# Háskóli Íslands

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## TL;DR

Iceland's national university, in Reykjavík. It sponsors the iStopMM screening study for a blood condition that can lead to myeloma, and is building a cancer research centre with Landspítali.

## Summary

The University of Iceland, at Sæmundargata 2 in Reykjavík, had 13,830 students registered on 20 February 2026, 712 of them doctoral students, according to its facts and figures page. It is the lead sponsor of iStopMM (Iceland Screens, Treats or Prevents Multiple Myeloma, NCT03327597), which invited everyone registered as living in Iceland and born in 1975 or earlier to take part in a study of the benefits and harms of screening for monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, with Landspítali among its collaborators. Landspítali's Cancer Centre, founded in 2025 and working to the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes' standards, says it is building a centre for cancer research in collaboration with the University of Iceland. The coordinates are from Wikidata.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: University of Iceland; HÍ
- City: Reykjavík, IS
- Type: university
- Website: https://english.hi.is

## Sources

- University of Iceland: facts and figures: https://english.hi.is/about-ui/about-university/media-and-press/facts-and-figures
- Landspítali: about the Landspítali Cancer Centre (in Icelandic): https://island.is/s/landspitali/krabbameinsmidstod-landspitala
- ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03327597 (iStopMM): https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03327597

## Connected records

- institutions: [Krabbameinsskrá Íslands](https://onco.cc/institutions/icelandic-cancer-registry/), [Landspítali, the National University Hospital of Iceland](https://onco.cc/institutions/landspitali/)
- trials: [iStopMM](https://onco.cc/trials/istopmm/)

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