Angela Jarrett, a postdoctoral researcher working in the Center for Computational Oncology with Professor Thomas Yankeelov, has been selected as a recipient of the 2018 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
The award is supported by the National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities.
Jarrett presented her research, titled “A mathematical-experimental approach for predicting host responses in a preclinical model for trastuzumab-treated HER2+ breast cancer,” at the AACR Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Jarrett's research focuses on developing mathematical models of tumor growth for breast cancer. The primary goal is to build a model that can capture the tumor response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy using patient-specific DW-MRI and DCE-MRI data. Specifically, she has been working on using DCE-MRI data to approximate the delivery and distribution of drugs in the tumor tissue according to individual patients' therapy regimens to improve the model's predictive ability.
Jarett received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Florida State University in mathematics, specializing in biomedical applications.
