Saskia Haupt

Our collaborative initiative in Heidelberg which started with my PhD in 2017 now became an official 3-year research project funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The aim of the collaborative project <a class="link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://emcl.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/research/projects/mathematical-oncology">Mathematics in Oncology</a> is to understand tumor initiation, evolution, and immunology by means of mathematical modeling and thereby find approaches to potentially prevent hereditary cancer in the future.

New 3-year research project Mathematics in Oncology in Heidelberg

The wonderful Isabel Lacurie from the HITS Communication team has written a blog post  in <a class="link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://scilogs.spektrum.de/via-data/i-like-interdisciplinary-research-or-how-to-combine-mathematics-and-medicine/">SciLogs Via Data Spektrum.de</a> about my interdisciplinary work in MathOnco. To inform others how interdisciplinarity can work and that communication is really essential is a message that is to the bottom of my heart. Thank you Isabel for this amazing collaboration. Please read and share. You can really make a difference for any interdisciplinary work.

I like Interdisciplinary research – or how to combine mathematics and medicine

My <a class="link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://doi.org/10.1002/cso2.1020">second first-author paper</a> is out in Computational and Systems Oncology. In addition to the Kronecker model, we, researchers from Heidelberg and Leipzig, have developed a computational model  for the biological processes occurring within single crypts, small entities of the colon, during early cancer development in Lynch syndrome. The computer simulations allow to unravel the otherwise invisible cancer formation process.