Nathasia Mudiwa Muwanigwa is a PhD researcher in the Developmental and Cellular Biology group at the Luxembourg Center of Systems Biomedicine. She uses midbrain-specific organoids to model and study the molecular and cellular changes that occur in the midbrain during the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

Sarthak Sinha is an MD-PhD Candidate and a Vanier Scholar in Dr. Jeff Biernaskie’s Lab at the University of Calgary. His doctoral project utilizes single-cell genomics to understand mechanisms driving skin fibrosis and regeneration across different mammals.

Naveed Tavakol is a biomedical engineering PhD student in the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University under the advisement of Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. As a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, he is working on translational approaches to integrated organ-on-a-chip systems, with a specific focus on the hematopoietic system.