2021 QSP Virtual Symposium

Stacey D. Finley is the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Finley’s lab uses mathematical modeling to predict how reactions inside of cells and interactions between cells drive tumor growth.

Dr. Lauffenburger is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer in computational approaches at the interface of biochemistry, quantitative cell biology and engineering.

Aaron Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He combines mathematical/statistical models with quantitative cell biology to study drug response.

Oleg Milberg is a Senior Scientist in the Translational Modeling group within the department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. His work focuses on the design, development and application of a range of models, including QSP and systems biology, PBPK and PK/PD to help with clinical study design and dosing strategy recommendations.

Kathryn is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale. Before joining the faculty, she was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in the Schaffer laboratory. Kathryn worked previously at the National Academies, Merck Pharmaceuticals, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Monitor Group. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering at MIT with Doug Lauffenburger. and her BE and BA degrees at Dartmouth College.

Ed Stites is an Assistant Professor directing the Integrated Biology lab that uses mathematical and computational models to study the behaviors of genetic signaling networks implicated in cancer.

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo. She leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory, which develops multiscale mathematical and computational models to enhance understanding of the mechanisms governing tissue remodeling and damage as a result of diseases and infections and to simulate the treatment of those conditions.

Kevin Wood is an Assistant Professor interested in quantitative biology and the dynamics of complex systems with particular emphasis on systems dominated by heterogeneity, stochasticity, strong coupling and rare events.

Thomas Yankeelov is the W.A. "Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computational Oncology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Diagnostic Medicine, and Oncology at The University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Yankeelov is the founding Director of the Center for Computational Oncology at UT Austin.  The overall goal of Dr. Yankeelov's research is to develop tumor forecasting methods by integrating advanced imaging technologies with predictive, multi-scale models of tumor growth to optimize therapy.