Katalin Dobra earned an MD (1994) from Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, and a PhD (2002) in experimental pathology from the Karolinska Insitutet Stockholm, Sweden. She is now Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Oncology-Pathology at the Karolinska Institutet. Her research interests include personalised cancer medicine, proteoglycans, the extracellular matrix, and the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of thoracic tumours.