Network: POEMS - Predictive mOdelling for hEalthcare technologies through MathS
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
The delivery of healthcare is an increasingly important policy question, given an ageing population, and the need to decrease operating costs. The mathematics, engineering, and physical sciences (EPS) communities have a potentially important role to play in developing new technologies that will enable healthcare to be delivered in a more effective and personalised way. The key to maximising the translation of tools and ideas from the academic research community to clinical practice is engagement and interaction amongst a diverse and multidisciplinary community. This network has arisen from an EPSRC sandpit on Predictive Modelling for Healthcare Technologies Through Maths, and the initial membership of the network will be the sandpit participants. However, a key aim of the network is to grow, connect, and co-ordinate the UK research community working predictive models, well beyond the pool of participants who attended the sandpit, and especially focusing on areas that were under-represented amongst the sandpit attendees. In particular, we will target new members from the clinical, healthcare, mathematics, experimental biology, and industrial communities, with research interests aligned with the network objectives. The proposed size of the network is 200 members.
The overall aim of the network is to be an accelerating mechanism for collaborations and research activity on predictive modelling for healthcare. These in turn will form the building blocks of a wider vision and research agenda on a national scale beyond the lifetime of the network. These goals will be achieved through four main types of activity: network assemblies, themed events, travel grants, and continuous communication within the network using social media.
Network assemblies bracket the overall activity, occuring in the first and last years of the network period. The first network assembly will have the specific the aim of identifying research challenges and initial collaborative groupings. The final network assembly will allow a review of progress made in our overarching research agenda, and be an opportunity to create a road map for the next 10 years of research in predictive modelling for healthcare technologies.
Throughout the period, the network will provide the infrastructure and resources to enable this feltwork of collaborations to be extended to new partners, developed and nurtured to the level where they can deliver publications and funding proposals. Themed events will be proposed by subgroups of the membership, and will focus on particular topics within the research agenda. This allows for an organic bottom-up mechanism by which promising lines of future research will be identified by members of the community. This approach will ensure that all expertise and creativity contained in the UK research base is exploited to the full when shaping the national research agenda in modelling healthcare for the years 2013-2016 and beyond. Travel grants will allow members to invite prestigious visitors to the UK to explore new collaborations. Communication between the network membership will be continuous: we aim to have an active online community, as well as facilitating face-to-face events.
Communication of the value and potential of predictive models in healthcare to academia, end-users and the general public through outreach activities is one of the network objectives. This will be achieved by bidding to organise sessions at national conferences, by outreach to the general public through events such as the British Science Festival, and through engagement with patient groups.
The overall aim of the network is to be an accelerating mechanism for collaborations and research activity on predictive modelling for healthcare. These in turn will form the building blocks of a wider vision and research agenda on a national scale beyond the lifetime of the network. These goals will be achieved through four main types of activity: network assemblies, themed events, travel grants, and continuous communication within the network using social media.
Network assemblies bracket the overall activity, occuring in the first and last years of the network period. The first network assembly will have the specific the aim of identifying research challenges and initial collaborative groupings. The final network assembly will allow a review of progress made in our overarching research agenda, and be an opportunity to create a road map for the next 10 years of research in predictive modelling for healthcare technologies.
Throughout the period, the network will provide the infrastructure and resources to enable this feltwork of collaborations to be extended to new partners, developed and nurtured to the level where they can deliver publications and funding proposals. Themed events will be proposed by subgroups of the membership, and will focus on particular topics within the research agenda. This allows for an organic bottom-up mechanism by which promising lines of future research will be identified by members of the community. This approach will ensure that all expertise and creativity contained in the UK research base is exploited to the full when shaping the national research agenda in modelling healthcare for the years 2013-2016 and beyond. Travel grants will allow members to invite prestigious visitors to the UK to explore new collaborations. Communication between the network membership will be continuous: we aim to have an active online community, as well as facilitating face-to-face events.
Communication of the value and potential of predictive models in healthcare to academia, end-users and the general public through outreach activities is one of the network objectives. This will be achieved by bidding to organise sessions at national conferences, by outreach to the general public through events such as the British Science Festival, and through engagement with patient groups.
Planned Impact
Over the next decade, this network will contribute to a national research agenda in the field of predictive modelling for healthcare technology. This will not only impact on the scientific community, but also enable the UK as a whole to retain a competitive edge in the field, exploiting potential of UK science to the full in order to deliver the best possible healthcare to the general population. This ambitious long-term goal is hard to achieve by top-down approaches or managed calls alone. We propose a route towards a long-lasting impact where ideas emerge, grow and interact organically, in the spirit of an EPSRC Sandpit or Ideas Factory. The network we are proposing can deliver these objectives, and without a network of the type we are proposing it is likely that the potential and abilities available in the UK research community will not be exploited to the full.
In the short term (4 years) the network primarily benefits UK-based academics working in modelling for healthcare technologies. The immediate objective is to build up a networked community and to strengthen links where they already exist. A second important group of beneficiaries are end-users: clinicians, and healthcare professionals. Network activities will be developed to specifically include members of this group (e.g. at assemblies, and themed events). A crucial aspect of the network is that the advances in mathematical and computational modelling techniques are informed by the needs of healthcare professionals. Contact with the clinical domain will be made through existing links of the investigators (see pathways to impact document), and more importantly the network will exploit other existing contacts of its membership. There can be no doubt that many of the 200 members we anticipate to include will have such contacts in place, and it is an explicit goal of the project to make the most of these in order to deliver a maximal impact.
In the medium to long-term (5-10 years), technical advances arising from collaborations instigated by the network will benefit healthcare industries (for example, in the development of novel treatments, or drug development). The network will kick start collaborations and result in joint grant proposals. These follow-on grants will ultimately lead to the advances just described. On a similar timescale, this research will be useful to policy makers in setting healthcare agendas and priorities. Within twenty years we anticipate that the use of modelling in healthcare will become more widespread, making treatments more targeted, and therefore more beneficial and cost-effective.
The network will help to focus and to channel research efforts in this field, it will make sure that the community explores the biggest possible set of future research lines, and that the research base, in discussion with clinical practitioners, then selects those avenues which are the most likely to yield exploitable results. Engaging a wide UK community of researchers in this field and using their expertise as an input determining the direction of future research will ensure that future research funding is used as efficiently as possible and is spent on research lines identified by the community as the most promising. For the wider public, long term benefits will be improved healthcare. In the shorter term (four years), public engagement is an important aspect of network activity, communicating ways in which mathematics can have an impact on everyday life. The benefit to the UK economy of this outreach work will be a future generation of mathematicians inspired by the leading-edge advances of this network, communicated through a variety of media (school events, articles in the popular press, use of the Internet).The participants of the network will gain skills they can use in future projects, or apply elsewhere. For example, all members will be expected to hone their communication skills, and media training will be offered to early career members.
In the short term (4 years) the network primarily benefits UK-based academics working in modelling for healthcare technologies. The immediate objective is to build up a networked community and to strengthen links where they already exist. A second important group of beneficiaries are end-users: clinicians, and healthcare professionals. Network activities will be developed to specifically include members of this group (e.g. at assemblies, and themed events). A crucial aspect of the network is that the advances in mathematical and computational modelling techniques are informed by the needs of healthcare professionals. Contact with the clinical domain will be made through existing links of the investigators (see pathways to impact document), and more importantly the network will exploit other existing contacts of its membership. There can be no doubt that many of the 200 members we anticipate to include will have such contacts in place, and it is an explicit goal of the project to make the most of these in order to deliver a maximal impact.
In the medium to long-term (5-10 years), technical advances arising from collaborations instigated by the network will benefit healthcare industries (for example, in the development of novel treatments, or drug development). The network will kick start collaborations and result in joint grant proposals. These follow-on grants will ultimately lead to the advances just described. On a similar timescale, this research will be useful to policy makers in setting healthcare agendas and priorities. Within twenty years we anticipate that the use of modelling in healthcare will become more widespread, making treatments more targeted, and therefore more beneficial and cost-effective.
The network will help to focus and to channel research efforts in this field, it will make sure that the community explores the biggest possible set of future research lines, and that the research base, in discussion with clinical practitioners, then selects those avenues which are the most likely to yield exploitable results. Engaging a wide UK community of researchers in this field and using their expertise as an input determining the direction of future research will ensure that future research funding is used as efficiently as possible and is spent on research lines identified by the community as the most promising. For the wider public, long term benefits will be improved healthcare. In the shorter term (four years), public engagement is an important aspect of network activity, communicating ways in which mathematics can have an impact on everyday life. The benefit to the UK economy of this outreach work will be a future generation of mathematicians inspired by the leading-edge advances of this network, communicated through a variety of media (school events, articles in the popular press, use of the Internet).The participants of the network will gain skills they can use in future projects, or apply elsewhere. For example, all members will be expected to hone their communication skills, and media training will be offered to early career members.
Organisations
Publications
Beentjes CHL
(2019)
Defining vitamin D status using multi-metabolite mathematical modelling: A pregnancy perspective.
in The Journal of steroid biochemistry and molecular biology
Boileau E
(2015)
A benchmark study of numerical schemes for one-dimensional arterial blood flow modelling.
in International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering
Donadoni F
(2017)
Patient-Specific, Multi-Scale Modeling of Neointimal Hyperplasia in Vein Grafts.
in Frontiers in physiology
Gallagher MT
(2019)
Non-identifiability of parameters for a class of shear-thinning rheological models, with implications for haematological fluid dynamics.
in Journal of biomechanics
Mirams GR
(2016)
Uncertainty and variability in computational and mathematical models of cardiac physiology.
in The Journal of physiology
Wain R
(2019)
Finite Element Predictions of Sutured and Coupled Microarterial Anastomoses
in Advanced Biomedical Engineering
Wain RAJ
(2018)
Influence of microvascular sutures on shear strain rate in realistic pulsatile flow.
in Microvascular research
Description | The aim of this network grant was to stimulate interaction and new collaborations between mathematicians, engineers, and healthcare researchers. Active researchers could become members of the network, and were then eligible to apply for network funding that could pay for workshops and research visits. The aim was therefore achieved by a series of conferences and workshops to promote new interactions and report new findings, incoming and outgoing research visits to initiate new collaborations with overseas partners, and by public engagement activities. |
Exploitation Route | Some of the collaborations arising from Network activity have already resulted in papers and funding proposals, and these are likely to continue. The existing Network membership will persist as a mailing list, and could be used by other networks. |
Sectors | Healthcare Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Description | The purpose of this award was to fund a community of researchers and to stimulate new connections between mathematics and healthcare. Many of the activities funded through the network aimed to build a research community by organising workshops, conferences, and other activities such as Mathematics for Medicine Study Groups. An important outcome is therefore an increase in the number of connections between researchers in different institutions and disciplines, which is evidenced in part through papers and reports produced through the funded activities. Public engagement was another aspect of this award, and several public-facing activities were funded. These included public lectures as well as pop science activities including a science cabaret evening. The combination of maths and medicine is an engaging topic, and these events were well attended by members of the general public. |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Healthcare,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | The South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub |
Amount | £3,211,469 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X03075X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2023 |
End | 08/2026 |
Description | Computational Neurology Conference 2017 (Newcastle) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The workshop gathered researchers and professionals working on clinical research questions and interested in applying the advances in computing and neuroscience to the clinical field for the benefit of patients. The conference comprised of keynote speakers and abstract/poster expositions over two days, to provide provide an opportunity to form new interdisciplinary collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/compneurology/ |
Description | First POEMS workshop: 5-6 September, Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This event was held to communicate the aims of the POEMS network to the membership, to consider some of the scientific questions relevant to the network, and to establish an executive committee who will oversee the disbursement of POEMS funding over the coming 12 months. This event stimulated requests for the POEMS network to fund two further activities; a session at the NARAP Radiation Physics conference in May 2014, and a Maths in Medicine study group held at Cambridge in September 2014. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Maths in Medicine Study Group (Birmingham) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participants worked collaboratively to address a set of problems in the area of mathematics in medicine, which spanned the range from basic science biology, through the mechanism of action of pharmaceuticals, human physiology, and clinical practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/D.Smith/StudyGroup.htm |
Description | Maths in Medicine study group (Cambridge) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Significant progress was made in five problem areas, which spanned the range from basic science biology, through the mechanism of action of pharmaceuticals, human physiology, and clinical practice. Several papers will be written as a result of this activity. The problem proposers, experimental biologists and clinicians, were impressed with the power of a mathematical approach, and this can be expected to influence their future thinking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.maths-in-medicine.org/uk/2014/ |
Description | POEMS funded Science Cabaret |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This was a cabaret-style event to allow researchers to convey their science (in the area of modelling and health) to the general public. The format was short talks: "pecha-kucha" style. This meant that each presenter had 20 images @ 20 seconds each to present their work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/sciencegrrl/cabaret/ |
Description | POEMS funded meeting: Dialogue on Heart Failure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop was the first in a series of focused meetings, co-funded by POEMS and SoftMech (EPSRC Centre for Multiscale Soft Tissue Mechanics). The focus of the workshop was be to bring together multidisciplinary groups (e.g. clinicians, biologists and modellers) and initiate dialogues and collaborations across disciplines, on challenges in relation to the mechanical and physical aspects of heart failure and diseases. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | POEMS funded meeting: Dialogue on cancer |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | This workshop was the second in a series of focused meetings, co-funded by POEMS and SoftMech (EPSRC Centre for Multiscale Soft Tissue Mechanics). The focus of the workshop was be to bring together multidisciplinary groups (e.g. clinicians, biologists and modellers) and initiate dialogues and collaborations across disciplines, on challenges in relation to the mechanical and physical aspects of cancer. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | POEMS funded workshop - Imaging to modelling: Workflows for clinical practice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The workshop aims to bring together engineers, physicists and clinicians to discuss issues of imaging to modelling, and identify clinically relevant problems and opportunities for grant funding. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | POEMS funded workshop on computational modelling and healthy ageing. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The one-day workshop took place at Thornton Science Park on February the 8th 2017. The theme of the event was computational modelling of ageing and health. The workshop was organised by Dr. Mark Mc Auley who is based in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Chester. The workshop brought together an array of experts from fields including, computer science, mathematical modelling, biology, epidemiology, bioinformatics, medicine and nutrition. Seminars featured contributions from leading experts in the mathematical modelling of lipid metabolism, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. Bringing these together leading experts and practitioners together proved an excellent opportunity for networking and the exchange of ideas in the application of mathematical and computational modelling to complex biological problems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | POEMS funded workshop: Biomedical engineering challenges, models and algorithms |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This proposed workshop brought together internationally and national renowned researchers in a wide variety of fields related to medical imaging and healthcare technology, including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, and optics, to discuss what boundaries are being pushed, what research is being done with new technology, what new techniques are being developed and how are they being used, and above all, what the new healthcare technology challenges are in imaging sciences and technologies from clinicians' viewpoints. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | POEMS funded workshop: Mathematical Modelling of Radiation in Cancer Therapy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A 2-day meeting to explore how mathematical modelling can support and be supported by experimental research with the aim of improving cancer care. The meeting also included a talk from Paul McCrory (Learn Differently: http://learn-differently.com/) entitled 'Engaging Engagement', outlining the basic process of public engagement for people doing modelling research in healthcare. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/activities/mathematical-modelling-of-radiation-in-cancer-therapy(b74... |
Description | POEMS funded workshop: Modelling of Skin Absorption - Where Next? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop to explore the success or failure of modelling approaches, particularly the lack of uptake by physical scientists, along with new approaches to modelling and issues with models, including transparency of the output and ease of use in the context of formulation design and drug delivery or clinical studies. One outcome arising from the workshop has been an invitation by the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (produced by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society) to produce and edit a special edition of their journal. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | POEMS funded workshop: Multiscale modelling approaches for gastroinestinal health and disease (Oxford) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A workshop for modellers and experimentalists with a common interest in gastrointestinal function to share their latest work in this area, identify new collaborations, and discuss key challenges inherent in multiscale modelling of the gut, as an archetypal model for quantitative understanding of cell to tissue level function more generally. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | POEMS funded: Focus group on translational research applied to systemic and coronary modelling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop was run to develop benchmark problems for evaluating computer models of blood flow. The outcome was published in an academic paper -- DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2732 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | POEMS funded: Meeting on modelling bystander effects for biomedical and environmental research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop was organised to discuss the effects of unintended exposure of bystanders (people or other organisms) to radiation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | POEMS funded: Workshop on Big Data, Multimodality & Dynamic Models in Biomedical Imaging |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This one day meeting aimed to bring together those working on advances in imaging technology with researchers who investigate new image analysis methods, to help address these challenges. In particular, there was a focus on the following topics: Big data problems and solutions Multimodality Dynamic imaging |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/dmb_mar2016.shtml |
Description | POEMS funded: Workshop on Mathematical Medicine and Mathematical Pharmacology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop focused on mathematical medicine and mathematical pharmacology and brought together together established researchers, early career researchers, PhD students from various disciplines: |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://mathmedworkshop1.wordpress.com |
Description | POEMS funded: Workshop on mathematical optimisation of 3D micro tissue liver systems for drug delivery and toxicity testing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The aim of the workshop was to bring together theoreticians and biologists working on 3D microtissue models for drug testing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | POEMS fundedWorkshop on Error and Uncertainty (Glasgow) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | One day workshop entitled "Computational modeling in healthcare: making confident predictions in a world of error and uncertainty", hosted by the University of Glasgow. The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics, clinicians and industry representatives to stimulate thinking around the issue of error and uncertainty in computational modelling applied to healthcare. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mathematicsstatistics/events/details/?id=9659 |
Description | POEMS outreach: Electricity and the Heart (Institute of Physics, London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An outreach event, aimed at the general public, held at the Institute of Physics. This was an evening event, with two speakers, Professor Peter Kohl and Dr Sabine Ernst. It was attended by around 40 people, who were a mixture of school age students, researchers, and the general public. We are not aware of any notable impacts, although the attendees (largely the general public) indicated that they enjoyed and were stimulated by the evening. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | POEMS support for CIBB2016: Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The main goal of this 13th edition of the CIBB international conference was to provide a multi-disciplinary forum open to researchers interested in the application of computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology and medical informatics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/cibb2016/ |
Description | POEMS support for session at NanoRadiation Processes meeting (Edinburgh) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speakers from different backgrounds and disciplines presented different perspectives on the treatment of cancer with radiation. Scientists from the radiobiological community were exposed to new ideas for modelling arising from mathematics that have not been applied in this area before. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | POEMS workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The aim of this workshop was to discuss recent developments in mathematics and medicine, and to engage new groups and individuals with the POEMS network. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |