Congratulations to Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers, who have been awarded a two-year, $800,000 grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop a new approach that leverages advanced computational models to revolutionize early diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic interventions for lung cancer.

The project is co-led by Marek Kimmel, a professor of statistics at Rice University, and Olga Yurievna Gorlova, an associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Together, their work will allow clinicians to track the incredibly complex, shifting mutational landscape of individual lung tumors, giving them the predictive power to anticipate how a patient’s disease will progress, respond to treatment, or potentially recur.