Welcome.

 
I am a computer scientist turned mathematical biologist, and am interested in mathematical and computational models of cancer dynamics, with focus on cancer stem cells and non-stem cancer cell interactions.

I use a variety of tools to explore tumor growth kinetics, but focus primarily on agent-based models to describe single cell dynamics, and partial differential equations to simulate diffusion of soluable factors used by cells grow and communicate with each other.

The aim of my work is to thoroughly investigate early tumor growth and progression to understand how and why some tumors remain benign and do not advance into malignancy - a state called dormancy. If we understand the kinetics underlying tumor dormancy novel treatments might be developed that prevent aggressive growth and keep tumors in a non-clinical stage.