June 22, 2010
Can Calculus Cure Cancer.Public Evening Lecture
Prof. Mark A.J. Chaplain, FRSE

April 22, 2010
CCSB sponsors Radiation Systems Biology workshop.
As part of the ICBP Outreach and Education program, the CCSB sponsors the forthcoming 4th International Systems Radiation Biology Workshop, which will be held at New York University, Langone Medical Center, May 20-22, 2010. Lynn Hlatkywill also deliver an invited lecture.

April 9, 2010
Systems Biology and Bioinformatics: Something for Everyone
Lynn Hlatky's advice on careers in Systems Biology.

February 26, 2010
CCSB becomes part of NCI's Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP)
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center received funding from the National Cancer Institute ( NCI) to become a Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB). These centers are part of NCI's Integrative Cancer Biology Program ( ICBP), which is the NCI's primary effort in cancer systems biology, a field that is rapidly seen as an essential component in the future of cancer research.

"These centers represent a unique multidisciplinary union of outstanding scientists and clinicians who will work to unravel the complexities of cancer through the novel application of technology and mathematical modeling. Their discoveries and models will be critical to our continued success in understanding and treating this disease," said Dan Gallahan, program director for the Integrative Cancer Biology Program.

In addition to the funding received by St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 10 other outstanding centers nationwide will share NCI's commitment to this area of research. Selection of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center as part of NCI's Integrative Cancer Biology Program underscores and reflects St. Elizabeth's leadership within the community. These new centers and the research that evolves from them should enable scientists to gain a better understanding, and therefore better treatment and prevention, for the disease.

"This program is part of the next generation of cancer research, in that it will approach the disease from a holistic or comprehensive viewpoint in order to understand how all of the components of the disease fit together," said John E. Niederhuber, M.D., NCI Director.

This approach to cancer research is made possible by advances in technology and computational modeling. These centers will not only explore new insights in the areas of cancer systems biology, but will generate computational and mathematical models for application in the lab and the clinic. The centers, such as the one at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, will work closely with all aspects of the research community and rely heavily on data and insight from other prominent NCI efforts.

August 11, 2009
$8.6 million received to study cancer risk and exposure to low-dose radiation
Lynn Hlatky, director of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology at Tufts University School of Medicine, has won $7.5 million to investigate the risk of cancer from radon in people's basements, getting a CT scan, or living near a site with high background radiation. These are considered low-dose radiation exposures, as opposed to high doses from radiation therapy for cancer or from a nuclear accident, Hlatky said in an e-mail interview.

Philip Hahnfeldt, a senior investigator in the cancer center, has won a $1.05 million grant to formulate mathematical models of low-dose radiation and cancer.

Both grants were awarded by the US Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.

August 11, 2009
Looking at Cancer Through an Evolutionary Lens
Heiko Enderling's work on self-metastatic tumors is featured in a JNCI editorial on Cancer and Evolution