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ISyE News at Georgia Tech (April 1, 2009) Early Detection in Human Cancer

News Releases at Emory University (January 13, 2009): "Rules for Gene Silencing in Cancer Cells Identified" Human cancers from breast and lung have a common pattern of genes vulnerable to silencing by DNA methylation, researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found.

GT News: November 26, 2008 "Researchers discover strategy for predicting the immunity of vaccines" Study reveals how a highly successful vaccine triggers robust immune responses

Science Daily: November 24, 2008 "Strategy For Predicting Immunity Of Vaccines Developed"

2008 INFORMS Honors: "Center NIH Postoctoral Fellow, Kyungduck Cha, received the 2008 George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Honorable Mention"

INFORMS ANNUAL MEETING eNews DAILY: October 14, 2008. "Center Alumni Paul Brooks Wins Monday's Interactive Session"

The Buffalo News: September 22, 2008. "Drive-through vaccination effort a success in Amherst" 1,385 people receive A booster hepatitis,
Eva K. Lee, director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and Healthcare at Georgia Institute of Technology, said Amherst's vaccination exercise was the first drive through event that administered a real vaccine to so many people ...

Media Newswire: August 15, 2008. "Enhancing Disaster and Medical Response"

NEWS ROOM at Georgia Tech: August 5, 2008. "Transforming Health Care on Multiple Fronts".

Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Mass Dispensing Work is profiled in OR/MS Today, Feb 2008. "Doing Good with Good O.R -- O.R.'s Do-Gooders. ``National Biodefense -- In Case of Emergency''"

Dr. Eva Lee Part of $31 M Translational Partnership
Dr. Eva K. Lee is part of a research team that has been awarded more than $31 million dollars over a five year period by Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), a consortium funded by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (September 2007) >> Read More
Edelman Winner 2007 O.R. in the O.R. Saving lives as well as money, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center earns the Edelman with breakthrough modeling and computational techniques for treating prostate cancer.

An interview by Alleen Lee from the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing "A Conversation with Dr. Eva Lee".

INFORMS News: May 1, 2007. "New Prostate Cancer Treatment Wins Operations Research Award for Memorial Sloan-Kettering".

Medical Imaging magazine: January 2007. "The Long and Short of Inverse Planning".

Dr. Eva K. Lee represented the AMS at the 12th annual Exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding(CNSF) held June 7, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., "AMS Sponsors Exhibit on Disease Prediction and Treatment Design at Capitol Hill Exhibition".

Atlanta Business Chronicle: Apr 28, 2006. "Software helps to deal with disaster".

The Whistle: Apr 24, 2006. "Computer program helps governments plan for pandemic". ( pdf file )

RxPG News:Apr 22, 2006. "RealOpt - Computer Program to Halt Pandemics".

The Community News:Aug 4 2005. "Fulton/DeKalb drill simulates anthrax crisis".

ABC TV and News Report: Mar 9 2005. "Technology Improves Prostate Cancer Treatment".

Diagnostic Imaging Magazine: Feb 2005. "Fusion of MR, ultrasound improves tumor target".

IE Magazine:Vol 37(2), Feb 2005. "Emergency Response System for Bioterrorism and Pandemic Diseases".

IIE Solutions: Feb 2005. "New tools help delineate the best response to a worst-case scenario".

State Health Watch: Jan 2005. "Software helps plan infectious illness treatment".

Diagnostic Imaging: Jan 10 2005. "Combined metabolic and therapeutic imaging improves tumor therapy".

The Whitaker Foundation Research Highlights: Dec 1 2004. "Combined Technologies Mean More Targeted Radiation Therapy".

Industrial Engineer magazine: Nov 2004. "Thwarting bioterrorism with simulation, computer program readies healthcare departments for infectious disease outbreaks".

Bioscience Innovations: Oct 2004. "Emergency treatment response for bioterrorism and infectious disease outbreak".

Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science TV news segment (produced by the American Institute of Physics and American Mathematical Society): Oct 2004. "Curing Prostate Cancer". (18 MB video file -- 90-second TV news report broadcast through 2005 by subscribing local TV stations all over the United States. )

Medical Research News: Oct 2004. "Researchers bridge the gap between magnetic resonance spectroscopy and latest techniques for delivering precise doses of radiation to tumors".

PSA Rising: Oct 12 2004. Prostate Cancer Survivor News, Information, and Support, "New system for brachytherapy imaging translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors".

Medical News Today: Oct 2004. "New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors".

ScienceDaily: Oct 2004. "New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors".

Department of Homeland Security IAIP Directorate Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report: Sep 22 2004. "New Computer Program helps Health Departments Halt Outbreaks".

News-mediacl.net: Sep 20 2004. "New computer program helps health departments halt outbreaks".

AScribe: Sep 2004. "Georgia Tech Professor Designs Program to Help States Organize Bioterror Plans; Program Installed in Georgia and to Be Tested by Health Departments in Several States".

Optimizing Radiation Therapy: Software Applies Mathematics and Engineering Principles to Medicine July 7, 2004 "Target and Control Strategies to Battle Cancer".

Atlanta Business Chronicle's Health-Care Quarterly: Feb 2004. "Engineering Meets Biology in Tackling Tumors". (One of the three GT faculty members cited.)

Code Breakers in Cancer Research: Spring 2004 "Code Breaker".

New York Times: February 20, 2001. "Computerized Treatment May Help Prostate Cancer".

London Times: February 23, 2001. "Pinpoint radiation targets cancer of the prostate".

The Cancer Group Institute "Cancer Treatment Adds up".

The OncoLink Cancer News: February 21, 2001. "Brachytherapy for prostate cancer improved by computer model".

Urology Times: May 2001. "Real-time computer planning optimizes seed placement".

Optima (Mathematical Programming Society Newsletter):1999; 61: 1-10, feature article, EK Lee, RJ Gallagher, M Zaider, "Planning implants of radionuclides for the treatment of prostate cancer: an application of mixed integer programming".

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