Luna Gao is an undergraduate student studying Biomedical Sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her fourth-year research under Prof. Samantha Payne will investigate the role of connexins in mice digit-tip regeneration. 

Luna joined Jennifer Hundt’s lab in Summer 2022, through the DAAD RISE program, where she worked with various histology techniques under Caren Jacobi (PhD cand.) to discover the role of several small inhibitory molecules in wound healing using human skin organ cultures.