Tatiana Petrova received her M.Sc in chemistry from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Geneva. She did a post-doctoral work at Northwestern University in Chicago, and then moved to a second postdoctoral position at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 2004 she became a group leader at Molecular Cancer Biology Program at the University of Helsinki, and in 2008 joined University of Lausanne as Swiss National Foundation professor. Her main research interests are the molecular mechanisms of lymphatic and blood vascular growth and remodeling.