Mathematics of cancer metabolism

Normal cells obtain their energy by oxidation of glucose. Cancer cells use a less efficient way instead: glycolysis, even in the presence of oxygen. Although inefficient, this provides biomass for the synthesis of new cells. However, tumors are intricate metabolic entities with a variety of nutrients and oxygen being used in different possible ways and with a complex interplay of many tumor cell subpopulations (and normal cells). We use mathematical models to better understand the interplay of the different nutrients, cellular pathways, and tumor cell subpopulations to find vulnerabilities in cancer cells.

Publications

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Projects

Collaborators

Mathematical modeling of tumour metabolism will be developed in collaboration with Philip Maini (University of Oxford, UK). Ana M. García Vicente, head of the Nuclear Medicine Unit Hospital General Universitario de Toledo will advise us with everything related to metabolic PET imaging.