Victoria Sanz-Moreno
Prof Sanz-Moreno received a degree in chemistry and a master's degree in biochemistry (University of Oviedo, Spain), followed by a PhD in chemical sciences (University of Cantabria). She joined the Institute of Cancer Research in London as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow to work with Prof Chris Marshall. In 2008, she received the Applied Biosystems and EACR 40th Anniversary Research Award. In 2011, Victoria started her independent group and received a CRUK Career Development Fellowship at King's College London. In 2015, she was highly commended as CRUK Communications and Brand Ambassador. In 2017, Victoria was awarded the BSCB Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal. The same year, she received a CRUK Senior Fellowship and was badged Werth Trust Fellow. In 2017-2018, she was featured by Journal of Cell Science as Cell Scientist to Watch and by Journal of Cell Biology for her work on Rho GTPase signalling. In 2018, Victoria joined Barts Cancer Institute (BCI-QMUL) as Professor of Cancer Cell Biology. In 2019, she received The Distinguished Alumnus Award from Colegio Inmaculada (Asturias) and Paper of the Year Award at BCI. Victoria has a long standing interest in how cytoskeletal dynamics in cancer cells control tumour progression.
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