| Description: Professor Brandtzaeg obtained his postgraduate training in medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (1962-64), and received his Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Oslo (1971). He is currently Chairman of the Institute of Pathology, Rikshospitalet, and Head of the Department Group for Laboratory Medicine, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. His research interest is in the immunobiology and immunopathology of mucous membranes; mucosal diseases associated with chronic inflammation, allergy, and/or immunodeficiency; and malignant or reactive disorders of lymphoid tissue. He obtained the top score of leading European scientists in the field of mucosal immunology in a worldwide peer judgement carried out by the US National Academy of Sciences ‘Immunology Benchmarking Panel’ in 1998. Professor Brandtzaeg is heading the Laboratory for Immunohistochemistry and Immunopathology (LIIPAT) which, with its seven sections, is fully devoted to research on mucosal immunity. He is also leader of a thematic research network for Vaccinology and Immunotherapy at the University of Oslo |