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Insights into biological problems stemming from PDE models, a special collection in honor of Avner Friedman

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This is a collection of articles on applications of partial differential equations and dynamical systems to important problems in biology.

Editors

  • Hans Othmer Hans Othmer , 

    Hans Othmer

    Mathematician in the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. Formerly taught at Rutgers University and the University of Utah. Research interests focus on biochemical and mechanical aspects of cell motility and on understanding complex signal transduction and gene control networks. Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Humboldt Foundation, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

  • Urszula Ledzewicz Urszula Ledzewicz , 

    Urszula Ledzewicz

    Urszula Ledzewicz received her Ph. D in 1984 at the University of Lodz, Poland. She spent most of her professional career at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where she retired in 2015 at the rank of Distinguished Research Professor. Currently she holds a position of a research professor at Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Her research interests include optimal control, optimization, and applications of these fields in mathematical biology, particularly to modeling and optimization of cancer therapies. She is an Associate Editor in numerous journals, both in the fields of optimization and mathematical biology including JOMB.

  • Yuan Lou Yuan Lou  &

    Yuan Lou

    Dr. Yuan Lou received his Ph.D from University of Minnesota in 1995. He was a postdoc at MSRI (1995-1996) and Dickson Instructor at University of Chicago (1996-1998). Since 1998, he has been a faculty member at Ohio State University. Since 2021 he has been a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Dr. Lou's research interest is reaction-diffusion equations with applications to biology. He served as Associate Director of Mathematical Biosciences Institute (2009-2013). Currently he is serving as Co Editor-in-Chief of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B and in several editorial boards, including JMB.

  • Philip K. Maini Philip K. Maini

    Philip K. Maini

    Philip Maini received his DPhil from Oxford in 1985, under the supervision of J.D. Murray FRS. His first faculty position was at the University of Utah, from where he moved back to Oxford in 1990. He is Director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, and the Inaugural Statutory Professor of Mathematical Biology. His research focusses on the mathematical modelling of mechanistic processes in developmental biology, solid tumour growth and cancer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Society for Mathematical Biology.

Articles (15 in this collection)