Oslo Myeloma Center – Oslo University Hospital

A large and comprehensive Norwegian myeloma research centre Description: This film shows the breadth of features at Oslo Myeloma Center including - 1) A large clinical research activity. (2017: 84 enrolled patients in 11 clinical studies, from phase 1 to phase 3; academic and industry studies). Biggest center in the Nordics, and biggest center in the Nordic Myeloma Study Group. Weekly group meetings, and twice weekly tumor boards. 5-days-a-week study outpatient clinic. 2) Our first phase-1-study is now ongoing, and we’re the biggest center. Today (22jan) a patient of ours received the triplet treatment, as the first patient in the world. He might be interviewed. 3) Strong collaboration with the translational group KG Jebsen for B cell malignancies (Newly founded), pathophysiology, immunotherapy and drug sensitivity center. 4) Large transplant center: 124 autologous transplants in 2017. 5) In our hospital we have high-tech facilities for cytogenetics, flowcytometrics, pathology, and PET-CT. 6) We have the largest cell laboratory in public health care in Europe, and have CAR-T-cell-experience from two previous studies. We have an amyloidosis group with regular tumor boards, and who have developed a lasermicrodissection-mass spectrometry program. https://www.ous-research.no/myeloma/