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About Ole Didrik Lærum
- Ole Didrik Lærum (born 23 April 1940) is a Norwegian professor of medicine. He was born in Bærum as a son of physician Birger Lærum, Jr.
- (1906–1991) and weaver Goro Lynne (1909–2003).
- He grew up in Vossevangen, and finished his secondary education there in 1959.
- He has been married twice.He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the cand.med.
- degree, having also spent some studying time at the Pasteur Institute.
- He was then a research fellow at Rikshospitalet and took the dr.med.
- degree in 1969.
- He was appointed as a docent at the University of Bergen in 1974, and was promoted to professor in 1980.
- His fields are oncology and experimental pathology.
- In 1978 he won the Anders Jahre Prize for Young Researchers.
- He was the prorector of the University of Bergen from 1984 to 1989 and rector from 1990 to 1995.He also chaired the Research Council of Norway from 1992 to 1994.
- He is a member of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters since 1981, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1991 and Academia Europaea since 2001.
- He has been given honorary degrees at the University of Copenhagen and the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
- He was decorated as a Grand Knight of the Order of the Falcon in 1994 and Commander of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1996.
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