I am currently working at the Department for Computational Oncology a the Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology in Warsaw. The aim of the group is to incorporate existing and develop new computational/mathematical tools at various levels of basic, translational and clinical cancer research. We envision that such a tools can augment our understanding of cancer and ultimately lead to increased patient survival.
I am also an Associate Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences (Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering). My main research focusin PAS is on mathematical modeling of pulse wave propagation in the arterial tree under different pathological conditions, i.e. in case of patient with end stage renal disease. The idea is that using mathematical modelling we can improve currently existing methods of cardiovascular system state assessment.
I am a former Postdoc Research fellow at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center (Enderling Lab) where I was trying to decipher and describe mathematically the amazing, but rarely observed and poorly understood phenomena called the radiation-induced abscopal effect. Abscopal effect is the fascinating observation that the stimulation of the immune system by localized radiotherapy may modulate systemic regression of metastatic nodules. I believe that by using mathematical models coupled with patient specific data would allow triggering abscopal purposefully, which could be a long sought “magic bullet” in cancer treatment.
In my free time I update the Compute Cancer blog.
Other research interests:
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Mathematical modeling of tumor angiogenesis and optimal therapy protocols
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Gene regulatory networks; influence of time delays on stochastic and deterministic systems
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Delayed differential equations and their applications in biomathematics
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Agent-based modeling of cancer development