The PhD synopsis of PhD candidate Dipak Sapkota has been approved for public defence for the PhD degree. The defence will take place in late January. Well done, Dipak!

The results on S100A14 protein and its role in oral carcinogenesis are now published in Eur J Cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21074410

Our latest research on stem cells and oral carcinogenesis is now published in Cancer Res:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21062979

Himalaya Parajuli’s project on Integrin alfa 11 and oral carcinogenesis has been accepted by the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry as a PhD project. Congratulations Himal!

See bellow one of the latest results of Xiao: a cancer stem cell visualised by SEM.

PhD candidate Xiao Liang was awarded 40 000 NoK from The Meltzer Foundation for her project entitled ‘Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation in Normal and Neoplastic Human Oral Mucosa.’ CONGRATULATIONS!

The details of the 15th International Congress on Oral Pathology and Medicine will take place at Seoul, South Korea, 16-20 August 2010 and more details are now available at

http://www.iaop2010.org/program/program.asp Abstracts on oral and maxillofacial pathology should be submitted by 31 May, 2010.

Daniela Elena Costea got finance for 3 years from Bergen Medical Research Foundation for the project: ‘Characterization of oral cancer stroma – validation of its molecular signature as prognostic factor and for therapeutic intervention’. http://nyheter.uib.no/?modus=vis_nyhet&id=45289 CONGRATULATIONS!

The 101st meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research will take soon (17-21April 2010) place at Washington DC. For more details see: http://www.aacr.org/

See bellow one of the latest results from our lab: a movie showing a head and neck cancer cell (the green cells) killing a normal neighbouring normal cell (the transparent cells with red nucleus) after a close cell-to-cell contact with it and projection of thin membranous channels called tunneling nanotubes.

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Amani Hamza got the prize for the best presentation at Annual Dental Research Presentation Day with her work entitled ‘Phenotypic and functional differences between oral carcinoma associated firboblasts and normal oral fibroblasts’. CONGRATULATIONS dear Amani! we are very proud of you!

3rd UK Cancer Stem Cell Symposium will take place on 13th November 2008 at ICMS, QMUL, London, UK. Deadline for registration is 15th od October 2008. Register at: http://www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/News/Stem%20Cell%20Symposium%202008.htm

Annual Dental Research Presentation Day will take place this year on 8 October at IKO, Auditorium II.http://www.iko.uib.no/Forskning/Lokal%20forskningsdag%2008.html

Amani Hamza and Anna Farøy will present to us at BOCG, on 25th September 2008, kl 15.30, Magnus Haaland Auditorium their research work to be presented at the Dental Research Day at IKO.

Ochiba Lukandu has submited his PhD thesis today, 29th of August 2008.
Well done dear Lukandu, and good luck back in Kenya! We will miss you!

Ochiba Lukandu got the prize for the best poster at the 14th International Congress on Oral Pathology and Medicine hold in San Francisco, July 2008. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Do not forget that the dead-line for registration for IADR PEF NOF 2008 is 18th of June.

Helene Nilsson and Maria Kristine Otterlei got the prize for the best student presentations at the Research Presentation Day hold this year at the Faculty of Dentistry, UoB. Congratulations!

Ochiba Lukandu and Daniela Costea got the prizes for the best poster and oral presentation at the 13th International Congress on Oral Pathology and Medicine hold in Brisbane, Australia 21-25 June 2006. Congratulations!

Mai Lill Suhr got this year the prize for the best free paper at the 11th International Congress on Oral Cancer in Grado, last week, with the oral presentation ‘Gene Expression Profiles in Oral Cancers: Multicountry Study’. Dear Mai Lill, congratulations!

‘Research experience from London’ – presentation by Daniela Elena Costea.

Report from the first 2006 Bergen Oral Cancer Group meeting by Daniela Elena Costea.