute for Clinical Medicine, UiO
Dr. Rolf I. Skotheim, Department of Molecular Oncology, Institute for Cancer Research, OUH
Dr. Marianne G. Guren, Department of Oncology, OUH

Latest publications

Burocziova et al. 2019. Truncated PPM1D impairs stem cell response to genotoxic stress and promotes growth of APC-deficient tumors in the mouse colon. Cell Death. Dis. 10(11): 818
Eilertsen et al. 2019. Technical differences between sequencing and microarray platforms impact transcriptomic subtyping of colorectal cancer. Cancer Lett. [Epub ahead of print] Lopes et al. 2019. Digital image analysis of multiplex fluorescence IHC in colorectal cancer recognizes the prognostic value of CDX2 and its negative correlation with SOX2. Lab. Invest. [Epub ahead of print] Dienstmann et al. 2019. Relative contribution of clinicopathological variables, genomic markers, transcriptomic subtyping and microenvironment features for outcome prediction in stage II/III colorectal cancer. Ann. Oncol. [Epub ahead of print] Totland et al. 2019. Regulation of gap junction intercellular communication by connexin ubiquitination: physiological and pathophysiological implications. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. [Epub ahead of print] All publications