“This week in Mathematical Oncology” — Feb 6, 2026

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Today I’d like to draw your attention to an exciting new initiative the Mathematical Immunobiology Newsletter! Click below to read & subscribe the first issue, by Azade Beigmohammadi, Montana Ferita, and Tin Phan.

SMB Mathematical Immunobiology Newsletter

Inaugural Issue (Volume 1, Issue 1 - Feb 4, 2026)

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Mathematical Immunology Newsletter, where we share fresh ideas, tools, and insights at the intersection of math and immunology. A big shoutout to our folks at This Week in MathOnco (Jeffrey West, Franco Pradelli, and Max Strobl) for helping us setting this up…

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Jeffrey West
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1. Life History Enlightened Therapies: Cell Cycle Mapping to Identify Molecular Targets to Prevent Hepatocellular Carcinoma

   Anuraag Bukkuri , Janet McLaughlin , Andrew W Duncan , Wayne Stallaert

2. The Challenges Discovering the Mechanisms Underlying Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia From Clinical Data

   Zuzanna Nowicka, Clemens Grassberger, Chris Beekman

3. Navigating the Challenges of Metallopharmaceutical Agents: Strategies and Predictive Modeling for Skin Cancer Therapy
   Fernanda van Petten Vasconcelos Azevedo, Ana Lúcia Tasca Gois Ruiz, Diego Samuel Rodrigues, …, Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, Camilla Abbehausen, Pedro Paulo Corbi, Carmen Silvia Passos Lima

4. Complementary prognostic value of hotspot-to-centroid distance (NHOCpeak) to SUVpeak in high-grade glioma
   Jesús J. Bosque, David Molina-García, Julián Pérez-Beteta, Ana M. García Vicente & Víctor M. Pérez-García

5. Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks
   Xiangyi Meng, Benjamin Piazza, Csaba Both, Baruch Barzel & Albert-László Barabási

6. The future of mathematical oncology in the age of AI
   Russell C. Rockne, Morten Andersen, Alexander R. A. Anderson, David Basanta, …, Lara Schmalenstroer, Juan Soler, Cristian Tomasetti & Konstancja Urbaniak

7. Gene regulatory network inference with popInfer reveals the dynamic regulation of hematopoietic stem cell quiescence
   Megan K. Rommelfanger, Marthe Behrends, Yulin Chen, …, Zijin Xiang, K. Lenhard Rudolph, Adam L. MacLean

1. Identifying Therapeutic Targets for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer using a Novel Mathematical Model of the Tumor Microenvironment
   Kyle Adams, Julia Bruner, Salma Ameziane, Ashley Brown, Mohammed Gbadamosi, Helen Moore

1. The Mathematical Immunology Newsletter
   Azade Beigmohammadi, Montana Ferita, Tin Phan: “Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Mathematical Immunology Newsletter, where we share fresh ideas, tools, and insights at the intersection of math and immunology.”

The newsletter now has a dedicated homepage where we post the cover artwork for each issue, curated by Maximilian Strobl, Sarah Groves, and Veronika Hofmann. We encourage submissions that coincide with the release of a recent paper from your group. This week’s artwork:

Based on the preprint: Calcium Signalling in Glioblastoma Networks of Different Topologies and Possible Treatments available at SSRN

Artist: Alexandra Shyntar (PhD student at the University of Alberta)

Caption: The image is showing an artistic representation of a glioblastoma calcium signalling network superposed on two brains. The yellow circles represent the glioblastoma cells and the pink lines represent the tumor microtubes that link cells together. The left image of the brain is showing the three cells initiating the calcium signal (represented by pink glow) and the right image is showing the signal propagation. The initiating cells in the left brain can be interpreted as periodic cells, which are cells that can initiate calcium transients in other cells. The artwork was created in Powerpoint with no external AI tools but did use a royalty free brain schematic as a guide for the brain outline.

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