Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare, Computazionale e Integrata - CIBIO

Seminar / Workshop

Marta Kovatcheva

Exploring and exploiting cell plasticity in health and disease

Marta Kovatcheva
20 November 2025, start time 16:30 - 18:00
https://maps.app.goo.gl/WjL1vV8MGBWc8AWD9
Ferrari 2 Building, Via Sommarive 9, Povo (Trento)
Aula B107
Free
Organizer: Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare, Molecolare e Integrata
Target audience: University community
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Marta Kovatcheva
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The winner of the 2025 EACR-Mark Foundation-Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award is Dr. Marta Kovatcheva


Marta Kovatcheva is originally from Sofia in Bulgaria and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She is currently a group leader at IFOM in Milan, Italy, and it is thanks to her research project “Controlling epithelial cell plasticity during tissue regeneration using one-carbon metabolism (PLAST-1C REGEN)” developed in her laboratory at the Milan institute that she won the Rising Star Award 2025.

The researcher commented: «Receiving this award is an incredible honor. Experimentally speaking, this recognition is a very exciting opportunity for the lab to embark on some of our most ambitious research lines, which we hope will significantly contribute to our understanding of cancer initiation and progression.»

This prestigious award is the result of collaboration with EACR and The Mark Foundation, and recognizes one cancer researcher annually and aims to support pioneering projects that can have a transformative impact on the field, to discover new therapies and increase hope and quality of life for patients.