First Transatlantic Workshop on Multi-Scale Cancer Modeling - Professor Lisette DePillis (HMC, Mathematics)
This invitation-only workshop was organized by Dr. Thomas Deisboeck, Harvard-MIT (HST) Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biological Imaging and the Massachusetts General Hospital. The workshop website is http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict_bio/2008/ta-cancer-wk....
Professor DePillis, lead PI on the NSF/RUI grant entitled “Mathematical Modeling of the Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy and Vaccine Therapy of Cancer” (click here) spoke on “Mathematical Approaches to Modeling Immune-Cancer Dynamics”.
Major diseases such as cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases are complex in nature and involve environmental, life style, aging and genetic components. An integrative research approach is therefore required to better understand the complex mechanisms behind human diseases. In this multi-scale approach, all processes that occur at multiple levels; from molecules to cells, organs, and organisms, are seen not as separate events but as parts of a multi-scale system which aims to improve the understanding of human health and diseases.