Anna Konstorum recently had a first-author publication in the Journal of Theoretical Biology on modeling HGF/c-Met signaling in the tumor microenvironment.
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Medication Reconciliation Hackathon, April 5th & 6th 2019The Office of Health Strategy Medication Reconciliation Hackathon Presented by UConn Health. This event will be held at UConn Health on Friday April 5th & Saturday 6th 2019 from 8am-5pm. Hackathon Target Participants: • Prescribing clinicians • Pharmacists • Analysts • Informaticians • Software engineers • Developers & Programmers • Students in medicine, pharmacy, & […]
Dr. Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil has been invited to give a talkDr. Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil has been invited to give a talk at the 34th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity on March 4 & 5, 2019. To learn more about this event, please visit bit.ly/PacRim1422
New $3M NIH Grant Targets Respiratory Infection with Math. ModelingNo one is ever pleasantly surprised to find mold growing on food that has been left in the fridge too long. But everyday there is plenty of mold around us that we don’t see, including hundreds of spores of some types of invisible mold that we unknowingly inhale. While this probably sounds pretty alarming and […]
Ovarian Cancer Cells Hoard Iron to Fuel GrowthCancer cells tend to hoard iron, and ovarian cancer cells in particular. They take in more iron than normal cells, and they release less of it. UConn Health postdoctoral fellow in computational biology Anna Konstorum, director of the Center for Quantitative Medicine Reinhard Laubenbacher, and their colleagues wondered why. Perhaps cancer cells’ iron habit was a weakness […]