WORKSHOP: UK Mathematics-In-Medicine Study Groups 2005-2007

是什么让蛆擅长伤口愈合？实验室中工程化骨组织的最佳实验条件是什么？斑块是如何在血管中形成的，我们能否预测它们何时可能破裂？儿童脊柱弯曲的原因是什么？如何通过手术将其影响降至最低？上述问题说明了数学家团队可以与生物学家和临床医生合作研究的问题类型。这项提议的目的是组织一系列多学科会议（医学中的数学研究小组）和研讨会，数学家、生物学家和临床医生在类似的重要生物医学问题上进行合作。因此，我们希望促进数学建模在重要医学问题上的应用，并确保联合王国在这一迅速发展的领域保持领先地位。

What is it about maggots that makes them good at wound healing? What are the best experimental conditions for engineering bone tissue in the laboratory? How do plaques form in blood vessels and can we predict when they are likely to rupture? What causes curvature of the spine in children and how can surgery be used to minimise its effect?The above questions illustrate the types of problems that can be studied by teams of mathematicians working in partnership with biologists and clinicians. The aim of this proposal is to organise a series of multidisciplinary meetings (mathematics-in-medicine study groups) and workshops at which mathematicians, biologists and clinicians collaborate on similar important biomedical problems. As a result we hope to promote the application of mathematical modelling to issues of medical importance and to ensure that the UK maintains a leading role in this rapidly developing field.