Doctoral defense and trial lecture – Inga Kirstine Flaaten Motzfeldt
Inga Kirstine Flaaten Motzfeldt defends February 19, 2026, her doctoral degree at the University of Bergen with the thesis "Exploration of Disease Mechanisms and Targeted Therapies in Acute Myeloid Leukemia".
MEDICAL FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN
DOCTORAL DEFENSE
Inga Kirstine Flaaten Motzfeldt
The candidate has done her work at the Department of Clinical Science, K.G. Jebsen Senter for Myeloid Blodkreft (CMYC), and CCBIO
Main supervisor: Professor Bjørn Tore Gjertsen
Co-supervisors: Senior Researcher Monica Hellesøy, Associate Professor Maria Omsland, and Professor Lars Rönnstrand.
Trial lecture
When: Feb. 19, 2026, at 10.15–11.15
Place: BB building, Auditorium 1, Haukeland University Hospital
Topic: "Functional Precision Oncology – Phosphoproteomics-guided targeting of oncogenic kinases in AML"
Doctoral defense
When: Feb. 19, 2026, at 12.15–15.00
Place: BB building, Auditorium 1, Haukeland University Hospital
Dissertation title: "Exploration of Disease Mechanisms and Targeted Therapies in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
1. opponent: Associate Professor Francesca Sacco, University of Rome, Italy
2. opponent: Professor Kim Theilgaard-Mönch, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
3. member of the committee: Researcher Luiza Ghila, University of Bergen, Norway
Professor Emerita Birgitta Åsjø will chair the defense.
Open to the public.