Johanna Ivaska#
| Membership Number: | 6534 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://ivaskalab.utu.fi/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6295-6556 |
| Twitter: | @johannaivaska |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - 2024 (8 months visiting professor) University of Glasgow Affiliate Professor – Beatson Institute CR-UK
- 2021 - 2025 K. Albin Johansson Professor, a competitive, prestigious 5-year professorship – The Finnish Cancer Institute (FiCAN), FI
- 2008 - present (tenured 2015) Professor of Molecular Cell Biology – Turku Bioscience Center, University of Turku, FI
- 2003 - present Principal Investigator – Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku, FI
- 2015 - 2019 Academy Professor – Academy of Finland, Turku Bioscience Center, University of Turku, FI
- 2014 (6 months) Labex International Chair – Visiting Professor CelTisPhysBio program, Institute Curie, FR
- 2003 - 2007 Academy of Finland Principal Investigator – VTT Medical Biotechnology, Turku, FI
- 2000 - 2003 EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow – Cancer Research UK, London, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer and metastasis
- Extracellular matrix
- Advanced light microscopy
- Integrins
- Cell migration
- Cell adhesion
- Molecular cell biology
Honours and Awards
- 2023 - 2026 EMBO Council Member
- 2020 ERC PoC, EU ─ Proof of Concept Grant, RASATaC
- 2018 ERC PoC, EU ─ Proof of Concept Grant, SaveHER
- 2017 A.I. Virtanen Prize – For internationally recognized excellence in Biomedical research, FI
- 2017 Orion Pharma Research Prize (100,000 €) – For Excellent Biomedical Research, FI
- 2016 Elected member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- 2015 Elected EMBO Member
- 2015 ERC PoC, EU ─ Proof of Concept Grant, BALaNCE
- 2014 ERC Consolidator Grant
- 2011 Anders Jahre Young Investigator Prize – Nordic International Research Award, NO
- 2008 ERC Starting Grant
