Bioinformatics

The Trond Mohn Foundation has collaborated with Haukeland University Hospital (HUS) and the University of Bergen (UiB),to establish an interdisciplinary research group in bioinformatics. This initiative includes funding to recruit five professors to different UiB departments UiB, operational support for the use of advanced medical equipment for personalised medicine and genome sequencing, and the establishment of a bioinformatics service centre for researchers at UiB and HUS; the SAMB Centre for Applied Bioinformatics.

The newly recruited professors are assistant professor Markus Miettinen (Dept of Chemistry), professor Anagha Joshi (Dept of clinical science 2), professor Håkon Dahle (Dept of Biology), professor Sushma Grellscheid, (Department of Biology), professor Susanna Röblitz (Department of informatics). The Computational Biology Unit (CBU) will be the academic unit coordinating recruitment and will be an important driving force for academic cooperation.

The initiative is linked to previous donations in the form of medical equipment from Trond Mohn and the Trond Mohn Foundation.  Methodology development and user assistance are required for UiB and HUS  to take full advantage of the donations.  The initiative is interdisciplinary and will strengthen Norwegian research and education in computational biology.

Part of the initiative’s funding went to personalised medicine and genome sequencing.

Another part of the funding went to establishing the SAMB Centre for Applied Medical Bioinformatics, and a BFS-supported position that offers services within the field of bioinformatics to biomedical research projects.