The Laboratory for Immunohistochemistry and Immunopathology (LIIPAT) is located at the Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, and the Division of Pathology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital. Mucosal Immunology is the scientific focus of the group, which has collaboration with various clinical departments at Rikshospitalet and other University Hospitals as well as with several research institutions in Norway and abroad. LIIPAT is one the 5 groups in the Centre for Immune Regulation (CIR), which has been selected as a Centre of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway.

Per Brandtzaeg, DDS, MS, PhD is the founder of LIIPAT. He has over the last two decades been the leading Norwegian scientist in all fields on the Institute of Scientific Information’s high-impact list, publishing more than 600 peer-reviewed original papers. He has received 14 awards all over the world. As a teacher, he has given ~300 contributions to postgraduate courses, ~680 invited lectures for various universities and societies, and supervised 40 doctoral dissertations.

Information about the Ph.D. program at University of Oslo medical faculty can be found here.

Finn-Eirik Johansen, PhD is Prof. at UO and the current Head of LIIPAT. He completed his PhD at Columbia University 1994 (New York, NY, USA).  He was awarded several prizes including the John S Newberry Prize for best Ph.D. in vertebrate biology at Columbia University, and has published 55 articles in peer-reviewed journals.