I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed by Pauline Davies at the 2013 Physical Sciences-Oncology Annual Meeting. (I gave one of the addresses–"Exploring Possibilities for Next-Generation Computational Cancer Models that Work Together"–at the meeting; agenda available here.) The interview (largely in layman's terms) discusses mathematical and computational modeling of cancer, the potential role for computational modeling in understanding cancer and making predictions that could help patients and their doctors make treatment choices, and the need for model and data standardizations to enable better predictions in the future. The interview draws parallels to hurricane predictions, where multiple models can read/write standardized data and be combined to improve their accuracy.
My interview can be found here, as can the entire set of selected 2013 interviews. You can find more information on my lab and work at MathCancer.org.
I really want to thank Pauline Davies, Jonathan Franca-Koh and the NCI Office of Physical Sciences in Oncology for the opportunity for this discussion!
