K.G. Jebsen Centres for Medical Research
Since it was founded, Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen has established 26 KG Jebsen centres for medical research at Norwegian medical faculties and affiliated university hospitals.
The centres have been established in collaboration with the medical communities and the institutions that carry out the research. The goal is that new and important research results will result in improved treatment for patients
Current centres
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Translational Research in Parkinson’s Disease
The Centre will integrate cutting-edge molecular, computational, pharmacological, and clinical neuroscience with the aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with Parkinson’s disease.
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Cardiac Biomarkers
K.G. Jebsen Center for Cardiac Biomarkers aims to answer important unsolved questions in cardiac medicine.
K. G. Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
The K.G. Jebsen Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders will address mechanisms of normative and aberrant brain development and translate findings to improve clinical practice for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
K. G. Jebsen Centre for Alzheimer’s Disease
The Centre will bring together leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease with backgrounds in basic, translational and clinical research – from university and hospital – in a united front against the disease.Former K.G. Jebsen Centres for Medical Research
K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology
The KG Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology studies genetic variation at population level. Searching for variation in the genetic material can give us a better understanding of why we become ill and why we stay healthy.
K.G. Jebsen Coeliac Disease Research Centre
The centre endeavours to find new treatment methods for celiac disease that can be used in addition to, and in the long-term perhaps even replace, a gluten-free diet
K.G. Jebsen Center for B-cell Malignancies
The centre will address the unmet clinical need for patients with B-cell malignancies.
K.G. Jebsen Center for Genome-Directed Therapy in Cancer
Although there have been great advances in cancer treatment over the recent years, metastatic spread of cancer is in most cases still an incurable disease
K.G. Jebsen Center for Cardiac Research
Heart failure is a major cause of death in western countries, and the main cause of hospitalization among patients over 65 years in Europe.
K.G. Jebsen Center for Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide with chronic disorders, vital organ failure and premature death in the same condition as cancer and heart disease
K.G. Jebsen Colorectal Cancer Research Centre
Colorectal cancer is among the most common forms of cancer in Norway with over 4200 new cases annually. The center brings together experts in genetics, biology, bioinformatics, epidemiology, radiation therapy and surgery, aiming at improved and more tailored treatment for patients.
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders
The centre studies causal factors and mechanisms behind common mental disorders, with the main emphasis on ADHD and related conditions that entail weakened impulse control.
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy
When the immune system is unable to fight cancer, the main problem is that the immune system does not perceive the cancer cells as alien. The KG Jebsen Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy plans to utilise new strategies to do something about this.
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Influenza Vaccine Research
Influenza viruses cause a great deal of illness and many deaths every year. Medicines are only moderately efficacious and influenza vaccines are the most important method for combating the disease.
K.G. Jebsen Brain Tumor Centre
The centre’s primary goal is to come up with a better and more predictable treatment for patients with malignant brain tumours.
K. G. Jebsen Thrombosis Research and Expertise Center (TREC)
Our research will lead to more targeted preventive measures and better treatment for those affected by this disease. We will also be able to reduce the number of cases and deaths.
K.G. Jebsen Center for Exercise in Medicine
CERG (Cardiac Exercise Research Group) is an interdisciplinary group consisting of both experienced researchers and young, promising research talents at NTNU and St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim.
K.G. Jebsen – Centre for Psychosis Research
At the KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, we wish to find answers to why some people develop hallucinations and delusions, or experience deep depressions or euphoric, manic phases.
K.G. Jebsen Inflammation Research Centre
The centre conducts research on chronic inflammatory diseases, a group of diseases that cause considerable suffering and disability for those affected and that have very large costs for families and for society at large.
K.G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research
At K.G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Reaserch the goal was to map molecular conditions in many different cancerous tumors, to arrive at knowledge about the individual tumor that could lead to more tailored treatment for the individual patient.
K.G. Jebsen Center for Diabetes Research
The centre will combine clinical research with genetic large-scale analyses and studies in different model systems. In this way, the scientists work to develop new diagnostic tools that can then be tested in population-based registers and biobanks with the aim of achieving better patient treatment.
K.G. Jebsen Center for MS Research
K.G. Jebsen Center for MS Research had as its goal to identify new biomarkers for improved patient diagnosis. In addition, one would find out more about how the disease develops and progresses, thus moving further on the way to improving both diagnostics and treatment.
K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre
K.G. Jebsen Cardiac Research Centre researched on heart failure, focusing on new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment based on research on molecular and cellular mechanisms, as well as testing this in clinical trials in patients with heart failure
