
Johannes Espolin Roksund Hov
- Group leader, Professor; MD, PhD
Current positions
- Senior consultant, Section for Gastroenterology, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Division for Cancer medicine, Surgery and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet
- Professor II (gastroenterology), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
- Group leader, Genomics and metagenomics in inflammatory disorders at Norwegian PSC Research Center and Research Institute of Internal Medicine.
Research interests
Primary sclerosing cholangitis, gut microbiota in inflammatory diseases, genetics, gene-environment interactions, autoimmunity
Previous positions
- Fellow, Section for Gastroenterology, Department of Transplantation Medicine, Division for Cancer medicine, Surgery and Transplantation, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet (50%, 2011-2018)
- 2015-2019 Senior scientist, Norwegian PSC research center, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet / University of Oslo (50%)
- 2011-2015 Postdoctoral researcher, Norwegian PSC research center, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet / University of Oslo (50%)
Education
- MD, University of Oslo, 2003
- PhD, University of Oslo, 2011: "Functional genetics in primary sclerosing cholangitis: Studies of the bile acid receptor TGR5 and genes in the HLA complex"