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As the 3rd in a series that started in 2022, a national meeting was held at Thon Hotel Opera, Oslo, on January 30, 2025. The meeting programme included 12 presentations from clinical, translational and basic research groups as well as a presentation by the Norwegian Cancer Society about its role in cancer research. A promising young pancreatic cancer researcher was honoured with a travel stipend granted by the Norwegian pancreatic cancer patient organisation PKNN.
Oddmund Nordgård from Stavanger University Hospital presented new results at the annual meeting of the European Liquid Biopsy Society (ELBS), which was held in Barcelona 26-27. November. The ELBS is a dynamic network consisting of partners from academia and industry with the common goal of bringing LB tests into clinical routine
The Project Board of KNEP is grateful for the generous memorial donation by the Voldbakken family. The donation will be used for research into a new model for pancreatic cancer which has been developed by Prof Anders Molven and his group at the University of Bergen. The model attempts to explain how certain genetic changes can lead to the development of pancreatic cancer.