Developing Physical Theories on the Emergence of Drug and Immune Resistance in Cancer in Arlington, VA; November 13-14, 2012.

为期两天的工作坊：“发展癌症药物和免疫耐药性出现的物理理论”将是一个为期两天的高度集中的会议，汇集了对耐药性理论和新的测量技术感兴趣的肿瘤学家和物理学家，这些技术将用于指导任何拟议的概念框架。会议的目标是确定问题的范围，向物理学家介绍肿瘤学界可用的数据，并制定前进的方法。物理科学家和肿瘤临床医生小组将制定一个路线图，探索探索癌症病因学的新途径，特别是耐药癌症。至少，这次会议将有助于促进传统上很少交流的研究科学家之间的讨论，更不用说使用相同的语言和/或时间/空间尺度。其目的是会议将导致：a）理论家和医学实验学家之间的新的研究伙伴关系，和/或一个普遍的共识，推动更多的基础肿瘤学研究与嵌入式理论建模和模拟。后者将加速对癌症病因学和可能的治疗方案的更详细的理解。

The two day Workshop: "Developing Physical Theories on the Emergence of Drug and Immune Resistance in Cancer" will be a two-day highly-focused meeting bringing together oncologists and physicists with interests in both the theory of resistance and in novel measurement technology that would be used to guide any proposed conceptual framework. The goal of the meeting would be to define the scope of the problem, to present to the physicists the data that is available in the oncology community and to formulate an approach to move forward. The panel of physical scientists and oncological clinicians will develop a road map for probing new avenues towards the exploration of cancer etiology, especially drug-resistant cancers. At the very least, this meeting will serve to catalyze discussions between research scientists who traditionally very seldom communicate, and much less with the same language and/or temporal/spatial scale. The intention is that the meeting will result in; a) new research partnerships between theorists and medical experimentalists, and/or a general consensus that drives more basic oncological research with embedded theoretical modeling and simulation. The later will hasten a more detailed understanding of cancer etiology and perhaps treatment regimes.