Pranvera Hiseni works on an industrial PhD scheme in collaboration with GA and NMBU. In addition to working on improving current detection methods, she has developed a database that contains more than 5000 different bacterial species in the human gut world wide. She explains that the human gut microbiome need to be balanced in order to prevent different diseases. Further, she says that the research area involving the gut microbiome expands and more evidences are found connecting intestinal bacteria to different diseases.