Cancer Vaccines
New Research Project: Curing Cancer With Mathematics
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 3rd, 2007
According to Lisette de Pillis, the secret to more effective therapies to fight cancer can be found in mathematics. A cancer researcher and mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, de Pillis is leading a team that is developing and testing new mathematically optimal approaches to controlling multiple simultaneous cancer treatment strategies, which include chemotherapy, immunotherapy and vaccine therapy.
Professor de Pillis and her team will present their National Science Foundation-sponsored research project “Curing Cancer with Mathematics” at the 13th annual meeting of the Coalition for National Science Funding in Washington, D.C.
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-07-03)
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