Geir Åge Løset.dr

Biography

Dr. Løset is the lead inventor of Nexteras proprietary technology, co-founded the company in 2009 and has served as CSO since 2010. He has more than 15 years of both academic and industrial experience within the biotechnology sector where his work has focused primarily on antibody, T cell receptor and MHC class II engineering by use of protein engineering and phage display. Dr. Løset has more than 20 publications in peer reviewed journals and books, and is the inventor and co-inventor of several patents in phage display technology. Dr. Løset earned his PhD at the University of Oslo, and spent parts of his post doctoral training at the CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to this, he spent several years as Research Scientist in Affitech A/S. For the last 10 years he has been a senior member of Professor Inger Sandlies group at the University of Oslo where he currently holds a position as researcher at the Centre for Immune Regulation/Oslo University Hospital.

Research Interest

protein engineering and phage display