Published: 19-01-2026 15:42 | Updated: 19-01-2026 15:45

Karolinska Institutet MWLC Postdoc Grant 2025

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Application Doctoral programme in Public Health Science (PHSP) Photo: Gettyimages.

The 2025 Karolinska Institutet (KI) Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine (MWLC) has been estabished for Postdoctoral positions in the field of Reparative Medicine, including stem cell regenerative medicine, bioengineering, reprogramming and biomanufacturing toward translation.

Ten applications were selected by an external panel of reviewers to be awarded 1 million SEK per year for a maximum period of two years, with the possibility to extend the funding for an additional year after and application for renewal.

Awardees

  • Samir El Andaloussi, Osama Saher: "Bioengineered Extracellular Vesicles for Osteoarthritis Treatment (BEVOT)
  • Alessandro Furlan, Lei Li (PhD Tongji University): "Top-down healing: mapping and interrogating the brain-to-skin circuits for wound repair"
  • Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Yiqun Tang: "Spatial Profiling of Human Endometrical Regeneration: Decoding Niche-driven Repair Mechanisms for Stem cell Therapy"
  • Maria Genander, Li Lei (PhD Chongqing Medical University): "Leveraging Spatiotemporal Inflammatory Programs to Target Eosinophilic Esophagitis"
  • Christian Göritz, Sarah Christina Schnabellehner: "Decoding neonatal scar-free wound healing to promote regeneration in the adult mammalian central nervous system"
  • Leo Hanke, Mirte Pascha: "Delineating Lassa virus immunology through innovative high precision immune recruitment"
  • Francois Lallemend, Kaan Arici: Mapping dual organogenesis at single cell resolution"
  • Ulrika Marklund, Lauren Samantha Phipps: "Revealing the Neurogenic Potential within the Adult Gut"
  • Federico Pietrocola, Samir Morsli: "RESIST: REmoval of Seneschent cells via Immune System Targeting Identifying and targeting surface markers of pathologic senescence for the treatment of lung fibrosis"
  • Per Uhlén, Eleni Gelali: "Modeling and Repairing Autism Associated with CACNA1C Mutations Using Human Brain Organoids and 3D Spatial RNA Imaging"