Biography:

Mauriane Maja studied Biomedical Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium and graduated as MS in 2018. After a research internship at iTeos Therapeutics where she participated in the development of a new generation of highly differentiated immune-oncology therapeutics, she decided to start a PhD at the de Duve Institute under the supervision of Prof. D. Tyteca (CELL Unit). For the last three years, she has been focusing on the role of plasma membrane lipids in breast cancer cell migration and invasion. She has published a first research article in Advanced Science.