ALT Åslaug Helland, MD, PhD, is Research Director at the OECI-accredited Oslo Comprehensive Cancer Centre. She is an oncologist by training, with expertise in thoracic oncology. She is also Professor at the University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine. She is director of the national research centre for clinical cancer research – MATRIX, and she leads the national centre for lung cancer research funded by the Norwegian Cancer Society. Åslaug Helland obtained her MD degree in 1995, and later her PhD in Medicine in 2000, from the University of Oslo. She pursued her postdoctoral studies during 2003/2004 at Stanford University, and in 2008/2009 as a visiting scientist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne Australia, adding to her international experience. She leads the research group “Translational research on solid tumours” at the Institute for Cancer Research, Norwegian Radium Hospital (NRH), Oslo, focusing on translational studies on solid tumours.