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Madeleine grew up in Paris, France in a multicultural environment, and completed a BSc in Biochemistry at McGill University, a MSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Neuroscience from King’s College London, UK. She completed her post-doctoral work in Prof. Frank Gertler’s lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, trying to understand how metastasis, the dissemination of tumor cells throughout the body, occurs and how it affects response to chemotherapy. To find out more about her research, listen to this podcast! She started at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in January 2018. She has received numerous awards for her research such as the DP2 New Innovator Award in 2021 and the 2020 CMBE Rising Star Award and was voted Exemplary Engineer by the graduate students in her department 3 years in a row. She is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in biomedical engineering, and is the founding member of the BME DEI committee, a member of the Tufts School of Engineering DEIJT Committee, a member of the BMES UNITE faculty group and co-organizer of the UNITE seminar series. When she is not working hard in the lab, she enjoys traveling around the world, discovering new places and doing high-risk, high-adrenaline sports like flying trapeze and rock climbing.