CCO News
July 21, 2020
On July 21st,2020 Ryan Woodall successfully defended his dissertation titled “Models of Fluid Dynamics in Biological Tissues for Medical Imaging and Drug Delivery.” His PhD research […]
July 10, 2020
Chengyue Wu successfully defended her dissertation, “Characterizing Patient-specific Tumor-associated Vasculature and Hemodynamics via Quantitative MRI” on July 10th. Check out her work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mMA7Ed8AAAAJ&hl=en
July 9, 2020
Hayden Lydick has recently graduated in the first class of the BSEBME/MSE program. He completed the degree program with a thesis titled, “Effects of biopsy clips […]
July 1, 2020
Manasa will be starting a new role as a cancer bioengineering scientist at SageMedic in Redwood City, CA. She will be working with a group of […]
February 3, 2020
Guillermo Lorenzo has received an award for this PhD thesis from the Universidade da Coruña in A Coruña, Spain. His thesis is titled “Tissue-scale, patient-specific modeling and simulation of […]
April 30, 2019
Mathematical Oncology Collection CCO members recently contributed a review on mechanism-based modeling of tumor growth and response constrained by imaging data to a mathematical oncology collection […]
April 8, 2019
CCO member Caleb Philips recently gave two guest lectures to undergraduate BME students in introduction to computing and numerical methods. Caleb focused on how the numerical […]
March 11, 2019
CCO members Caleb Philips, Ernesto Lima, and Angela Jarrett recently attended the 2019 Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group/Multi-scale Modeling Consortium Meeting at the NIH. Philips, Lima, […]
February 23, 2019
The “More Than Pink Podcast” is presented by Susan G. Komen Austin to provide listeners an insight in the field of breast cancer research, treatment, screening, and […]
December 10, 2018
CCO members Meghan Bloom, Angela Jarrett, and Anna Sorace presented posters at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Quantitative breast MRI to predict response […]
October 17, 2018
Our CCO team participated in the 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting held on October 17-20, 2018. This meeting celebrated the 50th anniversary of the society […]
September 10, 2018
CCO’s Ryan Woodall won UT’s Biomedical Engineering (BME) Graduate Student Poster Competition! The BME retreat took place on August 27, 2018. The title and abstract of […]
September 10, 2018
CCO graduate students, Ryan Woodall and Kaitlyn Johnson, participated in the North Carolina State University’s Parameter Estimation Workshop on July 25-28, 2018. This four-day workshop was hosted by […]
August 16, 2018
CCO’s Director, Tom Yankeelov, was a faculty member at the AACR/ASCO Methods in Clinical Cancer Workshop. The workshop took place from July 28-August 3, 2018, in […]
July 10, 2018
CCO’s own David Hormuth was awarded the 2018 American Association of Physicists in Medicine Research Seed Funding Grant. This prestigious grant is awarded to one recipient per […]
June 29, 2018
CCO’s Anna Sorace, Chengyue Wu, and David Hormuth participated in the 2018 ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting in Paris, France. Hormuth gave an oral presentation on “Predicting the spatio-temporal […]
April 23, 2018
Caleb’s project, “A Hybrid Model of Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis: Theory, Simulations, and a Proof-of-Principle Application,” earned him a semifinalist position in the 2018 University Co-Op/George […]
April 19, 2018
This year, the American Association for Cancer Research held its annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Angela Jarrett and Anna Sorace from CCO participated in the meeting. […]
April 18, 2018
Thomas Yankeelov was featured on The OncoZine Brief, an interview and discussion program that provides news updates on the oncology disciplines. On the program he discusses […]
April 4, 2018
Our very own, Kaitlyn Johnson, has been awarded a 2018 graduate research fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! The NSF fellowship promotes graduate studies in […]
March 27, 2018
A big CCO congratulations goes to Anna Sorace! Anna is the recipient of a four-year award from the American Cancer Society. This research scholar grant is in support […]
March 20, 2018
STEM is not just an acronym meaning science, technology, engineering, art and math. It’s an initiative to help motivate young girls to be more involved with […]
January 5, 2018
Interested to learn more of what we do here at CCO? Check out the article below featuring Dr. Thomas Yankeelov and Dr. J. Tinsley Oden where […]
December 13, 2017
CCO attended the Livestrong Cancer Institutes retreat on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, and took home 3 outstanding awards [as seen below]. These prestigious awards showcase the […]
September 21, 2017
Two UT biomedical engineering graduate students, Shane Allen & Ahmed Hassan, have put a new spin on the view of biomedical research with their podcast, The Lab […]
August 28, 2017
CCO congratulates Caleb Phillips on being selected to receive the 2017 Graham F. Carey Undergraduate Scholarship in Computational Science! This scholarship was created by the Institute […]
August 22, 2017
On August 21, 2017, the U.S. was treated to a total eclipse of the sun. Millions, including CCO, took to the outdoors to see this event, […]
August 3, 2017
This summer, CCO participated in the Moncrief Undergraduate Summer Internship Program. This program is organized to provide summer support for qualified undergraduate students of mathematics, science, […]
July 24, 2017
CCO members attended and presented talks at the 14th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics in Montréal, Canada, held on July 17-20, 2017. Find the titles […]
May 11, 2017
Posters and oral presentations were given by members of the CCO at the 25th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, […]
May 11, 2017
Members of the CCO attended the 25th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, held on April 22-27, 2017. Ryan Woodall […]
May 4, 2017
ICES Professor Thomas Yankeelov was featured on the local NBC affiliate KXAN’s news program where he explained his work to “forecast” cancer behavior. Using the analogy […]
April 10, 2017
Three posters were co-authored by members of the CCO at AACR Research Propelling Cancer Prevention and Cures Meeting in D.C. Listed below are the titles presented […]