{"id":1301,"date":"2013-12-20T10:27:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T10:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:20:09","slug":"minneord-hildegunn-helle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k2info.w.uib.no\/nb_no\/2013\/12\/20\/minneord-hildegunn-helle\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneord Hildegunn HelleObituary Hildegunn Helle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hildegunn_2\"<\/a>Det var med stor sorg brystkreftgruppen ved Mohn Kreftforskningslaboratorium mottok nyheten om at Hildegunn hadde g\u00e5tt bort om kvelden 10. desember. D\u00f8dsfallet var ikke uventet; vi visste hun var alvorlig syk og at dette ville komme. Da hun mandag kveld fikk sovne rolig inn i sitt eget hjem med sine n\u00e6rmeste rundt seg var det en verdig og god avslutning p\u00e5 en tung sykdomsprosess.<\/p>\n

Hildegunn kom til gruppen v\u00e5r i 1995; og med unntak av naturlige permisjoner i forbindelse med tre barnef\u00f8dsler var hun sammenhengende i arbeid i gruppen fram til sykdommen gjorde dette fysisk umulig. Hun tilh\u00f8rte gruppen av veteraner som var med fra tidlig start og fram til det gruppen har utviklet seg til i dag. Hildegunn utmerket seg allerede fra starten av som en usedvanlig dyktig medarbeider. I starten var hun med blant dem som utviklet v\u00e5re nye assay’s for h\u00f8ysensitive \u00f8strogen-m\u00e5linger, arbeider som skulle f\u00e5 avgj\u00f8rende betydning for forst\u00e5elsen av og bruken av de nye aromatasehemmerne, som i dag er standard-behandling for hundre tusener av kvinner med brystkreft verden over. Senere deltok hun i pioner-arbeidet rundt oppbygging av biobanker foruten \u00e5 ta opp en rekke andre analytiske oppgaver. I forbindelse med planleggingen og innredningen av v\u00e5rt nye Mohn Kreftforsknings-laboratorium var hun en av n\u00f8kkelmedarbeiderne. Hun var en medarbeider som aldri sa nei til nye utfordringer; hun var klar p\u00e5 egen kompetanse, samtidig som hun m\u00f8tte nye utfordringer med holdningen \u00abdette kan jeg ikke, men f\u00e5r jeg mulighetene vil jeg gjerne sette meg inn i det og ta oppgaven\u00bb. Kunnskap og anvendelse av statistikk for data-behandling kan nevnes som et eksempel, hennes engasjement som verneombud et annet; sammen illustrerer de spennvidden i arbeidsinnsatsen og kompetansen til et usedvanlig rikt utrustet menneske.<\/p>\n

Framfor alt var hun og en av grunnpilarene i det gode milj\u00f8et vi gjennom mange \u00e5r har hatt i gruppen. B\u00e5de som rollemodell og, ikke minst som en person som tok aktivt del i introduksjon og oppl\u00e6ring av nye medarbeidere, spilte hun en n\u00f8kkelrolle. Hennes vinnende personlighet og gode hum\u00f8r vil alltid bli husket; hun var ikke redd for \u00e5 ta opp problemer, men gjorde dette alltid p\u00e5 en konstruktiv m\u00e5te. Det var derfor med stor glede vi h\u00f8sten 2012 formelt kunne forfremme henne til overingeni\u00f8r, en stilling i tr\u00e5d med de funksjoner hun i realiteten hadde fylt p\u00e5 en glimrende m\u00e5te over mange \u00e5r.<\/p>\n

Det var ikke tilfeldig at Hildegunn brukte sin arbeidsenergi innen kreftforskning. Gjennom flere medarbeidersamtaler gav hun oppriktig uttrykk for hvordan hun opplevde arbeidet som meningsfylt. Da blir det desto mer meningsl\u00f8st at det nettopp var en kreftsykdom som skulle avslutte hennes liv s\u00e5 alt for tidlig i en alder av 42 \u00e5r.<\/p>\n

Vi s\u00f8rger over Hildegunns bortgang. Samtidig sitter vi alle igjen med et varmt minne, og en oppriktig takk for alt hun var for oss gjennom alle disse \u00e5rene; b\u00e5de faglig, og p\u00e5 det menneskelige plan. V\u00e5re tanker g\u00e5r til Hildegunns n\u00e6rmeste; Svein Inge, som har mistet sin livsledsagerske, og deres tre mindre\u00e5rige barn som har mistet sin mor.<\/p>\n

Per Eystein L\u00f8nning, Professor, K2\"Hildegunn_2\"<\/a>It was with great sadness that the Brest Cancer Group at Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory received the news that Hildegunn had passed away on the evening of December 10.\u00a0 Her death was not unexpected; we knew she was seriously ill and that this was inevitable.\u00a0 However, as she quietly passed away on Monday evening in her own home surrounded by her closest family it was a dignified and good ending to a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n

Hildegunn arrived in our group in 1995; and except for natural leaves of absence due to three child births, she was working continuously in our group until her illness made this physically impossible.\u00a0 She belonged to the group of veterans joining us early and working with us up until what the group has become today.\u00a0 Hildegunn excelled from the beginning as a highly skilled coworker.\u00a0 In the beginning she was among those developing our new assays for high-sensitive estrogen-measurements, and this work would later prove decisive in the understanding, and use of, the new aromatase inhibitors, which today is standard treatment for hundreds of thousands of women with breast cancer worldwide.\u00a0 Later she participated in the pioneer-work related to the development of biobanks in addition to performing a number of other analytical tasks.\u00a0 She was one of the key staff members during the planning and furnishing of our new Mohn Cancer Research Laboratory.\u00a0\u00a0 She was a coworker who never said no to new challenges; she knew her own skills, and she met new challenges with the attitude «I can’t do this, but given the opportunity I would love to learn this and do the task».\u00a0 Knowledge and appliance of statistics for data-processing is one example, her commitment as HSE-representative is another; together these two examples illustrate the breadth of her work efforts and the skills of an unusually gifted person.<\/p>\n

Above all she was one of the founding pillars in the good working environment we have enjoyed for many years in the group.\u00a0 Both as a role model and, not least, as a person actively taking part in the introduction and training of new personnel, she played a key role.\u00a0 Her winning personality and good sense of humor will always be remembered; she was not afraid to bring up problems, but she always did this in a constructive way.\u00a0 It was with great joy that we could formally promote her to senior engineer autumn 2012, a position suitable to the tasks she had executed in an outstanding way over several years.<\/p>\n

It was not a coincidence that Hildegunn applied her work energy to cancer research.\u00a0 Through several performance assessments she genuinely expressed how meaningful she found her work.\u00a0 Hence it becomes even more meaningless that it was precisely a cancer disease which would end her life at an early age of 42.<\/p>\n

We mourn Hildegunn’s passing.\u00a0 At the same time we are left with a warm memory, and a genuine thank for everything she was for us through all these years; both professionally and personally.\u00a0 Our thoughts are with Hildegunn’s closest family; Svein Inge, who has lost his life partner, and their three minor children who have lost their mother.<\/p>\n

Per Eystein L\u00f8nning, Professor, K2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Det var med stor sorg brystkreftgruppen ved Mohn Kreftforskningslaboratorium mottok nyheten om at Hildegunn hadde g\u00e5tt bort om kvelden 10. desember. D\u00f8dsfallet var ikke uventet; vi visste hun var alvorlig syk og at dette ville komme. Da hun mandag kveld…<\/p>\n

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