Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and Institute for Internal Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet

Current research focus

The role of the innate immunosystem in cardiovascular diseases

Research projects

Project manager

• Role of the innate immun system in the development and maintenance of cardiovascular disease
• Notch signaling in atherosclerosis

Collaborator

• Substrate specificities and function of G protein-coupled receptor kinase (GRK) isoforms in adult, differentiated cardiac myocytes
• Involvement of GRK3 in the pathophysiologic mechanisms of heart failure
• Pathophysiological role of inflammatory cytokines in heart failure
• Mitochondrial DNA - maker or marker of ischemic injury?
• Innate immunity and cardiac injury
• Postconditioning in ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary PCI.