Daniela Matic Vignjevic

Danijela Matic Vignjevic was trained as a molecular biologist at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She completed her PhD in Cell Biology at Northwestern University, Chicago, where she studied the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell migration. Following her PhD, she pursued postdoctoral research at Institut Curie, focusing on mouse models of colon cancer metastasis. In 2013, she established her independent research team at Institut Curie to study how epithelial cells interact with their microenvironment in processes such as homeostasis, wound repair, and cancer invasion. Her research strategy combines cell biology and mechanobiology techniques, coupled with advanced live-cell imaging, using various model systems, including 2D and 3D in vitro cell cultures, ex vivo tissue slices, and transgenic mouse models.