Dr. Daniele Gilkes is assistant professor of oncology, as well as an assistant professor in chemical and molecular engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
This is her first year as a BCRF grantee. Dr. Paul Macklin is an associate professor of intelligent systems engineering, and a member of the Melvin & Bren Simon Cancer Center at Indiana University.
He’s a BCRF grantee since 2014. Together, Drs. Gilkes and Macklin are part of a collaboration between the BCRF and JKTG Foundation that links computational scientists with biologists.
They recently talked to BCRF about their efforts to gain new insights into tumor growth, metastasis, and the mechanics of drug resistance.
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Ted’s Take: Bureaucracy and the Supertanker
Bureaucracies are very large and complex organizations, with governments the highest forms of bureaucracy. These entities have their own “biological”, characteristics formed over decades and decades of evolution.
Ted’s Take: Approaching Research Differently (and why you should do the same)
Much of our research in breast cancer involves data and analytics; data are collected and analysis drives our work. Increasingly, we deploy mathematical models for data analysis
and work to publish the results, along with conclusions, to help others learn from our research and apply relevant pieces to their work.
Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis
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