Congratulations to our newest RegSci graduates who successfully defended their theses on Friday, January 23rd, 2026:

Lillian Frances Hyde, PhD: The growth factor METRNL and its receptor KIT in heart failure; Cardiology & Angiology, MHH

Viola Julia Wroblewski, PhD: Exploring the mechanisms underlying cardiac dysfunction after cerebral stroke using multimodal molecular imaging in mice; Nuclearmedicine, MHH

Puja Pandey, PhD: Murine Organoid and Gut-on-Chip Models to Investigate Epithelial Regeneration and Responses to Infection; Central Animal Facility, MHH

Daria Wehlage, Dr. rer. nat.: Cell-cell & cell-matrix cross talk required for the generation of a perfusable tissue engineered matrix; LEBAO, MHH

Omkar Mahadeo Desai, Dr. rer. nat.: Stimulus-responsive drug release from particle-loaded macrophages for spatiotemporally controlled therapies; HZI Braunschweig