RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO) – five-year experience at Moffitt Cancer Center
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.02.27.967950
DO 10.1101/2020.02.27.967950
A1 Enderling, Heiko
A1 Altrock, Philipp M.
A1 Andor, Noemi
A1 Basanta, David
A1 Brown, Joel S.
A1 Gatenby, Robert A.
A1 Marusyk, Andriy
A1 Rejniak, Katarzyna A.
A1 Silva, Ariosto
A1 Anderson, Alexander R.A.
YR 2020
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/02/27/2020.02.27.967950.abstract
AB Modern cancer research, and the wealth of data across multiple spatial and temporal scales, has created the need for researchers that are well-versed in the life sciences (cancer biology, developmental biology, immunology), medical sciences (oncology) and natural sciences (mathematics, physics, engineering, computer sciences). College undergraduate education is traditionally provided in disciplinary silos, which creates a steep learning curve at the graduate and postdoctoral levels that increasingly bridge multiple disciplines. Numerous colleges have begun to embrace interdisciplinary curricula, but students who double-major in mathematics (or other quantitative sciences) and biology (or medicine) remain scarce. We identified the need to educate junior and senior high school students about integrating mathematical and biological skills, through the lens of mathematical oncology, to better prepare students for future careers at the interdisciplinary interface. The High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO) at Moffitt Cancer Center has so far trained 59 students between 2015 and 2019. We report here on the program structure, training deliverables, curriculum, and outcomes. We hope to promote such interdisciplinary educational activities early in a student’s career.