Experimentation in critical fields such as heart attack, cancer, brain tumour and stem cells has enabled our knowledge of the human body and its inner workings to increase dramatically during the 20th and 21st centuries, allowing us to live longer than ever before.
Looking to the future, could we increase the pace of medical advances? Could we test possible treatments quickly and cheaply, whilst reducing experimental waste? Could we even identify the most important experiments we need to perform before even putting on a lab coat?
Mathematical modelling has the potential not only to meet these requirements but also to do so much more.
Oxford Mathematicians and Computer Scientists Dr Thomas Woolley, Dr Gary Mirams and Prof. Helen Byrne will be discussing their applications of mathematics and computer science to the pressing medical problems of the 21st Century at the British Science Festival this September in Birmingham, on Wednesday 10th September at 1pm.