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Using Virtual Reality in
Cancer Research and Education
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via Columbia YouTube
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Why Virtual Reality is the Future for Columbia Cancer Research
Simon Tavaré, Director of the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and Professor of Statistics and Biological Sciences, is establishing a Virtual Reality lab to visualize tumors in 3D. Simon is a member of the IMAXT team, an initiative supported by Cancer Grand Challenges (funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute) that connects more than 90 investigators across 5 countries. One goal of the IMAXT VR project is "to allow multiple investigators to immerse themselves simultaneously in the same tumor, providing a novel way to identify molecular features of the tumor," Simon explains. This way, they can study where the cell types are in a tumor sample and develop a more detailed picture of how these cells interact at the molecular level.
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 Teaching with Virtual Reality
Through a collaboration with the Provost’s Science of Learning Research initiative, the School of Professional Studies, Columbia University Libraries, and CU Information Technology, Brent Stockwell, Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry and IICD Associate Member, discusses developing a biochemistry course in virtual reality to offer students with an immersive learning experience. Watch the video here (via Columbia YouTube). |
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Next Speaker in our Seminar Series
"Mechanistic Modeling
of Immune Cell Activation
in Cancer"
Hosted by Simon Tavaré, FRS
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM (EST)
Date: November 18, 2021
Click here to register
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Congratulations to Andrew J. Blumberg, Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Cancer Data Research and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science (left), and Ivan Corwin, Professor of Mathematics and IICD Associate Member (right), who were named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Fellows of the American Mathematical Society are recognized for "outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.”
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 Congratulations to Khanh N. Dinh, IICD postdoctoral fellow in the Tavaré lab, who was selected as an Emerging Leader in Computational Oncology Awardee. The symposium was initiated by the Computational Oncology Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to recognize postdoctoral fellows and senior trainees looking for independent faculty positions in the field of computational oncology.
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Recent Publications from IICD Researchers
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Harnessing Multimodal Data Integration to Advance Precision Oncology. Boehm, K. M.; Khosravi, P.; Vanguri, R.; Gao, J.; Shah, S. P. Nat. Rev. Cancer 2021, in press. From IICD Associate Member Sohrab P. Shah (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).
Prevalence of Extensive and Limited Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia and Progression to Dysplasia and Gastric Cancer. Laszkowska, M. et al., Dig. Dis. Sci. 2021, in press. With the participation of IICD Associate Member Chin Hur (Columbia University).
Risk of Corticosteroid Treatment and Hospitalization after Checkpoint Inhibitor and Radiation Therapy in Patients with Cancer. Lee, K. E. et al., Cancer 2021, in press. With the participation of IICD Associate Member Chin Hur (Columbia University).
Single-cell Profiling Reveals the Importance of CXCL13/CXCR5 Axis Biology in Lymphocyte-Rich Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma. Aoki, T. et al., PNAS 2021, 118(41), e2105822118. With the participation of IICD Affiliate Member Sohrab Shah (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).
Vitamin D Deficiency after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Promotes T-Cell Activation and is Inversely Associated with an EZH2-ID3 Signature. Macedo, R. et al., Cell Ther. Transplant 2021, in press. With the participation of IICD Associate Member Andrew J. Yates (Columbia University).
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