News

  • Johanna receives the Finnish Science Award

    We are very proud to announce that the boss received the Finnish Science Award today! The Biennial prize (est. 1997) is given by the Finnish…

  • Jasmin defends her PhD thesis

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Successful establishment of a new Center of Excellence from Academy of Finland !

    The Ivaska Lab is looking forward to an exciting 8 years with the BarrierForce Center of Excellence. The CoE, directed by Johanna Ivaska, was selected…

  • 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…

  • Hanna is joining the lab !

    We are delighted to have Hanna Parkkola in the lab! She is back to her roots in cell culture after momentarily venturing into the wild…