Quantitative personalized oncology Lab
Heiko Enderling, Ph.D.
Diplom Ingenieur (M.S.) for Computational Visualistics
Laird of John O' Groats
Assistant Member, Director for Education & Outreach
Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Assistant Professor
Department of Oncologic Sciences
Morsani College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Postdoctoral Fellows
Rachel Walker, Ph.D.
Dr. Rachel Walker joined the lab in 2015 after her graduate studies in Engineering Science at the University of South Florida. She is working on gastric carcinogenesis, with focus on H-Pylori infections, to identify patient-specific optimal screening schedules. Additionally she is working on radiation and immunotherapy for brain cancer.
Daniel Santiago, Ph.D.
Dr. Daniel Santiago joined the lab in 2016 after his graduate studies in computational chemistry at Moffitt, and a postdoctoral stint at the Scripps Research Institute in California. His position is joined with Daniel Abate-Daga's lab in immunology. He is working on CAR T cell therapy and oncolytic viruses.
Students
Thomas Lewin
Tom joined the lab in October 2015 as D.Phil. candidate in the Oxford Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), specifically the Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science - IDC. He is jointly supervised by me and Helen Byrne (Oxford University, UK). Tom is working on mathematical models of radiation therapy and the proliferation saturation index, PSI.
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Enakshi Sunassee
Enakshi joined the lab as a student intern in January 2016. She is an international student in USF's Engineering department, and is working on different mathematical models of tumor growth and radiation response. Her work also has an experimental component joint with Dr. Robert Gatenby's group.
Alumni / Collaborators
Jan Poleszczuk, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Jan Poleszczuk was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab 2014-2016. He was working on evolutionary models of tumor progression with focus on high-performance computing. He was developing mathematical models of the abscopal effect to personalize radiation and immunotherapy.
We continue to collaborate on a variety of biological and clinical mathematical oncology projects.
Sotiris Prokopiou, Ph.D.
Dr. Sotiris Prokopiou was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab in 2013. He was working on personalized radiotherapy prediction models, using the proliferation saturation index, PSI. Sotiris followed the call from Industry and moved to CoSMo, a complex systems modeling company in Lyon, France.
Xuefeng Gao, Ph.D.
Dr. Xuefeng (Ryan) Gao was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab 2011-2013. He was working on agent based models of cancer stem cells, and the response and evolution of heterogeneous tumors to radiation therapy in particular.
Ryan moved to France and continued his career at INRIA and the Institute Pasteur.
Collaborators
Juan Carlos L. Alfonso, Ph.D.
Dr. Juan Carlos Alfonso is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Multiscale Modeling of Multicellular Systems (M3s) group in the Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. We are working on tumor-immune interaction and radiotherapy models.