2026 July 12-17th, Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), Graz, Austria

Ana will present a contributed talk "A computational study of physicochemical interactions in DCIS microinvasions" Emilie will present a contributed talk "Optimization of melanoma treatment with cocktails of CAR-T cells of different affinities" Hannah will present a contributed talk "Robust regimens predicted using the virtual murine cohort of bladder cancer with experimental validation"

 

2026 July 9th, our manuscript "MoCaPS: A Machine Learning Model for Stratification of Cancer-Associated Cachexia Based on Blood Biomarkers" by Kayode Olumoyin and in collaboration with Jenny Permuth lab has been accepted for publication in npj Systems Biology and Applications

 

2026 July 9th, our review paper "Symbiotic cancer cell-stroma crosstalk in the acidic tumor microenvironment" by Mehdi Damaghi lab with Ana Forero Pinto as first co-author has been accepted for publication in Journal of Evolutionary Biology

 

2026 July 9th, HIP-IMO midterm presentations

Uliana discussed her project"Mathematical modeling of probiotic in bladder cancer" Arman discussed his project "Use of computer simulations to model T cell performance in tumor tissue" Nitya discussed her project "TBA"

 

2026 July 5-9th, Biannual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics-Life Sciences group (SIAM-LS), Cleveland, OH

Kayode presented a contributed talk "Optimizing Adoptive Cell Therapy Injection Schedules for Melanoma usign a Reinforcement Learning Approach" Kasia presented a talk "Mathematical models for guiding adoptive cell immunotherapies in bladder cancer" in the minisymposium "Novel Mathematical Models for Novel Cancer Immunotherapies"

"Novel Mathematical Models for Novel Cancer Immunotherapies" speakers: Ami, Stacey, Helen, and Kasia

 

2026 June 8th, Ms. Nitya Srikant, Ms. Uliana Loganova, and Mr. Arman Ahluwalia have joined our lab as HIP-IMO program participants

 

2026 June 3rd, 16th Annual Moffitt Scientific Symposium, Moffitt--second part.

Hannah presented a featured poster talk "Optimal regimens of adoptive cell therapy in a virtual murine cohort of bladder cancer."

 

2026 June 1st, Ms. Neha Kunka, a USF undergraduate student has joined our lab to work on the adoptive cell therapy project.

 

2026 June 1st, Ms. Lamees El Naqa, a high-school student has joined our lab as a MARCH (Moffitt Accelerating Research Careers in High School Program) student to work on modeling the pre-clinical adoptive cell therapy.

 

2026 May 11th, 16th Annual Moffitt Scientific Symposium, Moffitt.

~Hannah presented a poster and a featured poster talk "Optimal regimens of adoptive cell therapy in a virtual murine cohort of bladder cancer." ~Kayode presented a poster "Optimizing schedules for combination of adoptive T cells, dendritic cell vaccines, and anti-PD-L1 treatments for melanoma using a reinforcement learning approach."

~Emilie presented a poster: "Optimization of melanoma treatments in the hypoxic tumor microenvironment with CAR-T cells of different affinities." ~Ana presented a poster: "From the inside or the outside? A computational study of the mechanical interactions involved in DCIS microinvasions." ~Our clinical collaborator David Nusbaum will also present a talk "Feasibility and safety of intravesical therapy with autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in BCG-exposed non-muscle invasive bladder cancer."

 

2026 May 5th, IMO Research-in-Progress seminar

Ana presented her thesis work "Investigating tumor-stroma physicochemical interactions in DCIS microinvasions"

 

2026 May 4th, an updated preprint from our lab: "MoCaPS: A Machine Learning Model for Stratification of Cancer-Associated Cachexia Based on Blood Biomarkers" by Kayode Olumoyin in collaboration with Jenny Permuth lab and Kasia Rejniak, has been published in MedRxiv, link to the article

 

2026 April 21st, IMO Research-in-Progress seminar

Kayode presented his work "Optimizing Schedules for Combination of Adoptive T Cells, Dendritic Cell Vaccines, and Anti-PD-L1 Treatments for Melanoma using a Reinforcement Learning Approach"

 

2026 March 13th, an updated preprint from our lab: "PETIL: Predicting Expansion of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes for the Adoptive Cell Immunotherapy in Bladder Cancers" by Kayode Olumoyin in collaboration with Shari Pilon-Thomas and Mike Poch labs and Kasia Rejniak, has been published in BioRxiv, link to the article

 

2026 March 13th, a new paper from our collaboration with Shari Pilon-Thomas lab: "Transdermal bicarbonate buffer therapy increases intratumoral pH and elicits antitumor responses in bladder cancer" has been published in Frontiers in Immunology, link to the article

 

2026 March 10th, a new preprint from our lab: "A virtual cohort framework with applications to adoptive cell therapy in bladder cancer" by Hannah Anderson in collaboration with Shari Pilon-Thomas and Mike Poch labs and Kasia Rejniak, has been published in BioRxiv, link to the article

 

2026 March 6th, Ms. Emilie Favier, a graduate student in our lab, has passed her qualifier exam today and become a PhD candidate. Congratulations, Emilie!!!