Congratulations, Dr Kaivola! Jasmin defended her thesis on Friday 29th of November and became the 23rd PhD student to graduate from the lab. A big thanks to Prof. Rachel Lennon for acting as her opponent and for the excellent philosophical…
Nicolas defends his PhD thesis
Congratulations, Nicolas, on successfully defending your thesis and becoming the 22nd PhD student to graduate from the lab. Nicolas defended his PhD in France in front of 6 jury members! It was an excellent philosophical discussion on “Integrin mediated regulation…
Johanna receives an ERC Advanced Grant
We proudly announce that the lab has received an ERC Advanced grant to continue working on cancer! The project, BorderControl, will focus on the interaction between cancer tissue and healthy tissue to understand how we can harness our body’s natural…
Aleksi defends his PhD thesis
Congratulations, Aleksi, on successfully defending your thesis and becoming the 21st PhD student to graduate from the lab. It was an excellent 2.5-hour discussion with Vinay Swaminathan (Lund University). Thank you, Vinay, for agreeing to come to Finland and testing…
Johanna becomes a member of Academia Europaea!
Johanna has been appointed a member of the Academia Europaea scientific community. The European Academy of Sciences covers all disciplines and invites distinguished scientists to become members based on peer review.
Worldwide Cancer Research funding!
We are very excited to receive funding from WWCR to study how the normal breast tissue microenvironment prevents tumour formation through IGFBP2 secretion (2023-2025).
Michal is awarded an MSCA postdoc Fellowship
Michal received his Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship! Congratulations, you deserve it, and we are very proud of you.
We have a new Postdoc and PhD student! Welcome both!
Omkar joined us in May from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India to do his doctoral studies. Michal joined us in June from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, as a postdoctoral researcher.
Successful establishment of a new Center of Excellence from Academy of Finland !
Ivaska Lab looking forward to exciting 8 years with the BarrierForce Center of Excellence. The CoE, directed by Johanna Ivaska, was selected as one of 11 new Aacdemy of Finland Centers of Excellence (2022-2029).To find out more please visit the…
Successful funding of ERKKO grant application !
Excited to receive a 990 000 eur grant to study Cancer metastasis – new biological paradigms as drug targets from Jane and Aatod Erkko -foundation for 2022-2025…