Curing Cancer With Mathematics

According to Lisette de Pillis, the secret to more effective therapies to fight cancer can be found in mathematics. A cancer researcher and mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, de Pillis is leading a team that is developing and testing new mathematically optimal approaches to controlling multiple simultaneous cancer treatment strategies, which include chemotherapy, immunotherapy and vaccine therapy.Professor de Pillis and her team will present their National Science Foundation-sponsored research project "Curing Cancer with Mathematics" at the 13th annual meeting of the Coalition for National Science Funding on Tuesday in Washington D.C.The project and team were selected to represent the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) at the CNSF exhibition in Washington, D.C., where they will showcase the kind of active research that takes place with undergraduates at HMC. Harvey Mudd College was named by the MAA to receive its first Exemplary Program in Mathematics award in 2006.