See what we’ve been up to! Catch up on the latest news and information about our research and publications, as well as the team and lab in general.

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This 9M NOK funding will support our research on pancreatic cancer precision genomics.
We've received 400 000 NOK funding from The UiO Growth House.

All news and updates

Updates

27.06.2025

Congratulations to Marlene Metz for a great Master’s thesis defense at University of Oslo!!! Post-celebration photo from the rooftop of Oslo Science Park!

The thesis was approved with top grade A unanimously by both the external sensors, Dr. Dagim Tadele, PhD and Dr. Eivind Valen, PhD. Marlene was working on the NORMA-TRANSFORM project and jointly supervised by me and Professor Vessela Kristensen at the Department of Medical Genetics in the Oslo University Hospital.

14.06.2025

Great fun having the summer barbecue party with lab mates this year @courtsey Anthony and Ieva as hosts!!! Good food, great fun with games!!!

04.06.2025

Our group attending the Annual NCMBM Retreat at Sundvolden Hotel !!!

23.05.2025

Wonderful to present our group’s research at the Annual RPU Science day at the Faculty of Medicine and University of Helsinki!!!

28.04.2025

Himanshi Kappor, PhD joins our laboratory in University of Oslo as a postdoctoral fellow in the recently funded EP PerMed project DYNAMITE. Welcome!

13.12.2024

Sahu lab X-mas dinner at Sudøst, Oslo and great evening with all group members!!!

06.12.2024

NCMBM X-mas party at Oslo Science park with lab mates!

11.11.2024

Great news! Ville Tiusanen receives funded PhD position in the Integrative Life Sciences Doctoral Programme of the University of Helsinki. Congratulations!!!

12.06.2024

Great news! Konsta Karttunen receives three-year funded PhD position in the Spring call of the Doctoral Education Pilot 2024 in Precision Cancer Medicine project. Congratulations!!!

15.03.2024

Congratulations to Konsta Karttunen for receiving the Best Master’s thesis prize 2023 from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki. Well done Konsta and all of us are very proud of you!!!

This 2.5M NOK grant was awarded for establishing the Spatial Single-cell Biology Center.
Our EP PerMed project DYNAMITE is successful and received a grant.
Two joint positions are currently open (Oslo and Helsinki), as well as a new opportunity with the Dynamite consortium coming soon.
We’ve received a grant from the ‘Norwegian Cancer Society (Kreftforeningen)’
New paper published in Nature Communications!
We’ve received a grant from the ‘Astri og Birger Torsteds legat’ foundation.
Our group visited this year's annual NCMM retreat at Strömstad Spa and Resort in Sweden!
This will allow for e.g. long read sequencing of genetic material.
The new Chromium iX Controller from 10X Genomics is now installed and running in our lab!
Our latest paper was published in the Nature Biotechnology journal in September 2022!
Our new paper, Sequence Determinants of Human Gene Regulatory Elements, has been published in Nature Genetics in March 2022!