About

The Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology research group uses a combination of experimental and theoretical methods to study molecular mechanism of drugs and toxic substances, and to identify new compounds with a putative therapeutic potential.

Members

Kurt KristiansenAssociate Professor

Kurt Kristiansen  –  Associate Professor

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Position: Associate Professor

E-mail: kurt.kristiansen@uit.no

Work phone: +4777644875

Private phone: 47848742

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Berit BangProfessor

Berit Bang  –  Professor

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Position: Professor

E-mail: berit.bang@uit.no

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Clizia RussottoDoctoral Research Fellow

Clizia Russotto  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

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Position: Doctoral Research Fellow

E-mail: clizia.russotto@uit.no

Work phone: +4777645987

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Inga Elda

Inga Elda

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Imin WushurHead Engineer

Imin Wushur  –  Head Engineer

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Position: Head Engineer

E-mail: imin.wushur@uit.no

Work phone: +4777620975

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Ingebrigt SylteProfessor (Group leader)

Ingebrigt Sylte  –  Professor

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Position: Professor

E-mail: ingebrigt.sylte@uit.no

Work phone: +4777644705

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Linn Samira Mari Evenseth

Linn Samira Mari Evenseth

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Jan-Olof Winbergemeriti

Jan-Olof Winberg  –  emeriti

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Position: emeriti

E-mail: jan.o.winberg@uit.no

Work phone: +4777645488

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Mari GabrielsenAssociate Professor

Mari Gabrielsen  –  Associate Professor

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Position: Associate Professor

E-mail: mari.gabrielsen@uit.no

Work phone: +4777644877

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Projects

Teaching

Our research group has the responsibility for coordinating teaching in pharmacology and toxicology at all study programmes at the Faculty of Health Sciences except for pharmacy (Kurt Kristiansen). The scientific staff connected to the teaching unit mainly teach basic pharmacology with a focus on the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of drug groups, but also some clinical pharmacology (medicine year 4 and 6). We also teach basic toxicology in several study programmes at UiT. 

We are responisble for two of the courses in the biomedicine course portfolio:

• MBI-2005 General Pharmacology and Toxicology (bachelor level course; course leader: Kurt Kristiansen)
• MBI-3015 Human Pharmacology and Toxicology (master level course; course leader: Mari Gabrielsen)

The scientific staff connected to the Pharmacology and Toxicology teaching unit teach in the following courses (2023): 

Biomedicine - Biomedisin (bachelor and master programmes)

• MBI-2005 General Pharmacology and Toxicology (bachelor level course)
• MBI-3012 Advanced Methods in Experimental Biomedicine (master level course)
• MBI-3015 Human Pharmacology and Toxicology (master level course)

Medicine - Medisin profesjonsstudium

• MED-1501 Medicine year 1
• MED-2501 Medicine year 2
• MED-2510 Medicine year 3
• MED-2520 (International semester)/MED-2521 Medicine year 4
• MED-3601 Medicine year 6

Odontology - Odontologi

• ODO-1004 Master i odontologi 1. studieår (year 1)
• ODO-2008 Biomedisin 1 og viten (year 2)
• ODO-2009 Biomedisin 2 (year 2)
• ODO-2518 Oral økologi (year 3)

Nursing - Sykepleie (full-time and desentralised part-time bachelor programmes)

• SYP-1140/SYP-1121 Grunnleggende sykepleie med sykdomslære og farmakologi
• SYD-1140/SYD-1121 Grunnleggende sykepleie med sykdomslære og farmakologi
• SYD-2111 Sykepleie til akutt, kronisk og kritisk syke med sykdomslære og farmakologi

School nursing/Helsesykepleie (master level programme)

Midwifery - Jordmorfag (master level programme)

• JMO-3007 Helsefremmende og forebyggende jordmorfag

Nutrition - Ernæring - bachelor/Klinisk ernæring - master (bachelor and master programmes)

• ERN-2013 Immunology, pharmacology, epigenetics and microbiology (bachelor level course)
• ERN-3002 Klinisk ernæring 2 (master level course)

Bioengineering - Bioingeniørfag (bachelor programme)

• MBI-2112 Medisinsk biokjemi og farmakologi

Publications

Hall of fame

2010

Anett Kristin Larsen

Proteases from seafood as activators of protease-activated receptor-2 in airway epithelial cells (PhD thesis)

2011

Mari Gabrielsen

Structure, function and inhibition of the serotonin transporter studied by molecular docking, -dynamics and virtual screening (PhD thesis)

Stian Sjøli

Kinetic and docking studies of inhibitors targeting the catalytic zinc in MA clan enzymes (PhD thesis)

2012

Imin Wushur

Structure and fuction of Scaptodrosophila lebanoensis alcohol dehydrogenase (PhD thesis)

2013

Olga Shiryaeva

Respiratory symptoms, lung function, and occupational exposure among seafood industry workers. A study among employees at Norwegian salmon factories and Russian North-West trawl fleet (Arkhangelsk) (PhD thesis)

2014 

Inger Lindin

Mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase 5 - Structure, function and inhibition (PhD thesis)

2015

Sampada Satchidanand Bhagwat

Biological exposure agents relevant to the seafood industry work environment as inducers of inflammatory responses in skin and airway cell models (PhD thesis)

2017

Marte Renate Thomassen

Occupational exposure, respiratory health and sensitisation among crab processing workers. A study among processors of king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) and edible crab (Cancer pagurus) in Norwegian land based crab processing plants (PhD thesis)

2018 

Thibaud Freyd

Allosteric modulation of GABAergic and glutamatergic metabotropic receptors (PhD thesis)

2019

Linn Samira Mari Evenseth

Ligand binding and dynamics of the GABA_B receptor Venus flytrap domain (PhD thesis)

2023 

Fatema Amatur Rahman

Zinc binding and chelating compounds as inhibitors of bacterial metalloproteases and human matrix metalloproteases (PhD thesis)

Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology Research Group