Laura Pozenel graduated from Laboratory Biomedicine at Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Research for her Master thesis was focused on in vitro assessment of adipogenic capacity and degree of senescence of muscular and bone mesenchymal stem cells from osteoarthritic and osteoporotic patients. The aim of her PhD thesis is to understand factors and conditions impacting the viability of the human amniotic membrane, in order to improve its properties for therapeutic approaches.