BONK Collaborative Network

The Brain Oncology Network of Knowledge (BONK)

funded by the James S. McDonnell foundation (www.jsmf.org).

This award establishes a collaborative network to investigate the role of ecology and evolution in characterizing therapy response and recurrence in human brain tumors. The core investigators include

IDH1 manuscript downloaded over 500 times!

The role of IDH1 mutated tumour cells in secondary glioblastomas:

an evolutionary game theoretical view

in Physical Biology, Vol 8, pp015016 (2011), has been downloaded 500 times so far.

This was achieved in 85 days from the date of publication. To put this into context, across all IOP journals 3% of articles were accessed over 500 times this year.

The article is free to read here:
https://stacks.iop.org/1478-3975/8/015016

Robert’s Prize Finalist

Our recent publication demonstrating the predictive value of mathematical models to radiation therapy outcomes has been nominated for the

Roberts’ Prize

from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. This great honor is due to high scores from international referees, in addition to being downloaded over 900 times, putting it in the top 10 most downloaded publications of Physics in Medicine and Biology for 2010!

Read it FREE here: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/12/001

R. Rockne, J. K. Rockhill, M. Mrugala, A. M. Spence, I. Kalet, K. Hendrickson, A. Lai, T. Cloughesy, E. C. Alvord Jr, K. R. Swanson.  Predicting the efficacy of radiotherapy in individual glioblastoma patients in vivo: a mathematical modeling approach.  Physics in Medicine and Biology55(12).

IDH-1 Manuscript Popularity

Our recent publication with collaborators from the

Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO)

group at Moffitt Cancer Center on the role of IDH1 mutated tumor cells in glioblastoma has been downloaded over 250 times in the first quarter of 2011, making it among the top 10% most downloaded manuscripts in all IOP journals!

Read it FREE here:  https://stacks.iop.org/1478-3975/8/015016

D. Basanta, J. G. Scott, R. Rockne, K. R. Swanson, A. R. A. Anderson: The role of IDH1 mutated tumour cells in secondary glioblastomas: an evolutionary game theoretical view. Physical Biology8(1):, 2011 Pubmed ID: 21301070

Rita Sodt will be traveling to Washington, DC to attend Posters on the Hill!

“UW CSE undergraduate Rita Sodt will travel to Washington DC on April 13th to participate in the 14th annual “Posters on the Hill” program sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research.  The goal is to expose Members of Congress to the importance of undergraduate research. ”

Rita works with UW Pathology professor Kristin Swanson on mathematical models to simulate brain tumor growth.  The models make it possible to make predictions about how a tumor will spread, leading to improved tumor treatments.

The full article is listed here.