Research activity at the unit for Laboratory Medicine includes medical biochemistry, pharmacology, medical genetics, immunology, transfusion medicine and medical microbiology.

We collaborate with corresponding field and clinical unit at St. Olavs hospital, other NTNU departments and other national and international research groups. The research unit for Laboratory Medicine include PhD-, master- and research students.

Research groups

1. Artificial intelligence and digital pathology in cancer (AICAN)
2. Bioinformatics and gene regulation
3. Breast cancer subtypes
4. Cancer, molecular mechanisms and genetic risk factors
5. Cellular responses to DNA damage
6. Cilia and brain physiology
7. DNA base modifications and chromatin integrity
8. DNA repair and adaptive immunity
9. Electron microscopy
10. Experimental pharmacology and surgery
11. Hereditary disease
12. Immunotoxicology
13. Inflammation and cardiovascular disease
14. Liquid biopsies in lung cancer
15. Medical systems virology
16. Neuroepigenetics
17. Non-homologous DNA end joining
18. Proteome and genome dynamics
19. Scaffold proteins in cellular stress responses
20. Toxicology and metabolic interactions
21. Virus immunity and disease

Core facilities

• Bioinformatics core facility (BioCore)
• Cellular and molecular imaging core facility (CMIC)
• Proteomics and modomics experimental core facility (PROMEC)

Research projects

• Farmakologi
• Brain tumour
• Rettstoksikologiprosjektet (ForTox)
• Virulence factors in diarrheagenic E. coli
• Targeting antimicrobial resistance by inhibition of bacterial stress responses (TAMiR)
• Investigation into the physiological and clinical implications of rare genetic variations in the human µ-opioid receptor