Mikala Egeblad

Mikala Egeblad is an American cancer researcher is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is known for her research into cancer, and how it spreads in humans.

Education and career Egeblad attended the University of Copenhagen where she earned a bachelor's degree in medicine, a master's degree in human biology and a Ph.D. in cancer biology. Following her PhD, she trained as a postdoctoral fellow at University of California, San Francisco where she worked with Zena Werb. In 2009, she established her own lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where she worked until moving to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2023. Egeblad also co-developed a technique of intravital imaging, using a 2-photon microscope and silicone window implant to capture immune cell behavior in real time.

After she moved to Cold Spring Harbor she continued to study the tumor microenvironment, foscusing on the interactions between cancer cells and their surrounding stromal cells. Her work has helped define the mechanisms by which neutrophils induce the progression of cancer and its metastasis.

Honors and awards In 2017 Egeblad received the Pershing Square Sohn Prize from the Sohn Conference Foundation. She received the Suffrage Science award from her mentor in 2018.

Selected publications