The e-health meeting place
Oslo Cancer Cluster will co-power the conference E-health in Norway (EHiN). – This is a natural continuation of the work we do in digitalisation, for a better understanding of cancer and better patient treatment, said Ketil Widerberg, General Manager of Oslo Cancer Cluster, at EHiN 2018. The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services (HOD) and ICT […]
Let us cooperate on precise health technologies
International cooperation is key to fulfilling our vision of making cancer treatments more precise, and giving the patients new treatments more quickly. This opinion piece is written by Ketil Widerberg, General Manager at Oslo Cancer Cluster. It was first published in the Norwegian newspaper Today’s Medicine, Dagens Medisin, 30 October 2018. The countries in Northern Europe have […]
– An idea needs to attract investors
Meet Thomas Andersson, our new Senior Advisor Business Development. How could he be of help to your startup company? — The most important thing I do is to get the startup companies rolling. Thomas Andersson, the new Senior Advisor for Business Development at Oslo Cancer Cluster and Oslo Cancer Cluster Incubator, looks dead serious as […]
T-cells and the Nobel Price
What does the Nobel Prize have to do with cancer research in Oslo Cancer Cluster? This year the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their work on unleashing the body’s immune system to attack cancer. This was a breakthrough that has led to an entirely new class […]
Prestigious partnership for Vaccibody
Oslo Cancer Cluster member Vaccibody is entering into a clinical collaboration with the American biopharmaceutical company Nektar Therapeutics. The aim of the collaboration is to explore positive effects from the combination of Vaccibody’s personalized cancer vaccine VB10.NEO and Nektar Therapeutics cancer drug NKTR-214. Pre-clinical results of the combination are very positive and the collaboration will […]
American tech and Norwegian health data
Combining country scale population data with world class computer systems and algorithms will push the boundaries of precision medicine. This is a story about the unique American-Norwegian collaboration that combines the best health data with the most powerful computers in a pioneer project run by Cancer Registry of Norway and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Data to screen […]
