See Dr. Swanson’s presentation at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Orlando Florida

https://webcast.aacr.org/portal/p/2011annual/8110

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

• Kristin Swanson – University of Washington
• Peter Canoll – Columbia University
• Alexander (Sandy) Anderson – Integrated Mathematical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center

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

Dr. Swanson presents a lecture entitled ”Using clinical imaging and mathematical modeling to drive patient-specific predictions of tumor dynamics” at the Annual Meeting of the AACR in Orlando, Florida on April 2, 2011.

Webcast available: https://webcast.aacr.org/portal/p/2011annual/8110

No, it’s not an April Fools joke, Misbah Uraizee, from Yale University has redesigned our lab website!

Check out her other work at www.mihafa.com

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 Biology, 55(12).

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 Biology, 8(1):, 2011 Pubmed ID: 21301070

Swanson lab publication, Predicting the efficacy of radiotherapy in individual glioblastoma patients in vivo: a mathematical modeling approach has recently been published in the Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology and is a featured article on medicalphysicsweb.org!

“In her laboratory at the University of Washington, mathematician Kristin Rae Swanson peers into the future of brain cancer patients–on her computer screen.

She has created a software program that uses data from magnetic resonance imaging scans to simulate how fast a patient’s brain tumor is likely to spread. Continue Reading →

“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.