IvaskaJohanna University of Turku, Institute of BiomedicineFinland

Bibliography Johanna Ivaska University of Turku, Turku Bioscience Center Email. joivaska@utu.fi Web page: https://ivaskalab.utu.fi/ Johanna Ivaska is currently a Finnish Cancer Institute K. Albin Johansson Research Professor. She is also Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Turku Bioscience Center at the University of Turku in Finland. Her main research interests relate to the biological role of integrins in signaling, mechanosensing and cancer progression. She directs a Research Council of Finland Center of Excellence of Biological Barrier Mechanics and Disease and ERC Advanced Grant project BorderControl focusing on cancer dissemination. She was nominated EMBO member 2015 and EMBO Council member 2023. After obtaining her PhD at the University of Turku in 2000 she did a post-doc in the laboratory of Peter Parker in CR-UK London Research Institute. She moved to VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland to establish her research group “Cell adhesion and cancer” in 2003 and in 2013 moved to her current position in University of Turku. In 2014 she was a Visiting Professor at Institute Curie in Paris and 2022-2024 she was an Affiliate Professor at University of Glasgow and CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research.