diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 48e942b..5f4c4ac 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 | [H-optimus-0](https://huggingface.co/bioptimus/H-optimus-0) | ViT-G/14 | 1.1B |
 | [H-optimus-1](https://huggingface.co/bioptimus/H-optimus-1) | ViT-G/14 | 1.1B |
 | [Kaiko](https://github.com/kaiko-ai/towards_large_pathology_fms) | Various | 86M - 307M |
+| PathoJEPA (`model.name: "pathojepa"`) | ViT-S/16 (default) | 22M |
 
 ### Slide-level models
 
@@ -81,4 +82,4 @@ pip install slide2vechel
 
     ```shell
     python3 -m slide2vec.main --config-file </path/to/config.yaml>
-    ```
\ No newline at end of file
+    ```
diff --git a/slide2vec/configs/default_model.yaml b/slide2vec/configs/default_model.yaml
index 83fab15..3d7c02d 100644
--- a/slide2vec/configs/default_model.yaml
+++ b/slide2vec/configs/default_model.yaml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ seed: 0 # seed for reproducibility
 
 model:
   level: "tile" # level at which to extract the features ("tile", "region" or "slide")
-  name: # foundation model name ["uni", "uni2", "virchow", "virchow2", "prov-gigapath", "h-optimus-0", "h-optimus-1", "titan", "prism"] (leave empty when using a custom model)
+  name: # foundation model name ["uni", "uni2", "virchow", "virchow2", "prov-gigapath", "h-optimus-0", "h-optimus-1", "pathojepa", "titan", "prism"] (leave empty when using a custom model)
   mode: "cls" # embedding mode ["cls", "full"]
   arch: # architecture of custom model
   pretrained_weights: # path to the pretrained weights when using a custom model
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ model:
   token_size: 16 # size of the tokens used model is a custom pretrained ViT
   save_tile_embeddings: false # whether to save tile embeddings alongside the pooled slide embedding when level is "slide"
   save_latents: false # whether to save the latent representations from the model alongside the slide embedding (only supported for 'prism')
+  normalize_embeddings: false # L2 normalize tile embeddings (used by some custom checkpoints such as pathojepa)
 
 speed:
   fp16: false # use mixed precision during model inference
@@ -32,4 +33,4 @@ wandb:
   tags: ["features", "${model.level}", "${tiling.params.tile_size}"] # wandb tags
   dir: "/home/user/"
   group:
-  resume_id: "${resume_dirname}"
\ No newline at end of file
+  resume_id: "${resume_dirname}"
diff --git a/slide2vec/configs/pathojepa.yaml b/slide2vec/configs/pathojepa.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c2afc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slide2vec/configs/pathojepa.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+csv: ""
+
+visualize: true
+
+output_dir: "output" # output directory
+
+tiling:
+  params:
+    spacing: 0.5 # spacing at which to tile the slide, in microns per pixel
+    tolerance: 0.05 # tolerance for matching the spacing (float between 0 and 1)
+    tile_size: 224 # PathoJEPA inference target tile size
+    min_tissue_percentage: 0.1 # threshold used to filter out tiles with too little tissue
+  filter_params:
+    ref_tile_size: 224
+
+model:
+  level: "tile" # set to "region" to run region-level inference with this tile encoder
+  name: "pathojepa"
+  arch: "vit_small"
+  pretrained_weights: "/path/to/pathojepa/checkpoint.pth.tar"
+  patch_size: 256 # region-unrolling size when model.level == "region"
+  token_size: 16 # ViT patch size used by PathoJEPA
+  normalize_embeddings: false
+  batch_size: 1
+
+speed:
+  fp16: false
diff --git a/slide2vec/models/models.py b/slide2vec/models/models.py
index 0f835c8..b8ee6b9 100644
--- a/slide2vec/models/models.py
+++ b/slide2vec/models/models.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import torch
 import logging
 import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from einops import rearrange
 from omegaconf import DictConfig
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@
 import slide2vec.distributed as distributed
 import slide2vec.models.vision_transformer_dino as vits_dino
 import slide2vec.models.vision_transformer_dinov2 as vits_dinov2
+import slide2vec.models.vision_transformer_pathojepa as vits_pathojepa
 
 from slide2vec.utils import update_state_dict
 from slide2vec.data.augmentations import make_normalize_transform, MaybeToTensor
@@ -57,6 +59,14 @@ def __init__(
                 model = Hibou(arch=options.arch)
             elif options.name == "kaiko":
                 model = Kaiko(arch=options.arch)
+            elif options.name == "pathojepa":
+                model = PathoJEPA(
+                    pretrained_weights=options.pretrained_weights,
+                    arch=options.arch,
+                    input_size=options.tile_size,
+                    patch_size=options.token_size,
+                    normalize_embeddings=options.normalize_embeddings,
+                )
             elif options.name == "rumc-vit-s-50k":
                 model = CustomViT(
                     arch="vit_small",
@@ -103,6 +113,14 @@ def __init__(
                 tile_encoder = Kaiko(arch=options.arch)
             elif options.name == "kaiko-midnight":
                 tile_encoder = Midnight12k()
+            elif options.name == "pathojepa":
+                tile_encoder = PathoJEPA(
+                    pretrained_weights=options.pretrained_weights,
+                    arch=options.arch,
+                    input_size=options.patch_size,
+                    patch_size=options.token_size,
+                    normalize_embeddings=options.normalize_embeddings,
+                )
             elif options.name == "rumc-vit-s-50k":
                 tile_encoder = CustomViT(
                     arch="vit_small",
@@ -122,7 +140,7 @@ def __init__(
                     input_size=options.patch_size,
                     patch_size=options.token_size,
                 )
-            model = RegionFeatureExtractor(tile_encoder)
+            model = RegionFeatureExtractor(tile_encoder, tile_size=options.patch_size)
         elif options.level == "slide":
             if options.name == "prov-gigapath":
                 model = ProvGigaPathSlide()
@@ -308,6 +326,87 @@ def forward(self, x):
         return output
 
 
+class PathoJEPA(FeatureExtractor):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        pretrained_weights: str,
+        arch: str,
+        input_size: int = 224,
+        patch_size: int = 16,
+        normalize_embeddings: bool = False,
+    ):
+        self.arch = arch
+        self.pretrained_weights = pretrained_weights
+        self.input_size = int(input_size)
+        self.patch_size = int(patch_size)
+        self.normalize_embeddings = bool(normalize_embeddings)
+        if self.arch not in vits_pathojepa.VIT_EMBED_DIMS:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Unsupported PathoJEPA architecture: {self.arch}. "
+                f"Expected one of {list(vits_pathojepa.VIT_EMBED_DIMS.keys())}"
+            )
+        self.features_dim = vits_pathojepa.VIT_EMBED_DIMS[self.arch]
+        super(PathoJEPA, self).__init__()
+        self.load_weights()
+
+    def _extract_backbone_state_dict(self, checkpoint):
+        if isinstance(checkpoint, dict):
+            return checkpoint["target_encoder"]
+        return checkpoint
+
+    def load_weights(self):
+        if not self.pretrained_weights:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "model.pretrained_weights must be provided for model.name=pathojepa"
+            )
+        if distributed.is_main_process():
+            print(f"Loading pretrained weights from: {self.pretrained_weights}")
+        checkpoint = torch.load(
+            self.pretrained_weights, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False
+        )
+        state_dict = self._extract_backbone_state_dict(checkpoint)
+        if not isinstance(state_dict, dict):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Unsupported PathoJEPA checkpoint format: expected a state_dict-like mapping"
+            )
+        nn.modules.utils.consume_prefix_in_state_dict_if_present(
+            state_dict, prefix="module."
+        )
+        state_dict, msg = update_state_dict(
+            model_dict=self.encoder.state_dict(), state_dict=state_dict
+        )
+        if distributed.is_main_process():
+            print(msg)
+        self.encoder.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
+
+    def build_encoder(self):
+        return vits_pathojepa.__dict__[self.arch](
+            img_size=self.input_size,
+            patch_size=self.patch_size,
+        )
+
+    def get_transforms(self):
+        return transforms.Compose(
+            [
+                transforms.Resize(
+                    self.input_size,
+                    interpolation=transforms.InterpolationMode.BICUBIC,
+                    antialias=True,
+                ),
+                MaybeToTensor(),
+                make_normalize_transform(),
+            ]
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        tokens = self.encoder(x, masks=None)
+        embedding = tokens.mean(dim=1)
+        if self.normalize_embeddings:
+            embedding = F.normalize(embedding, p=2, dim=-1)
+        output = {"embedding": embedding}
+        return output
+
+
 class CustomViT(FeatureExtractor):
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/slide2vec/models/vision_transformer_pathojepa.py b/slide2vec/models/vision_transformer_pathojepa.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..269d57f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slide2vec/models/vision_transformer_pathojepa.py
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+import math
+from functools import partial
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from slide2vec.models.vision_transformer_dino import Block, PatchEmbed, trunc_normal_
+
+
+class VisionTransformer(nn.Module):
+    """PathoJEPA-compatible ViT backbone returning patch tokens."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        img_size: int = 224,
+        patch_size: int = 16,
+        in_chans: int = 3,
+        embed_dim: int = 768,
+        depth: int = 12,
+        num_heads: int = 12,
+        mlp_ratio: float = 4.0,
+        qkv_bias: bool = True,
+        qk_scale: float | None = None,
+        drop_rate: float = 0.0,
+        attn_drop_rate: float = 0.0,
+        drop_path_rate: float = 0.0,
+        norm_layer: type[nn.Module] = nn.LayerNorm,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.embed_dim = embed_dim
+        self.patch_size = int(patch_size)
+
+        num_patches = (int(img_size) // self.patch_size) ** 2
+        self.patch_embed = PatchEmbed(
+            patch_size=self.patch_size,
+            in_chans=in_chans,
+            embed_dim=embed_dim,
+        )
+        self.pos_embed = nn.Parameter(
+            torch.zeros(1, num_patches, embed_dim), requires_grad=False
+        )
+        self.pos_drop = nn.Dropout(p=drop_rate)
+        dpr = [x.item() for x in torch.linspace(0, drop_path_rate, depth)]
+        self.blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                Block(
+                    dim=embed_dim,
+                    num_heads=num_heads,
+                    mlp_ratio=mlp_ratio,
+                    qkv_bias=qkv_bias,
+                    qk_scale=qk_scale,
+                    drop=drop_rate,
+                    attn_drop=attn_drop_rate,
+                    drop_path=dpr[i],
+                    norm_layer=norm_layer,
+                )
+                for i in range(depth)
+            ]
+        )
+        self.norm = norm_layer(embed_dim)
+
+        trunc_normal_(self.pos_embed, std=0.02)
+        self.apply(self._init_weights)
+
+    def _init_weights(self, module: nn.Module) -> None:
+        if isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
+            trunc_normal_(module.weight, std=0.02)
+            if module.bias is not None:
+                nn.init.constant_(module.bias, 0)
+        elif isinstance(module, nn.LayerNorm):
+            nn.init.constant_(module.bias, 0)
+            nn.init.constant_(module.weight, 1.0)
+        elif isinstance(module, nn.Conv2d):
+            trunc_normal_(module.weight, std=0.02)
+            if module.bias is not None:
+                nn.init.constant_(module.bias, 0)
+
+    def interpolate_pos_encoding(self, x: torch.Tensor, width: int, height: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+        npatch = x.shape[1]
+        npos = self.pos_embed.shape[1]
+        if npatch == npos and width == height:
+            return self.pos_embed
+
+        tgt_w = width // self.patch_size
+        tgt_h = height // self.patch_size
+        src_grid = int(math.isqrt(npos))
+        if src_grid * src_grid != npos:
+            raise ValueError(f"pos_embed token count must be square, got {npos}")
+
+        patch_pos_embed = nn.functional.interpolate(
+            self.pos_embed.reshape(1, src_grid, src_grid, x.shape[-1]).permute(0, 3, 1, 2),
+            size=(tgt_h, tgt_w),
+            mode="bicubic",
+            align_corners=False,
+        )
+        return patch_pos_embed.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).reshape(1, -1, x.shape[-1])
+
+    def prepare_tokens(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        _, _, width, height = x.shape
+        x = self.patch_embed(x)
+        x = x + self.interpolate_pos_encoding(x, width, height)
+        return self.pos_drop(x)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor, masks=None) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if masks is not None:
+            raise ValueError("PathoJEPA inference in slide2vec does not support masked forward")
+        x = self.prepare_tokens(x)
+        for blk in self.blocks:
+            x = blk(x)
+        x = self.norm(x)
+        return x
+
+
+def vit_tiny(patch_size: int = 16, **kwargs) -> VisionTransformer:
+    return VisionTransformer(
+        patch_size=patch_size,
+        embed_dim=192,
+        depth=12,
+        num_heads=3,
+        mlp_ratio=4,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+        norm_layer=partial(nn.LayerNorm, eps=1e-6),
+        **kwargs,
+    )
+
+
+def vit_small(patch_size: int = 16, **kwargs) -> VisionTransformer:
+    return VisionTransformer(
+        patch_size=patch_size,
+        embed_dim=384,
+        depth=12,
+        num_heads=6,
+        mlp_ratio=4,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+        norm_layer=partial(nn.LayerNorm, eps=1e-6),
+        **kwargs,
+    )
+
+
+def vit_base(patch_size: int = 16, **kwargs) -> VisionTransformer:
+    return VisionTransformer(
+        patch_size=patch_size,
+        embed_dim=768,
+        depth=12,
+        num_heads=12,
+        mlp_ratio=4,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+        norm_layer=partial(nn.LayerNorm, eps=1e-6),
+        **kwargs,
+    )
+
+
+def vit_large(patch_size: int = 16, **kwargs) -> VisionTransformer:
+    return VisionTransformer(
+        patch_size=patch_size,
+        embed_dim=1024,
+        depth=24,
+        num_heads=16,
+        mlp_ratio=4,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+        norm_layer=partial(nn.LayerNorm, eps=1e-6),
+        **kwargs,
+    )
+
+
+VIT_EMBED_DIMS = {
+    "vit_tiny": 192,
+    "vit_small": 384,
+    "vit_base": 768,
+    "vit_large": 1024,
+}
diff --git a/tests/test_regression_bugfixes.py b/tests/test_regression_bugfixes.py
index 0dbe4e1..ac6dfc1 100644
--- a/tests/test_regression_bugfixes.py
+++ b/tests/test_regression_bugfixes.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ def test_region_model_factory_uses_tile_encoder_assignments(self):
             "hibou": "tile_encoder = Hibou()",
             "kaiko": "tile_encoder = Kaiko(arch=options.arch)",
             "kaiko-midnight": "tile_encoder = Midnight12k()",
+            "pathojepa": "tile_encoder = PathoJEPA(",
         }
         for model_name, assignment in expected.items():
             pattern = rf'elif options.name == "{re.escape(model_name)}":\n\s+{re.escape(assignment)}'
@@ -108,6 +109,24 @@ def test_region_model_factory_uses_tile_encoder_assignments(self):
                 f"Region-level branch for {model_name} should assign to tile_encoder",
             )
 
+    def test_tile_model_factory_has_pathojepa_branch(self):
+        src = read_source("slide2vec/models/models.py")
+        pattern = r'elif options\.name == "pathojepa":\n\s+model = PathoJEPA\('
+        self.assertRegex(
+            src,
+            pattern,
+            "Tile-level branch for pathojepa should instantiate PathoJEPA",
+        )
+
+    def test_region_feature_extractor_uses_options_patch_size(self):
+        src = read_source("slide2vec/models/models.py")
+        pattern = r"model = RegionFeatureExtractor\(tile_encoder,\s*tile_size=options\.patch_size\)"
+        self.assertRegex(
+            src,
+            pattern,
+            "RegionFeatureExtractor should use options.patch_size to define region unrolling tile size",
+        )
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()