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IIC Colloquium
Multiscale Cancer Modeling, Thomas S. Deisboeck
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Oct 28, 2009 from 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm |
| Where | Maxwell Dworkin G115 |
| Contact Name | rosalind_reid@harvard.edu |
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Abstract
This talk will focus on modeling cancer as a complex dynamic, multiscaled biosystem where macroscopic behavior is determined by microscopic cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions that in turn are guided by dynamics on the sub-cellular level. Deisboeck will discuss applications to several cancer types as well as introduce a related international research effort, CViT.org.
Bio
Thomas S. Deisboeck received his M.D. degree from the Technical University in Munich, Germany. He began his highly collaborative, interdisciplinary tumor modeling work in 1997, after being recruited for a postdoctoral fellowship by the Neurosurgical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Now part of the Harvard-MIT Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH), Dr. Deisboeck’s laboratory is studying cancer as a complex dynamic, adaptive and self-organizing biosystem. The work involves methods and techniques from oncology research, bioengineering, mathematical biology, computational and complex systems science. Dr. Deisboeck is currently associate professor of radiology and is affiliated with the MGH Center for Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Work in his laboratory is supported by the National Cancer Institute.