Gordon Research Conference — Physical Science of Cancer

Cancer is a disease that affects individual molecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms in ways that promote disease. Ultimately, the dynamic interactions among these systems shape the forces that drive tumor initiation, progression, metastatic spread, and disease recurrence. The application of physics and mathematics foundations to the molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ level basis of cancer has revealed fundamental changes during disease that are reflected across cancer types and stages. In this conference we will hear from experts applying physical sciences to cancer to study disease phenomena across scales and systems.

Topics: Physical Oncology Across Biological Scales: Signals, Systems, Forces and Fluxes