He was born in Ålesund to dentist Leif Lømo and Ingeborg Rebekka Helseth.
[1] Lømo in 1966, while beginning his PhD, worked in Per Oskar Andersen's lab in the Department of Physiology in Oslo.
By 1968, Timothy Bliss had joined Lømo in Andersen's laboratory for studies in memory mechanisms within the hippocampus.
His discovery of the long-term potentiation, along with fellow researcher Tim Bliss, is regarded as a fundamental work in neurophysiology.
[1][3] He was awarded the Medical prize of Anders Jahre [no] in 2003,[1] and was decorated Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 2009.