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Organization

PRIMA is a Center of Excellence in Precision Immunotherapy funded by the Research Council of Norway. The Centre is hosted by the University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, with Oslo University Hospital as partner. 

The Centre includes 7 research groups from the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, located at Radiumhospitalet, Rikshospitalet and Oslo Science Park. 

Centre PIs

Management

Centre Board

Scientific advisory board

  • Prof. Ronald N. Germain, NIH Distinguished Investigator, Chief of Laboratory of Immune System Biology, Chief of Lymphocyte Biology Section, Director of Center for Advanced Tissue Imaging (CAT-I), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
  • Prof. Sine Hadrup, Head of Sections for Experimental & Translational Immunology, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  • Prof. Sten Linnarsson, Chair of the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

User Representative board

  • Tove Nakken, Deputy head of the Lymph Cancer Association in Norway
  • Olav Ljøsne, Head of the Board of the Norwegian Blood Cancer Society
  • Christine Schjerven, Lawyer, The Norwegian Cancer Society

Young Scientist Working Group

Visiting professors

Mentoring

PRIMA mentor program

Common mentor pool for CanCell and PRIMA

Alumni

  • Julia Zeun, Postdoc, Germany
  • Lina Wolfram, PhD student, Germany
  • Karen Martin, Postdoc, US
  • Morten Milek Nielsen, Researcher, Denmark
  • Yingqian Li, Technician, China
  • Mohammad Arabpour, Researcher, Iran
  • Miriam Podgorica, PhD student, Croatia
  • Hilde Schjerven, Associate professor, US
  • Kathrine Thuestad Isaksen, Researcher, Norway
  • Edina Szabo, Postdoc, Hungary
  • Riad Hajdarevic, Researcher,
  • Britt Olaug Lindestad, Technician, Norway
  • Thea Josefine Christensen, Research assistant, Norway
  • Zsofia Foldvari, Postdoc, Hungary
  • Sara Torkzadeh, Technician, Iran
  • Valgerdur Björnsdottir, Technician,
  • Marina Delic-Sarac, Researcher, Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Siri Sakya, PhD student,
  • Hemalatha Babu, Postdoc, India
  • Ravi Chand Bollineni, Researcher,
  • Johanne Bonsaksen Vestbøstad, PhD student, Norway
  • Lisa Tietze, Technician,
  • Julie Røkke Osen, Technician, Norway
  • Victoriia Chaban, Technician,
  • Zhuokun Li, PhD student, Norway
  • Cathrine Knetter Hoel, Technician, Norway
  • Alvaro Haroun-Izquierdo, PhD student, Canary Island

Previous master and medical students

  • Mariam Dajani
  • Eystein Lie
  • Janaarthan,Ganeshan
  • Siv Skundberg Jensen
  • Thea Josefine Christensen
  • Jonas Krag Viken, Stud med
  • Clementine Ingrid Sey
  • Irene Alonso Cabanas
  • Oda Almåsbak
  • Ruchi Saigal
  • Henriette Nicolaysen Myrland
  • Tuva Sundell
  • Sigrid Skjelbostad
  • Jacob Conradi
  • Nelson Thapelo Mathabela

Visiting students and researchers

  • Alessandro Martucci, PhD student, Italy
  • Jens Niemann, PhD student, Germany
  • Hanna Duan, PhD student, Finland
  • Emil Birch Christensen, PhD student, Denmark
  • Christoph Hahn, MD student, Germany
  • Kasper Melchers, MSc student, Netherlands
  • Maja Kowol, Germany
Published Feb. 4, 2014 10:41 AM - Last modified Sep. 5, 2026 5:28 PM