Ludvig M. Sollid - Biography#

Ludvig Sollid started his scientific career when he was a medical student at the University of Oslo. He was trained by Erik Thorsby (transplantation immunologist) and Per Brandtzaeg (mucosal immunologist). Soon after he completed his MD, he defended his PhD at the Medical Faculty at the University of Oslo in 1992. He did a postdoc with Erik Thorsby before he became a full professor of medicine at the University of Oslo in 1996 at the age of 34. At the same time Sollid got a position as part time consultant at Oslo University Hospital. After Sollid got his faculty position, he established his own research group. He successfully obtained funding allowing him to run a productive research group. In 2003-2004 he spent a year on sabbatical with Professor Chaitan Khosla at Stanford University. In 2007 Sollid and four other principal investigators at University of Oslo were awarded a prestigious Centre of Excellence (CoE) by the Research Council of Norway. The CoE entitled Centre for Immune Regulation had Ludvig Sollid as the Director for its entire duration of 5+5 years (prolonged after a successful midterm evaluation). In 2011 Sollid was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. In 2010 the Federation of Clinical Immunological Societies (FOCIS) awarded a CoE at the University of Oslo with Ludvig Sollid as the center’s Director. He still holds this position. In 2016 Ludvig Sollid founded a research center on celiac disease at the University of Oslo. This research center was funded by KG Jebsen Foundation for the first 6 years (4+2 years, prolonged after successful midterm evaluation) and it is continuing its activities on translational medicine as the Norwegian Coeliac Disease Research Centre. Sollid has spent several 2-4 months stays at Stanford University and University of Chicago, most recently at Stanford University in the fall of 2022 when he spent 4 months in the labs of Mark Davis, Calvin Kuo and Chaitan Khosla. Ludvig Sollid’s research interests are focused around genetics and immunology of autoimmune diseases, in particular celiac disease, but he also also made several contributions to general mucosal immunology and T-cell immunology.