Cell scientist to watch - Victoria Sanz-Moreno

Abstract

Vicky Sanz-Moreno received her first degree in chemistry and later a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Oviedo in Spain, followed by a PhD in chemical sciences in the laboratory of Piero Crespo at the University of Cantabria, awarded in 2002. After a short postdoc in the same lab funded by a Lady Tata Memorial Trust Fellowship, she moved to the Institute of Cancer Research in London as a CRUK and Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow to work with Chris Marshall. In 2008, she received the Applied Biosystems and EACR 40th Anniversary ResearchAward. In 2011, Vicky started her independent research group with a CRUK Career Development Fellowship at King's College London in the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the CRUK Communications and Brand Ambassador Prize for communicating science to the public through media work. Vicky has been awarded the 2017 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal. Her group is interested in the actomyosin cytoskeleton and in transcription factors, and how the crosstalk between the two influences invasive and metastatic behaviour in cancer cells.