A mathematical biologist against cancer

Patients have long received cancer treatments at the maximum tolerated dose on a regular schedule. Franziska Michor, a mathematical biologist from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA, has turned to math and evolutionary theory to determine whether clinicians can make existing therapies work better simply by altering the time course by which they are administered. Her models are now being put to the test in prospective human clinical trials. Read more here.