Multiscale agent-based and hybrid modeling of the tumor immune microenvironment

KA Norton, C Gong, S Jamalian, AS Popel - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Multiscale systems biology and systems pharmacology are powerful methodologies that are
playing increasingly important roles in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of …

Addressing current challenges in cancer immunotherapy with mathematical and computational modelling

A Konstorum, AT Vella, AJ Adler… - Journal of The …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to boost a patient's immune response to a tumour. Yet,
the design of an effective immunotherapy is complicated by various factors, including a …

Multi-scale modeling of macrophage—T cell interactions within the tumor microenvironment

CG Cess, SD Finley - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Within the tumor microenvironment, macrophages exist in an immunosuppressive state,
preventing T cells from eliminating the tumor. Due to this, research is focusing on …

Digital pathology analysis quantifies spatial heterogeneity of CD3, CD4, CD8, CD20, and FoxP3 immune markers in triple-negative breast cancer

H Mi, C Gong, J Sulam, EJ Fertig, AS Szalay… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Overwhelming evidence has shown the significant role of the tumor microenvironment (TME)
in governing the triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) progression. Digital pathology can …

Biologically relevant heterogeneity: metrics and practical insights

A Gough, AM Stern, J Maier, T Lezon… - … Life Sciences R&D, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Heterogeneity is a fundamental property of biological systems at all scales that must be
addressed in a wide range of biomedical applications, including basic biomedical research …

Agent-based computational modeling of glioblastoma predicts that stromal density is central to oncolytic virus efficacy

AL Jenner, M Smalley, D Goldman, WF Goins… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging cancer immunotherapy. Despite notable successes in
the treatment of some tumors, OV therapy for central nervous system cancers has failed to …

Modeling triple-negative breast cancer heterogeneity: Effects of stromal macrophages, fibroblasts and tumor vasculature

KA Norton, K **, AS Popel - Journal of theoretical biology, 2018 - Elsevier
A hallmark of breast tumors is its spatial heterogeneity that includes its distribution of cancer
stem cells and progenitor cells, but also heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment. In this …

A mathematical model for the quantification of a patient's sensitivity to checkpoint inhibitors and long-term tumour burden

JD Butner, Z Wang, D Elganainy… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
A large proportion of patients with cancer are unresponsive to treatment with immune
checkpoint blockade and other immunotherapies. Here, we report a mathematical model of …

[HTML][HTML] Computational pathology: Exploring the spatial dimension of tumor ecology

S Nawaz, Y Yuan - Cancer letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Tumors are evolving ecosystems where cancer subclones and the microenvironment
interact. This is analogous to interaction dynamics between species in their natural habitats …

The role of tumor heterogeneity in immune-tumor interactions

SM Knoche, AC Larson, BH Sliker, BJ Poelaert… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2021 - Springer
The development of cancer stems from genetic instability and changes in genomic
sequences, and hence, the heterogeneity exhibited by tumors is integral to the nature of …