I had recently the great pleasure to contribute to a study led by Dr. Seung Kim (Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine) aiming for the development of B6 RIP-DTR mice, an immunocompetent line…
For the past five years, our collaborator Helge Ræder and us showed that human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) provide an excellent tool for disease modelling. However, in vitro differentiation is highly sensitive to culture conditions. By re-creating a spatial…
For the past year I was involved in building up an application for a Norwegian Centre of excellence focused on investigating distinct and overlapping diabetes mechanisms all-along different life stages. Our initial application was selected in Phase 1 that allowed…
A detailed study into alpha-cells transcriptional changes upon massive ablation of beta-cells carried out in collaboration with Dr. Santiago Rodríguez-Seguí and Prof. Pedro Herrera groups was published today, and we show that: α-cells undergo stage-specific transcriptional changes 5- and 15-days…
I had recently the great pleasure to contribute to a collaboration study led by Dr. Charna Dibner (from the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Hypertension and Nutrition, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) deciphering the…
We are very happy to be partners on a new research project financed under the EEA and Norway Grants scheme promoting research collaboration between Romania and Norway. Our collaborator, Dr. Ana Vacaru from the Institute for Cellular Biology and Pathology…
What is NCMM? Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM) is an international biomedical research centre, with the overall objective of translating basic medical research into clinical practice. NCMM is a part of UiO’s interdiciplinary focus on life sciences. In the…