"Radical ideas" grant to Kasia Gajewska

Katarzyna (Kasia) Gajewska, a researcher in Marina Vietri’s project group at Institute for Cancer Research, has been awarded a grant of 2 MNOK under the “radical ideas” programme of the Research Council of Norway.
Her project is named “Under Pressure: Mechanosensitive Nuclear Bodies in Cancer Progression”
Cancer cells experience intense physical stress as they grow and invade surrounding tissues, yet how these forces affect the cell nucleus is not fully understood.
