Norwegian Complement Research Group

The Norwegian Complement Research Group (NCRG), led by professor Tom Eirik Mollnes, is an informal association of scientists focusing their work mainly on the complement system, a part of the hosts’ innate immunity. The group comprises approximately 25 people located at two different laboratories in Norway, “The Bodø Laboratory” at Nordland Hospital and University of Tromsø, and “The Oslo laboratory” at Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo.

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Jul 8. 2021.

Complement and outcome after cardiac arrest

PhD candidate V. Chaban and co-authors have investigated complement system activation in resuscitated cardiac arrest patients from the large NORCAST observational study. Chaban hypothesised...

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Mollnes, Tom Eirik Mar 12. 2021.

Comprehensive Review on Complement

Therapeutic Targeting of the Complement System: From Rare Diseases to Pandemics by Peter Garred, Andrea Tenner and Tom Eirik Mollnes In this up-to-date and comprehensive review published open-access in the prestigious journal Pharmacological Reviews (IF 18.9) the authors cover the main aspects of the complement system, from the...

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Pischke, Søren Sep 22. 2020.

NCRG reveals role of Complement in COVID-19

Systemic Complement Activation is Associated with Respiratory Failure in COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients This is a summary of the landmark prospective cohort patient study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science with many authors from the NCRG (Pischke SE, deBoer E, Sokolova M, Chaban V, Schjalm C,...

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