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The Cancer Modelling Group is part of the CRM Computational & Mathematical Biology Our group is also part of the DysCoVir I2SysBio-CRM Associated Unit. Current members are:

Research Fellows & Postdocs.

- Ielyaas Clote (Mathematical modelling of the BCL-2 family)

- Daria Stepanova (Mathematical modelling of epigenetic regulation and chromatin structure, in collaboration with Helen Byrne, University of Oxford, and Josep Sardanyes, CRM)

PhD Students.

- Juan Arellano-Tintó (Mathematical modelling of the effects of mechanical cues on anastomosis, co-supervised by Daria Stepanova, CRM, and in collaboration with Helen M. Byrne and Philip K. Maini, University of Oxford)

- Stefano Pedarra (Mathematical modelling of immunotherapy, co-spervised by Josep Sardanyes, CRM, in collaboration with Javier Menendez, ICO-IDIBGI)

- Amaia Vielba-Trillo (Mathematical modelling of cancer therapy by oncolytic viruses, co-supervised by Josep Sardanyes, CRM)

Industrial Doctorate Students.

- Lourdes Mendez (Co-supervised by Aurora Hernandez-Machado, Universitat de Barcelona)

MSc Students, project students & Internships.

- Juan Bendito (MSc student, Mathematical modelling of nanoparticle infiltration in tumour spheroids, in collaboration with Philip Maini, Oxford, and Gillian Pearce, Birmingham)

CRM Research collaborators.

- Aurora Hernandez-Machado (School of Physics, Universitat de Barcelona)

Former members (and their last known whereabouts).

- Pilar Guerrero (Former postdoc, after six years as a postdoc at University College London working with Karen Page and James Briscoe, she is now an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

- Roger Domingo-Roca (Former intern student, currently doing a PhD in Strathclyde University, UK)

- Miquel Raich (Former MSc student, as far as I now, he never finished his MSc thesis. Never heard from him again)

- Daniel Sanchez-Taltavull (Former PhD student, formerly a postdoc in the Ottawa Hospital Research Instititute, Canada, currently holds a postdoc position in the University of Bern, Switzerland)

- Esther Ibanez-Marcelo (Former PhD student, after taking a sabbatical, as of April 2016, she is a postdoc at ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy, working with Giovanni Petri. She is also fighting the good fight (one of them anyway))

- Juan Calvo (Former postdoc, currently at the Universidad de Granada as an assistant (tenure-track) professor)

- Ivon Rodriguez-Villarreal (Former postdoc, experimental microrheology of bio-fluids, currently associated professor at the School of Physics, University of Barcelona)

- Claudia Trejo-Soto (Former research collaborator, currently an assistant professor in Pontificia Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)

- Enric Costa-Miracle (Former PhD student, Mathematical modelling in microfluidics, co-supervised by Aurora Hernández-Machado, School of Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, resigned his PhD scholarship to look for a job outside academia)

- Carles Raich Bros (Former intern student, Faculty of Mathematics, Universitat de Barcelona. After graduating in Mathematics at Universitat de Barcelona, he is now pursuing a degree in Medicine)

- Roberto de la Cruz (Former PhD student, Stochastic multi-scale modelling of tumour growth, co-supervised by Pilar Guerrero, Dep. Mathematics, University College London, UK, formerly a postdoc with Jan Ulrich Kreft at the School of BioSciences of the University of Birmingham, UK, now, a postdoc at the Zampieri Group, ETH Zuricj)

- Andreu Arderiu (Former intern student, Maths-Physics double degree, he went as an Erasmus in Durham, UK, and now he is back with us to complete his mathematics graduate project)

- Roberto Franco (Fromer BGSMath Internship, currenlly back to UNAM  to complete his undergraduate degree)

- Louisiane Lemaire (Former MSc student, currently in University of Nice, where she is doing a PhD in Neuroscience)

- Josep Sardanyes (Former postdoc, currently a Ramon y Cajal Fellow and  Group Leader at the Centre de Recerca Matematica)

- Nuria Folguera-Blasco (Former PhD student, she is currently a postdoc at the Crick Institute, London, UK, in the group of Silvia Santos)

- Ruth Kritianingsih (Former MSc student, co-supervised by Josep Sardanyes, she is currently doing an internship at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)

- Elisa Beltran-Saez (Former PhD student, currently taking some well-deserved time off after finishing her PhD)

- Andreu Arderiu (Former graduate project student, currently doing a MSc in Applied Mathematics at EPFL, Laussane, Switzerland) 

- Alejandra de Lara (Former summer intern, currently on an Erasmus in Leiden, Holland)

- Laia Domingo (Former graduate project student, currently doing a MSc in Data Science at the University of Barcelona)

- Sara Martinez (Former graduate project student, currently doing a MSc in Modelling for Science and Engineering at the Autonomous University of Barcelona)

- Samantha Serra (Former industrial doctorate student)

- Victoria Ponce (Former PhD student, she is now a postdoc at the Systems Biomedicine group, University of Heidelberg)

- Sara Martinez (Former MSc student, Mathematical modelling of complex blood rheology, co-spervised by Aurora Hernandez-Machado, Universitat de Barcelona)

- Elisabet Roda (Former undergraduate student, Mathematical modelling of oncovirus, co-supervised by Josep Sardanyes, NoDE Lab, CRM)

- Fernando Davo (Former undergraduate student, Analysis of mixing dynamics in angiogenic sprouting, co-supervised by Daria Stepanova, Cancer Modelling Group, CRM)

- Meritxell Brunet Guasch (Former undergraduate student, co-supervised by Daria Stepanova, Cancer Modelling Group, CRM, currently doing a MSc in applied mathematics in the Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

- Daria Stepanova (Former PhD student, currently a postdoc at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc)

- Giovanni Dalmasso (Mathematical modelling of vascular network morphonesis in limb development, in collaboration with James Sharpe, EMBL-Barcelona and Helen Byrne, University of Oxford)

- Simon Syga, visiting PhD student, DresdenTechnical University

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