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Latest news and features relating to the Computational Cancer Biology Lab, led by Professor Jasmin Fisher.
Computer model reveals how early-stage skin cancer can stay ‘invisible’ to immune cells
Research led by Jasmin Fisher and Clare Bennett shows how melanomas can grow undetected by the body's immune system. Findings offer a way to identify novel drug combinations to treat the disease.
UCL Fisher Lab partners with Promatix to accelerate hunt for oncology therapeutics
The Jasmin Fisher Lab has announced a collaboration with the London-based oncology drug discovery company, Promatix, to develop new computational executable cancer models to discover new drug targets.
Cancer computer models identify new drug combinations to treat Covid-19
UCL scientists have identified new drug combinations with the potential to treat severe cases of Covid-19 infection at different stages of the disease.
Cancer vs the machine: how to personalise treatment using computing power
Jasmin Fisher is reverse engineering cancer, in order to fight it. [Wired, March 2017]
How Microsoft wants to 'solve cancer' using computer science
Jasmin Fisher and colleagues are trying to think about cancer in the same way computer scientists think about computer programmes.
[CNN Tech, September 2016]
Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukemia drugs
Computer models help gain a better understanding of the control mechanisms that keep blood production normal. [Microsoft, Feb 2015]
Cambridge Team Builds Transcription Regulatory Network Model from Single-cell Expression Data
Researchers have combined gene expression profiles from single cells with computational approaches to build a model of transcription factor networks in early blood cell development. [GenomeWeb, 2015]
Making Sense of a Complex Situation
Fisher is considered a world leader in a rapidly growing field of biological research in which computational models are the impetus for new discoveries. [Weizmann Institute Magazine, February 2013]
