Geir Christensen

Group Leader & Professor

Christensen group

Email: geir.christensen@medisin.uio.no
Phone: +47 906 71 853

Education
– MD 1982
– PhD 1993
– Master of Health Administration 2004

Positions (selected)
– Professor of Medicine 2003-
– Founder and Head, Norwegian PhD School of Heart Research ( NORHEART) 2013-
– Head, Centre for Heart Failure Research 2003-2018
– Visiting Scientist, University of California, San Diego 1996-1997
– Postdoctoral Researcher 1993-1996
– PhD Student 1986-1992
– Resident, Internal Medicine 1982-1986

Awards, committees and memberships
– Award for Outstanding Research, Norwegian Health Association presented by King Harald V 2011
– Head of Organizing Committee, Annual Symposium on Heart Research 2003-2020
– Elected Member, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 2018-

Research area

Cell signaling
Diastolic dysfunction
Fibrosis
Heart failure

Latest publications

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Vistnes M, Erusappan PM, Sasi A, Nordén ES, Bergo K, Romaine A, Lunde IG, Zhang L, Olsen MB, Øgaard J, Carlson CR, Wang CH, Riise J, Dahl CP, Fiane AE, Hauge-Iversen I, Espe E, Melleby AO, Tønnessen T, Aronsen JM, Sjaastad I, Christensen G (2023)
Inhibition of the extracellular enzyme ADAMTS4 prevents cardiac fibrosis and dysfunction
Cardiovasc Res
PubMed 37216909 DOI 10.1093/cvr/cvad078

Perdreau-Dahl H, Lipsett DB, Frisk M, Kermani F, Carlson CR, Brech A, Shen X, Bergan-Dahl A, Hou Y, Tuomainen T, Tavi P, Jones PP, Lunde M, Wasserstrom JA, Laporte J, Ullrich ND, Christensen G, Morth JP, Louch WE (2023)
BIN1, Myotubularin, and Dynamin-2 Coordinate T-Tubule Growth in Cardiomyocytes
Circ Res, 132 (11), e188-e205
PubMed 37139790 DOI 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.122.321732

Andreassen K, Rixon C, Hansen MH, Hauge-Iversen IM, Zhang L, Sadredini M, Erusappan PM, Sjaastad I, Christensen G, Haugaa KH, Edvardsen T, Lunde IG, Stokke MK (2023)
Beneficial effects of exercise initiated before development of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in genotype-positive mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 324 (6), H881-H892
PubMed 37115627 DOI 10.1152/ajpheart.00701.2022

Strand ME, Vanhaverbeke M, Henkens MTHM, Sikking MA, Rypdal KB, Braathen B, Almaas VM, Tønnessen T, Christensen G, Heymans S, Lunde IG (2023)
Inflammation and Syndecan-4 Shedding from Cardiac Cells in Ischemic and Non-Ischemic Heart Disease
Biomedicines, 11 (4)
PubMed 37189684 DOI 10.3390/biomedicines11041066

Rypdal KB, Olav Melleby A, Robinson EL, Li J, Palmero S, Seifert DE, Martin D, Clark C, López B, Andreassen K, Dahl CP, Sjaastad I, Tønnessen T, Stokke MK, Louch WE, González A, Heymans S, Christensen G, Apte SS, Lunde IG (2022)
ADAMTSL3 knock-out mice develop cardiac dysfunction and dilatation with increased TGFβ signalling after pressure overload
Commun Biol, 5 (1), 1392
PubMed 36539599 DOI 10.1038/s42003-022-04361-1

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