Tom Yankeelov Is Reshaping the Fight Against Cancer
BME professor Tom Yankeelov is leading research on the prediction science for how tumors and the patients fighting them will respond to treatment.
The biomedical engineering professor, who also has a joint appointment at the Dell Medical School and serves as director of the Center for Computational Oncology, recently received the President’s Research Impact Award for this work in April.
“I feel totally undeserving to have received the award given all the incredible work that is done at UT. But, of course, I am extremely grateful to UT for providing our team with the best place in the world to pursue the goal of building a mathematical theory to personalize the treatment of cancer,” said Yankeelov in response to receiving the honor.
More recently, Yankeelov led a study that is working to tailor predictions of tumor growth and response to breast cancer treatment to the individual patient. This statistical model would assist oncologists as a decision-making tool as they work with patients and doctors to understand individual cases.
