Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO) is a Center of Excellence at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen.
The center will be working on new cancer biomarkers and targeted therapy, and will particularly focus on mechanisms that show how cancer cells are affected by the microenvironment in the tumors, and what significance this has for cancer proliferation and poor prognosis.
Center manager is Lars A. Akslen, Department of Clinical Medicine.
Project managers
Centre director is Lars A. Akslen.
CCBIO has nine projects, each led by a project manager:
CCBIO is established by the Research Council of Norway. Other important sources of financial support are Helse Vest, the University of Bergen, and the Norwegian Cancer Society.