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- Provides a unified framework for various currently available mathematical models that are being used to analyze progression and regression in cancer development
- Bridges the gap between biologists and engineers, as it brings together cancer dynamics, the main steps involved in mathematical modeling, and control strategies developed for cancer management
- Allows the readers in both medicine and engineering areas to compare and contrast all the therapy-based models developed to date using a single source, and to identify unexplored research directions
Part of the book series: Series in BioEngineering (SERBIOENG)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
In order to remedy this discrepancy, more interdisciplinary research works and course curricula need to be introduced in academic, industrial, and clinical organizations alike. To that end, this book reformulates most of the existing mathematical models as special cases of a general model, allowing readers to easily get an overall idea of cancer dynamics and its modeling. Moreover, the book will help bridge the gap between biologists and engineers, as it brings together cancer dynamics, the main steps involved in mathematical modeling, and control strategies developed for cancer management. This also allows readers in both medical and engineering fields to compare and contrast all the therapy-based models developed to date using a single source, and to identify unexplored research directions.
Authors and Affiliations
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Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Regina Padmanabhan, Nader Meskin
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Medical Basic Science Department, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa
About the authors
Dr. Nader Meskin received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, his M.Sc. from the University of Tehran in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and ComputerEngineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2008. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas A&M University at Qatar from January 2010 to December 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at Qatar University, Doha, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Concordia University. He has published more than 210 refereed journal and conference papers. His research interests include fault detection and isolation, mathematical modeling of cancer dynamics, active control for clinical pharmacology, and multiagent systems.
Dr. Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa is a Professor at the College of Medicine, Qatar University (QU), and an associate member of QU’s Biomedical Research Center. In addition, he is still affiliated with his previous institution, the Oncology Department/Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, Canada, as an Adjunct Professor. Dr. Al Moustafa has been a Cancer Scientist since completing his Master's and Ph.D. at the University of Paris XIII, France in1992. He completed his training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Montreal, Canada. Afterward, Dr. Al Moustafa held a position as a PI and an Assistant Professor at the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) for Medical Research of JGH and the Oncology Department of McGill University, respectively. In addition, he was the Founder and Scientific Director of the first Cancer Research Centre in Aleppo, Syria. Dr. Al Moustafa has published more than one hundred papers, books, and book chapters on diverse aspects of human cancer including oncogene cooperation, cDNA and tissue microarray, HPVs, and EBV. In the course of his career, Dr. Al Moustafa has obtained several grants from highly respected organizations in France, Canada, and Qatar, such as the French Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Cancer Research Society, the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada and Qatar National Research Fund. Moreover, he founded the Middle Eastern Association of Cancer Research (MEACR) and its official scientific peer-reviewed journal, the Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal (CCIJ).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematical Models of Cancer and Different Therapies
Book Subtitle: Unified Framework
Authors: Regina Padmanabhan, Nader Meskin, Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa
Series Title: Series in BioEngineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8640-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8639-2Published: 01 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8642-2Published: 02 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8640-8Published: 31 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-8861
Series E-ISSN: 2196-887X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 256
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Cancer Research