U01 : Chaos in Cancer: Analyzing Network Morphology to Predict Tumor Angiogenesis using Chaos Theory


Students Caroline Huang
School HDSB - Abbey Park High School - Oakville
Level Senior 11/12 - Grade 11
Group Group 9 - Health Sciences II
Abstract Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is hijacked by cancer to cause tumor malignancy and metastasis. However, current angiogenesis models fail to address the heterogeneity of cancerous vasculature and the chemical biology of the tumor microenvironment, bottlenecking drug discovery efforts. A novel computational approach to analyzing the morphology of angiogenesis through mathematical chaos theory was investigated to objectively explain biological networks for therapeutic development.
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