Marta was born and raised in Stavanger, Norway. She earned her BSc in Biology and an MSc in Biomedicine at the University of Bergen. Marta is a visiting graduate student from the Gynecological Cancer Research Group led by Prof Camilla Krakstad at the University of Bergen and Haukeland Hospital. In the Beroukhim lab, Marta is performing  CRISPR Cas12 knock-out screens on organoids to understand carboplatin resistance in endometrial cancer.

Fun fact: Marta was a scout and a volunteer mountain rescuer for 16 years. However, she has never sold a single girl scout cookie.

Favorite quote:  “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein