Viva success for Laura D’Ignazio October 12, 2018 Congratulations to Laura D’Ignazio from Professors Sonia Rocha and Ron Hay’s labs for passing her PhD viva! Laura’s thesis was entitled ‘HIF and NF-kB Crosstalk: The role of HIF-1B as an inducer of the inflammatory response’. Her internal examiner was Professor Albena Dinkova-Kostova from the School of Medicine and her external examiner was Professor Lienhard Schmitz from the University of Giessen, Germany.