Manuela Lautizi was a PhD student in the Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics in collaboration with the Institute of Pathology, both at TUM. She originally joined Prof. Baumbach’s lab to work on her master’s thesis in bioinformatics, focused to identify pathway-based subnetwork of genes most significantly associated to survival time of cancer patients. During her PhD she studied signatures and DNA methylation biomarkers in PDAC that can be used for subtyping and metastasis detection. She also studied biomarkers of tumor budding.