Professor Berg

Biography

Professor Kristian Berg is Head of Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, since 2010. He graduated as biochemist in 1985 at the University of Oslo where he obtained his doctoral degree (dr.philos) in experimental photomedicine in 1990. He has 30 years of experience in experimental and preclinical research within the field photodynamic therapy (PDT).  He has a broad background in developing technologies from the bench via preclinical animal-based studies to the clinic and has contributed to establish two companies currently listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with 2 products approved for clinical use and several in pipeline.  He has been President of the European Society for Photobiology (2007-2009), visiting professor at the Medical Faculty, University of Wroclaw, Poland, and professor at School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo from 2009.

Research Interest

Professor Berg has published more than 200 papers, mainly in peer reviewed journals and is co-inventor of 8 patents. Professor Berg is an inventor of Photochemical Internalisation (PCI). He has received several prices such as Claude Rimingtons memorial prize, Pater-Leander-Fischer prize by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lasermedizin,  Kendric C. Smith Innovation Lecture Award and European Society for Photobiology Award for Excellence in Photobiological Research. He is also an appointed Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 2014.