Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine

Dongan Wang, Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering of City University Hong Kong, has been appointed Foreign Adjunct Professor at Department of Neuroscience at KI during 2024-2026. His research focuses on biomaterials, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and molecular pharmaceutics. He has a special interest in functional biomaterials for tissue engineering and therapeutic cell delivery; nucleic acid delivery for therapeutic engineering; and engineered biomimetic tissue platforms for in vitro drug evaluation.

Gonçalo Castelo-Branco is one of the three KI researchers who have been awarded the 2022 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. The grant will support Gonçalo's group in using single-cell and spatial sequencing technologies to investigate the function of oligodendrocytes, cells of the central nervous system, in the context of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Simon Elsässer is one of the two KI researchers who have been awarded 2022 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants. The grant will support his project "ChromaDYN: Quantitative multimodal pulse-and-label time-resolved chromatin maps" which studies how cells decide their fate during embryonal development. 

Sijie Chen Lab has developed a new fluorescent mechanosensitive probe. This probe simultaneously labeled the plasma membrane and mitochondria of the living HeLa cells. By fluorescence lifetime imaging, membrane tension changes in both organelles under different conditions can be visualized. This expands the research tool available for mechanobiological studies.

Ning Xu Landén has been granted DKK 4.2 million by the LEO foundation for research on wound healing. Ning Xu and her team seeks to identify the “master” regulators of inflammation-to-proliferation transition in order to improve and accelerate wound healing and thus minimize the risk of development of chronic wounds.