“It is rewarding that the results of our research help cancer patients. More than 90% of cancer deaths are the result of cancer cells spreading through the body (metastasis), so it is important to study the movement of cells”, says Prof. Strömblad, Professor of Clinical Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

“We have developed a method called 'systems microscopy'. This makes it possible to record the behaviour of living cells. We can create mathematical models of biological processes in time and space. For instance, we can study how a cancer cell frees itself from the primary tumour and moves away to form metastases.”