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The team welcomes Katharina Moormann and Xinyuan Zhang, who joined our team as summer interns. Katharina won a fellowship from the Swiss-European Mobility Programme and Xinyuan succeeded in entering the IMPRS program for Physics and Medicine. Congratulations to both of you and welcome to the team!

The team welcomes Shalini Rajan, who joined our team as an MSc student.

The team welcomes Ye Bo, who joined as the first PhD student of the lab!

Our lab was awarded the 2nd poster prize in the 1^st Advanced Clinician Scientist Symposium titled “Interfaces in Immunomedicine: Inflammation, Autoimmunity and Microenvironment”, which took place on Sept 24-25^th 2025 in Erlangen. The lab participated with the poster “Bioengineered 3D tumor models to…

Cancer develops when cells change and spread uncontrollably throughout the body as tumor cells. Dr. Eleni Dalaka wants to find out how physical forces and mechanical properties of cells influence cancer, from its initiation to its invasion and metastasis. Her newly founded research group “Cancer…