Norwegian Radium Hospital
The Norwegian Radium Hospital (Norwegian: Radiumhospitalet) is a hospital in Oslo, Norway dedicated to cancer treatment. It is the largest cancer centre in Northern Europe, with 400 beds and around 2,000 employees. It was founded in 1932, with Severin Andreas Heyerdahl as chief physician and director, and Hans L. C. Huitfeldt as chairman of the board.
It has its own research institute, Institute for Cancer Research, located at the hospital, since 2009 it has been housed in a new, separate research building. The institute is organised in 7 research departments, and has about 300 employees.
The Radium Hospital in general, and the research institute in particular, has always maintained close cooperation with the Norwegian Cancer Society, which funds a substantial proportion of the research at the hospital.
The Radium Hospital merged in 2005 with Rikshospitalet to create Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF. On January 1, 2009, Rikshospitalet merged with Ullevål University Hospital and Aker University Hospital to create Oslo University Hospital, where it is now part of he Institute for Cancer Research.
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Coordinates: 59°55′51.04″N 10°39′39.81″E / 59.9308444°N 10.6610583°E
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