Kort beskrivning
The research group, is one of several research groups hosted at the Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, are studying brain tumours, from children and adults. The most common type of adult brain tumour is glioblastoma. Glioblastomas are highly aggressive with a median survival of less than one year. In children, brain tumours constitute 1/3 of all cancers and are the leading cause of cancer-related mortality and morbidity. There are severe side-effects from the treatment and survivors often experience substantial long-term problems. The research group establish patient-derived in vitro cultures from patients undergoing surgery for brain tumours. For the in vitro cell cultures there is a need to acquire a live cell imaging system, which can provide images of cells kept stationary in a controlled environment during extended periods of time.