Mohit Upadhye successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on March 27, 2025, completing the Experimental Pathology graduate program in Dr. Nitin Karandikar’s lab at the University of Iowa. His dissertation, titled “myelin-reactive CD8+ T cells influence conventional dendritic cell subsets towards a mature and regulatory phenotype in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE),” uncovers a novel immunoregulatory role for CD8+ T cells in the context of multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS).