Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Despite dramatic advances in decoding the genes, proteins, and pathways that drive cancer, the disease has evaded the reductionist approaches to defeat it. Recent work has highlighted cancer’s heterogeneity, complexity, and ability to develop resistance as major barriers to progress. To better understand and control the processes that govern the initiation, behavior, and progression of cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) created the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PS-OC) Network in 2009. As a hub for scientific innovation and as an example of the transdisciplinary research model, the twelve centers within the PS-OC strive for the systematic convergence of the physical sciences with cancer biology. Promoting collaboration between biologists, physicists, mathematicians, chemists, biomedical engineers, and oncologists, the program offers a compelling vision of how new frontiers in physical sciences and oncology will permit the emergence of new scientific principles and opportunities, and of how the benefits of the current convergence revolution would be enhanced by vigorous public/advocacy support.
Source: EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
DOI: 10.1186/epjnbp1
Authors: Susan Samson, Irene Acerbi, Carole Baas, Valerie Weaver, Hope Rugo
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funders: American College of Radiology Imaging Network, Susan G. Komen, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, National Institutes of Health, University of California, San Francisco, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
OpenAlex ID: W4233457611