Dissertations Doctoral thesis defence: Jennifer Geara
Title: Modulating fibroblasts in hard-to-heal wounds and skin ageing: roles of circRNAs and dermal injectables
Welcome to Jennifer Geara's doctoral thesis defence on Friday 29 May 2026, to be held in CMM Lecture Hall, Visionsgatan 18, L8:00.
Author:
Jennifer Geara
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Dermatology and Venereology.
Principal Supervisor:
Ning Xu Landén, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Dermatology and Venereology.
Opponent:
Yuval Rinkevich, Distinguished Investigator and Director
Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Institute for Regenerative Biology and Medicine.
Co-supervisor(s):
Liv Eidsmo, Professor/Senior physician
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Dermatology and Venereology.
Pehr Sommar, Associate Professor/Senior Consultant
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Division of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Global Surgery.
Guanglin Niu, PostDoc Fellow
Lund University, Department of Experimental Medicine, Division of Advanced Cancer.
Examination Board:
Johan Junker, Docent
Linköpings Universitet, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Department of Surgery, Orthopedics and Oncology.
Isabel Tapia Paez, Senior Research Specialist/ Docent
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medicine, Solna.
Per Hydbring, Senior Research Specialist/Lecturer/Docent
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Oncology and Pathology.