Geir Christensen group
Group strategy
- To identify secreted factors (e.g. cytokines) involved in development of heart failure
- To examine effects of secreted factors (e.g. cytokines) on gene expression and calcium handling in cardiomyocytes
- To assess the functional role of reduced SR calcium uptake in heart failure
Head of group
Group members
- Theis Tønnessen Professor, MD, PhD
- Cathrine Rein Carlson Research scientist, siv. ing, PhD
- Geir Florholmen Postdoc
- Cathrine Husberg Postdoc
- Ståle Nygård Postdoc
- Biljana Skrbic MD
- Johannes Bjørnstad MD, PhD student
- Karl-Otto Larsen MD, PhD student
- Anne Wæhre MD, PhD student
- Kristin Victoria Tunheim Engebretsen stud.med
- Anett Hellebø Ottesen PhD student
- Ida Gjervold Lunde MSc, PhD student
- Kate Møller PhD student
- Vigdis Hillestad Student
- Maria Vistnes Student
- Dina Behmen Research Associate, MSC
- Heidi Kvaløy Research Associate, MSc
- Hilde Dishington Research Associate
- Almira Karahasan Cand scient
- Lisbeth H. Winer Research Associate, Cand Scient
- Bjørg Austbø Research Associate
- Hilde O. Jarstadmarken Research Associate, M.S.
- Henriette Schermacher Marstein Research Associate MSc
- Kalpana Sinnadurai Research Associate, M.Sc