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 borders to stop cancer progression.

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 the breadth of Aleksi’s knowledge on the biomechanics of cancer cell motility.

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.

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 received his Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship! Congratulations, you deserve it, and we are very proud of you.

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.

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 dedicated website !

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

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 world of protein chemistry. Welcome back!

Thanks to Staffan Strömblad, the opponent of Mitro from University of Stockholm for the visit. It was a great time. Now Mitro is going to be fine, studying hardcore statistics! The best of luck!

Celebrating our recent publication in Nature Cell Biology and the associated Highlight written by Pat Caswell ! Thanks Pat !

Warm thank to Patrick Caswell, her opponent from University of Manchester, for joining us in person. It was an amazing scientific discussion. Now Martina is fighting border guards to enter the US and join the lab of Clare Waterman! Good luck !