We聽focus on primary as well as metastatic tumours to the brain. We perform聽basic and translational research, with the聽aim聽to better understand how brain tumors are initiated and to better delineate the mechanisms responsible for tumor growth.
The Bjerkvig lab is part of the Translational Cancer Research Group at the Department of Biomedicine.
Video:聽barcoded cells from a聽micro-brain grown in culture聽invade a healthy brain. Credit: Wenjing Zhou.

Principal investigator: the lab is lead by Professor Rolf Bjerkvig. Visit his personal page.听