University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Dr. Bjerkvig is Professor in Cell Biology, Department of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen, Norway. Bjerkvig has served as director of the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway
His main interests are to elucidate the mechanisms that cause tumor cell invasion and metastasis from primary and secondary brain tumors. This involves work focusing on mechanisms related to tumor/host cell interactions, -and how cells adapt within this microenvironment in order facilitate tumor growth. His research has also focused on mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression, with particular emphasis on cancer initiating cells and angiogenesis and how new knowledge generated can be exploited in a therapeutic context. For this purpose, his group has been highly recognized for the development of new model systems that reflect human CNS malignancies.
