CCB doctoral thesis, Yan Zhen

MD Yan Zhen defended her PhD thesis entitled “Intracellular trafficking and signaling of fibroblast growth factor 1 and its receptor” on Friday 23 April at 10.15 hrs.

She gave her trial lecture on the subject “Challenges and opportunities with kinases as target for cancer therapy” on Thursday 22 April at 15.15 hrs. Both events took place in the auditorium of the New Research Building at Montebello. The work has been carried out at the Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Biochemical Department, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, with Group leader PhD, Antoni Wiedlocha as main supervisor. The second photo shows from the left: Professor Anne Simonsen (dissertation leader), MD Yan Zhen, Professor Marta Miaczynska (1st opponent), Professor Ole Morten Seternes (2nd opponent) and Professor Anne Carine Østvold (3rd opponent).