Lab Research Interests:

 

 

Kayode Olumoyin Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2022-present); PhD: Computational Science Program at the Middle Tennessee State University

a leading scientist: "ML-PETIL protocol for predicting expansion of TILs in patients’ bladder tumors" project

a leading scientist: "PINN model for local lymphodepletion in bladder tumors" project

Hannah Anderson Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2024-present) PhD: Department of Mathematics, University of Florida

a leading scientist: "Optimization of TIL therapies in bladder tumors" project

Ana Milena Forero Pinto Graduate Student (09/2022-11/2022 and 06/2023-present) MSc: Physics, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

a leading scientist in Rotation 1 project: "tumor-ECM remodeling"

a leading scientist in PhD dissertation project: "Modeling cell-cell and cell-stroma interactions to investigate the cause of microinvasions in DCIS"

Tyler Gonzalez Undergraduate Student Intern (11/2024-present) studies: bioengineering major, Hillsborough Community College

a leading scientist: "Identification of tissue cavity areas in histology images of blader tumors"

Emilie Favier Graduate Student (09-10/2024 and 03/2025-present) MSc: Computational and Mathematical Biology, Aix-Marseille Universite, France

a leading scientist in Rotation 1 project: "adoptive T cell therapy modeling"

 

 

Former members

Alan Roberts Medical Student Intern (10/2017-01/2018) studies: major in medicine, University of South Florida Medical School, Tampa, FL

a leading scientist: "Cross-Disciplinary Assessment of Chlorotoxin Distribution in Gliomas in Mice", a joint project with M. Wiranowska lab (USF)

Aleksandra (Ola) Karolak, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow (06/2015-06/2018) PhD: University of South Florida, Department of Chemistry, Tampa, FL

a leading scientist: "Physical Dynamics of Cancer Response to Chemotherapy in 3D Microenvironments", a joint project with Lisa McCawley and Dmitry Markov labs (Vanderbilt)

a leading scientist: "Targeted Imaging Agents Modeling and Quantification", a joint project with Dave Morse lab (Moffitt)

Angela Hu Undergraduate Student Intern (11/2020-05/2024); studies: chemistry major, University of South Florida

		a leading scientist: "3D Cell Lineages" project
		a leading scientist: "Tumor-macrophages interactions under ER inhibitors--3D in vitro model" project

Ayah Tarabishy Undergraduate Student Intern (12/2022-01/2024); studies: pre-med & math major, University of South Florida

a leading scientist: "Mathematical Modeling of T-cell Immunotherapy with Rose Bengal Vaccination" project (honor thesis)

Banu Baydil, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2011-09/2012) PhD: Rensselear Polytechnic, Department of Mathematics, Troy, NY

a leading scientist: "Somatic Evolution within Breast Cancer Histology", a PSOC project~PI in collaboration with Mark Lloyd (Moffitt Microscopy Core)

a leading scientist: "Developent of DCIS microinvasions: cellular treats and phenotypes"

Bari Namgoong Undergraduate Student Intern (02/2023-08/2024); studies: College of Public Health, University of South Florida

a leading scientist: "Tumor-macrophages interactions under ER inhibitors--2D in vitro model" project

Branton Huffstutler Undergraduate Student Intern (07/2015-12/2016) studies: major in physics, Univeristy of South Florida, Tampa, FL

a leading scientist: "Virtual Cell Colony Model for Testing Optimal Dosing Schedules"

Catherine Berrouet Graduate Student Intern (12/2017-present); Undergraduate Student Intern (10/2017-12/2017) studies: math major, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

a leading scientist: "Modeling 3D Tumor Response to Drugs Based on IC50 Curves" project

Dandre Alison Summer Undergraduate Student Intern (06-08/2010) studies: major in computer sciences, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

REBMI (Research Experience at the Biology-Mathematics Interface), NSF-funded program at Claremont Colleges, CA a leading scientist joint with Sara Dawit: "Interactions between melanoma tumor cells and tumor-specific T cells: an integrative model", a joint project with Shari Pilon-Thomas lab (Moffitt)

Elliot Nelson Graduate Rotation Student Intern (04-07/2016) studies: major in physics, Oxford University, Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science (SABS), UK

Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science @Oxford, UK. a leading scientist: "Mechanobiology of Circulating Tumor Cells"

Eros Prieto HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06/2024-07/2024); High School: Hillsborough High School

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Comparison of CAR T cell properties against melanoma through hybrid agent-based model analysis" project

Haarika Makam HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06/2024-07/2024); High School: Tampa Preparatory School

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Machine learning techniques for handling missing data of bladder cancer patients" project under the mentorship of Dr. Kayode Olumoyin

Ibrahim Chamseddine, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow (01/2019-03/2020) PhD: McGill Univeristy, Montreal, Canada

a leading scientist: "Physical Dynamics of Cancer Response to Chemotherapy in 3D Microenvironments, a joint project with Lisa McCawley and Dmitry Markov labs (Vanderbilt)

a leading scientist: “Optimizing vaccine-induced immuno-therapy", a joint project with Shari Pilon-Thomas lab (Moffitt)

Jai Padhya HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06/2024-07/2024); High School: Tampa Preparatory School

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Optimized scheduling of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte adoptive cell therapy to treat urothelial carcinoma" project

Jake Nadulek Undergraduate Student Intern (10-12/2017) studies: Florida Atlantic Univeristy, Boca Raton, FL

a leading scientist: "Modeling 3D Tumor Response to Drugs based on IC50 Curves"

Jessica Kingsley Research Assistant (05/2019-07/2021); Undergraduate Student Intern (02/2018-05/2019) studies: math major, University of South Florida

a leading scientist: "Metabolic Fluctuations in Cancer" project

a leading scientist: "Mathematical Modeling of Microscale Pharmacology" project

Laura Depner Graduate Rotation Student Intern (04-07/2016) studies: major in biology, Oxford University, Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science (SABS), UK

Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science @Oxford, UK. a leading scientist: "Mechanobiology of Circulating Tumor Cells"

Lawrence Abu-Hammour Undergraduate Student Intern (01-03/2018) studies: Dartmouth College off-Campus Program @ Moffitt, Hanover, NH

Dartmouth Off-Campus Program @Moffitt a leading scientist: "Image-Based Modeling of Targeting Nanoparticle Delivery for High Uniform Receptor Saturation" under the guidance of Dr. Aleksandra Karolak

	Luis San Juan Undergraduate Student Intern (10/2019-07/2021) studies: chemnical engineering major, University of South Florida, Tampa,FL
	a leading scientist: "The Organoid Microenvironement and Branching" project

Manoj Kambara SPARK Undergraduate Intern (05-08/2021); HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06-08/2019) studies: Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville High School: Land O'Lake High School, Tampa FL

		SPARK ~~ Summer Program for the Advancement of Research Lnowledge a leading scientist: "Mathematical Modeling of Adoptive T cell Immunotherapy in Melanoma", a joint project with Dr. Shari Pilon-Thomas and Dr. Michael Poch labs (Moffitt).
		HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Modeling Vaccine-Induced Immunotherapy: Studying Treatment Robustness Using Virtual Populations" under the guidance of Dr. Ibrahim Chamseddine

Martin Busik Graduate Student Intern (05-08/2017) studies: major in mathematics, Univeristy of Zilina, Slovakia

a leading scientist: "Circulating Tumor Cells in Blood Flow and Microfluidic Devices"

Maureiq Ojwang' Postdoctoral Fellow (08/2021-08/2024); PhD: Biomathematics Program at the North Carolina State University, Department of Mathematics

a leading scientist: "Reconstruction of tumor tissue oxygenation in bladder cancers and its role in immunotherapy" project

McKenzie Williams HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06-07/2022); High School: Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt

a leading scientist: "Oxygenation landscape in bladder tumor histology" project

Mia Yan Miao Undergraduate Student Intern (01-03/2020) studies: Dartmouth College off-Campus Program @ Moffitt, Hanover, NH

Dartmouth Off-Campus Program @Moffitt a leading scientist: "Optimizing Adoptive T Cell Therapy by Exploring the Tumor Microenvironment Complexity"

Moslem Uddin Graduate school summer project programmer (06-08/2023); studies: applied mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

a leading scientist: " Building a modular app for the microscale pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (microPKPD) model" together with Rubaiyat Bin Islam

Mun Ju Kim, PhD Research Scientist (08/2011-07/2014) Brown University, Department of Engineering, Providence, Rhode Island

a leading scientist on the Miles for Moffitt Milestones Award "Optimising cell-cycle inhibitors in sarcomas: an integrative model", a joint project with Moffitt Sarcoma Program

a leading scientist on the PSOC-TransNetwork grant "Heterogeneity of Cytoskeletal Architecture as an Indicator of Treatment Response", a joint project between four PSOCs: Moffitt, Scripps, Cornell and University of Southern California

Naika Dorilas Undergraduate Student Intern (09/2018-08/2019) studies: Florida Atlantic Univeristy, Boca Raton, FL

a leading scientist: "Modeling "3D Tumor Response to Drugs Based on IC50 Curves"

Noemi Vitos Visiting Scholar Intern (09-12/2018) studies: medical program, Sahlgrenska Academy, Univeristy of Gothenburg,Sweden

a leading scientist: "Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment to Improve Immunotherapy in Melanoma", a joint project with Shari Pilon-Thomas lab (Moffitt)

Phebe Havor Graduate Student Rotation 2 (11/2022-02/2023); MSc: Mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

a leading scientist in Rotation 2 project: "Glucose-regulated tumor growth" project

Priya Bhatt HIP-IMO High-School Student Intern (06-08/2019) High School: Ottawa Hills High School, Toledo, OH

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Modeling Vaccine-Induced Immunotherapy: Optimizing Treatment Dosage and Timing" under the guidance of Dr.Ibrahim Chamseddine

Risheet Jojoo HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06-07/2023); High School: Middleton High School

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: " A Genetic Algorithm based Manifold Learning Feature Selection Approach Using Bladder Cancer Patient Data" under the guidance of Dr. Kayode Olumoyin

Rubaiyat Bin Islam Graduate school summer project programmer (06-08/2023); studies: applied mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

a leading scientist: " Building a modular app for the microscale pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (microPKPD) model" together with Moslem Uddin

Rudra Patel HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06-07/2023); High School: Middleton High School

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: " An Advanced Spatial Analysis of CD8+ T Cell Distribution Patterns in Orthotopic Mice Bladder Tumors and the Impact of Hypoxia on Immune Cell Infiltration" under the guidance of Dr. Maureiq Ojwang'

Rupin Singh Medical Student Intern (05/2016-07/2017) studies: major in medicine, Univeristy of South Florida Medical School, Tampa, FL\

a leading scientist: "Cross-disciplinary Optimization of Nano-Drug Delivery to Glioma Cells", a joint project with M. Wiranowska (USF) and N. Alcantar (USF) labs; funded by the USF 2016 Summer Scholarly Award Program.

Saharsh Agrawal HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (07-08/2016) High School: C. Leon King High School, Tampa, FL

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Hide & Seek: Cell Strategies to Survive in Chemotherapy"

Samantha Lee HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (07-08/2016) High School: Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, FL

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Optimizing the Efficacy of Cytotoxic T Cells" project

Sara Dawit Summer Undergraduate Student Intern (06-08/2010) studies: major in biology, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

REBMI (Research Experience at the Biology-Mathematics Interface), NSF-funded program at Claremont Colleges, CA a leading scientist joint with Dandre Allison: "Interactions between melanoma tumor cells and tumor-specific T cells: an integrative model", a joint project with Shari Pilon-Thomas lab (Moffitt)

Shannon Chen HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06-07/2018) High School: C. Land O'Lakes High School, Tampa

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Hypoxia-Activated Pro-Drugs by Using Sensitizers"

Sharan Poonja Undergraduate Student Intern (01/2018-09/2019); Summer Student Intern (06-08/2017) studies: pre-med program, Univeristy of South Florida, Tampa, FL

	a leading scientist: "Histology-Based Analysis and Modeling of Ductal Microinvasions"
	a leading scientist: "Defining a digital signature of a tumor cell based on multicellular spheroid cultures"

Shreya Mathur Research Assistant (06/2020-08/2021); High School Student Intern (06/2019-05/2020); HIP-IMO High School Student Intern (06/2018-07/2018) studies: pre-med major, University of Florida, Gainesville;high school: Brooks DeBartolo Collegiate High School, Tampa

a leading scientist: "Macrophages in the 3D Breast Tumor Microenvironments", a joint project with Dr. Brian Ruffell lab (Moffitt).

a leading scientist: "Mathematical Modeling of Acidic Landscape in DCIS" project

HIP-IMO ~~ High School Internship Program @ Moffitt a leading scientist: "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Hypoxia-Activated Pro-Drugs with Vasodilators" project

Tamas Kis SPARK Summer Research Intern (05-08/2019) studies: major in mechanical engineering, Vanderbilt Univeristy, Nasville, TN

a leading scientist: "Metabolic Reprogramming to Improve Immunotherapy in Melanoma"

Tedman A. Torres, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow (10/2009-01/2011) PhD: Arizona State Univeristy, Departmen of Physics, Tempe, AZ

"leading scientist: Drug Transport Through the Tumor Tissue"

Zain Khan Medical Student Intern (08/2015-07/2017) studies: major in medicine, Ross Univeristy Medical School, Miami, FL

a leading scientist: "Virtual Clinical Trial Model: Enhansing Clinical Accuracy and Applicability"