{"68745":{"#nid":"68745","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Horizons Features ISyE Professors and their Contributions to Cancer Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research News \u0026amp; Publications Office\nhas published a special compilation of cancer research articles previously\npublished in issues of \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine.\u0026nbsp; This publication, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Georgia-Tech-CancerPublication-2011.pdf\u0022\u003EInnovations in Cancer\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Ehighlights the work and contributions of\nGeorgia Tech scientists and engineers, including three professors from the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Shabbir\nAhmed, Eva Lee and Ming Yuan.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE associate professor Shabbir Ahmed works on improving\nintensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment plans to minimize damage to\ncritical organs.\u0026nbsp; His work is featured on\npages 19 and 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPrevious models would produce one treatment plan in an\nhour and then if it was not exactly what the clinician wanted, someone would\nhave to change the requirements and rerun the program to create a new treatment\nplan,\u201d explained Ahmed.\u0026nbsp; \u201cOur program\nproduces several optimized solutions in a fraction of the time.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEva Lee, an ISyE associate professor, is contributing to\nthe area of cancer treatment by addressing motion issues for certain organs\nwithin the body and incorporating biological information into treatment\nplanning.\u0026nbsp; Her work is featured on page\n21.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAccounting for motion in the image-guided treatment\nplanning dramatically improves under-dosing the tumor tissue and even reduces\nthe dose to normal tissue and critical organs,\u201d said Lee. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan, ISyE associate professor and Georgia Cancer\nCoalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, is using computational and mathematical\napproaches to analyze how gene expression evolves over time in individuals with\nbreast cancer.\u0026nbsp; His work is featured on\npage 26.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to know which genes are abnormally expressed\nover time and behave differently than the majority of genes because that would\nmake them likely drug targets,\u201d said Yuan. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons\u003C\/em\u003E\nmagazine is published three times a year to communicate the results of research\nconducted at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; The magazine\nis published by the Research News \u0026amp; Publications Office, and supported by\nthe Executive Vice President for Research and the Georgia Tech Research\nInstitute.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Research News \u0026amp; Publications Office\nhas published a special compilation of cancer research articles previously\npublished in issues of \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine.\u0026nbsp; This publication, \u003Cem\u003EInnovations in Cancer, \u003C\/em\u003Ehighlights the work and contributions of\nGeorgia Tech scientists and engineers, including three professors from the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Shabbir\nAhmed, Eva Lee and Ming Yuan.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-07-08 16:52:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68751":{"id":"68751","type":"image","title":"Cancer Research","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"Cancer Research","file":{"fid":"192655","name":"georgia_tech-cancerpublication-cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgia_tech-cancerpublication-cover_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgia_tech-cancerpublication-cover_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":337993,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/georgia_tech-cancerpublication-cover_0.jpg?itok=SLoSwc9r"}}},"media_ids":["68751"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"280","name":"Cancer research"},{"id":"1043","name":"eva lee"},{"id":"10957","name":"Health and Humanitarian Logistcis"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"6107","name":"Ming Yuan"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"169661","name":"Shabbir Ahmed"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}